Teach Through Music embodies the ethos of music as the dominant language of the classroom and teachers and pupils behaving as musicians, being empowered through creative ownership.
Inspire Events
Taking the form of seminars, conferences and networking, Inspire Events offer teachers and the wider music education community the chance to come together and share best practice and research around burning issues. Inspire Events offer a platform for provocation, discussion and networking as well as further musical experiences. Our series of Inspire Events has now come to a close.
Preparing all pupils for Key Stage 4
Living Room, City Hall
Wednesday 12 November 2014, 4.30pm-7.30pm
This twilight session will focus on how you can develop strategies to support all KS3 pupils to achieve the next steps in their musical learning. It will highlight recent work around musical progression, opportunities for young people in the capital and the implications of changes to GCSE Music.
This event is now CLOSED. You can view a Storify summary of the event made up of Tweets and photos here.
Principles of musical assessment
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Tuesday 25 November 2014, 5.00pm-8.00pm
This twilight session will offer a forum for debate and sharing of approaches to assessment and progression. Teachers will be invited to explore new assessment and progression models including a framework devised by Dr Alison Daubney (University of Sussex) and Professor Martin Fautley (Birmingham City University).
This event is now CLOSED. You can view a Storify summary of the event made up of Tweets and photos here.
Click here to download Martin and Ally’s PowerPoint presentation slides.
Below is video footage (in two parts) of the session:
London’s cultural offer
Southbank Centre
Monday 2 February 2015, 9.30am-4.30pm
This one-day event will bring together individuals and organisations to explore how teachers can enrich the new KS3 music curriculum through engagement with London’s world-class music offer. There will be opportunities to hear from both teachers and pupils on how projects have enhanced and supported learning, as well as a chance to meet and network with a range of music organisations and cultural venues in a ‘Cultural Organisations Marketplace’. These cultural organisations will be keen to hear from teachers as to how how they can better support Key Stage 3 music in London.
This event is now CLOSED. You can view a Storify summary of the event made up of Tweets and photos here.
Making the case for music in schools
Barbican Centre
Wednesday 18 March 2015, 9.30am-4.10pm
Now, more than ever, teachers need to be advocates and champions for music in schools. This one-day symposium will bring together head teachers, school music teachers and key campaigners to debate and exchange ideas. Best practice will be shared across schools through open discussion and the presentation of case studies. The event will also focus on how Music Hubs and cultural organisations can support teachers to creatively promote excellent musical learning to senior leadership, governors, parents and policy makers alike.
This event is now CLOSED. You can view a Storify summary of the event made up of Tweets and photos here.
Resources (click on the links to download):
- Amy Haynes’ PowerPoint presentation on music in Lister Community School, Newham
- Karen Brock’s PowerPoint presentation on SMEP and Hubs and notes to accompany Karen’s presentation
- Chris Philpott’s five minute provocation
- Professor Susan Hallam’s report the Power of Music – executive summary, and full report
- Gary Spruce’s five minute provocation
- Turino’s Categorisations of Musical Practices (mentioned in Gary Spruce’s provocation)
- Handout from Mark Phillips’ presentation, ‘Ofsted Inspections: Clarifications for Schools’ (link to website)
Watch the film that Peter Romhany (Head of Music at Morpeth School) showed in his workshop: Raising Aspirations Through Collaborative Partnership…
Raising musical standards for all at Key Stage 3
Royal Academy of Music
Wednesday 13 May 2015, 5.30pm-8.30pm
Practical and useful solutions in supporting every child in your classroom. A number of related topics will be covered including engaging less motivated learners and designing schemes of work that engage different pupils’ needs and musical experience. This twilight event will focus on exemplary practice in London schools and include opportunities to network, share and learn with other KS3 teachers. This event is curated by Rob Wells.
This event is now CLOSED. You can view a Storify summary of the event made up of Tweets and photos here.
Principles of musical assessment
Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich
Tuesday 16 June 2015, 5.00pm-8.00pm
This twilight session will offer a forum for debate and sharing of approaches to assessment and progression. Teachers will be invited to explore new assessment and progression models including a framework devised by Dr Alison Daubney (University of Sussex) and Professor Martin Fautley (Birmingham City University).
Teacher feedback from November’s seminar:
“We are undergoing a departmental review of levels and assessment in music as a consequence of the seminar.”
“We’re in the process of re-designing Key Stage 3 assessment across the school at the moment, and I’ve been acting on the whole-school working party. The Inspire Event gave me a lot of ideas to take forward to our working party meetings, and gave me some good ideas for principles of assessment on which to build our new assessment frameworks.”
This event is now CLOSED.
Click here to download Martin and Ally’s PowerPoint presentation slides.
For a complete refresher – scroll up to watch a video recording of November 2014’s session!
Final conference
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Laban Building
Friday 10 July 2015, 9.30am-5.00pm
This will be the culmination of the Teach Through Music programme, and will feature inspiring speeches, case studies encompassing the work of participating KS3 music teachers throughout the programme, musical performances, and a celebration of best practice in music education.
This event is now CLOSED.
Click here to view a Storify summary of the event made up of Tweets and photos.
