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Autumn 2014 Newsletter
Issue 07
Autumn term news from the North Yorkshire Music HubWelcome to the first Music Hub newsletter of this new academic year. Please check out the calendar for future events and enjoy reading about last year’s music making successes across the county.
Supported using public funding by
About the HubThe North Yorkshire Music Hub was set up in early 2012 and works in partnership with local and national arts programmes and organisations. Its objective is to deliver the government’s commitment to improving the quality of local music services and our performance is monitored by Arts Council England.
There are great opportunities to be part of the Hub and this edition contains information about how and when you can get involved in music making across the county.
Music Hub INSET Calendar included in this newsletter.
Seven hundred performers led by Cathy Roberts took up the stage, the choral risers and the whole of Level 2 at The Sage Gateshead for the Breaking Through grand finale - see story on page 15.
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Big Sing gets really big 3,000 North Yorkshire children celebrated the arrival of the world’s largest annual sporting event by raising their voices to welcome the Grand Départ of the Tour de France at the end of the summer term.
The Really Big Sing took place in June at Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre, the largest open-air theatre in Europe as part of the Yorkshire Festival 2014, the first arts festival to precede the Grand Départ in its 111-year history. Nearly 50 events were selected to be officially part of Yorkshire Festival 2014, which also included hundreds of fringe events.
The county council led the project, in partnership with the independent arts agency Create and Scarborough Borough Council. It saw 3,000 children come together to sing songs in praise of the bicycle and on the theme of cycling, wheels and transport. The singers were accompanied by a rock band of secondary school musicians.
Cathy Roberts, the county council’s creative and performing arts adviser, who trained teachers from over 50 of the county’s school to rehearse the
songs with their students said it was a fantastic opportunity for schools to come together: “We were very lucky to get the funding to hold the event and it was very exciting. Not only did thousands of children have lots of fun singing together, but it provided a chance for young people in our schools and colleges to create art work for the digital screens during the performance.”
Wendy Holroyd, director of Create, said: “We were delighted to be working with the county council and all the schools for this Really Big Sing and are very proud to be been part of the Yorkshire Festival leading up to the Tour de France in Yorkshire.”
Two of the songs, The Man Who Didn’t Invent the Wheel and Speed, were written for the occasion by Alan Simmons and Jan Holdstock respectively. The other five were the Yorkshire Festival song, The Big Wide by Hope and Social; High Aspirations by Alan Simmons; We Are The Champions by Queen; Chattanooga Choo Choo and a Tour de France Rap composed by Cathy Roberts.
Cathy rehearsing with teachers
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Black Dyke magic captivates young playersThirty eight players of all ages were lucky enough to take part in a brass workshop at Easingwold’s Galtres Centre in June, tutored by Richard Marshall, principal cornet with the famous Black Dyke Band.
Organised by Easingwold Town Band, with financial support from Music For All (the charitable arm of the Music Industries Association) and the Beckwith Trust, the event attracted players ranging in age from eight to 75. They came from brass bands and schools in Easingwold, York, Kirkbymoorside, Pickering and Thirsk and as far away as Reeth and Bridlington.
In the morning masterclass Richard’s warm and engaging manner soon had the participants under his spell as he took them through the basics of playing technique . He then demonstrated his own astonishing ability on the cornet, accompanied by Malcolm Maddock on piano.
In the afternoon, assistant tutors Jeanette Kendall and Bill Ferrier joined Richard in taking group rehearsals, augmented by members of Easingwold Town Band. Putting into practice what they had learned in the morning, the players rose to Richard’s challenge, giving a final concert performance for parents and friends.
There was even an impromptu addition of a short piece conducted by twelve-year-old euphonium player Mark Thacker from Easingwold Training Band.
Easingwold Town Band’s chairman Bill Cleghorn said: “Our first venture in this direction seems to have worked well for everyone, Richard has inspired all of us to raise our musical game, it’s been a lot of fun too, and the Galtres Centre is such a great venue. We’ll have to think seriously about doing it again.”
Stop press…Following on from the Workshop, ETB’s planning to re-launch its small training band as Easingwold Brass Beginners’ Club. Key to the project will be finding a young brass teacher - perhaps a music student at a local university or college - interested in earning some money while gaining useful teaching experience. For more information contact Bill Cleghorn: [email protected], mobile 07770 721937.
Parents’ comments confirmed that the workshop had lived up to the participants’ expectations: “What a fantastic day! My son came away buzzing with enthusiasm.” “My daughter had a wonderful day and is completely inspired.”
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Re-organisation of the Music ServiceNorth Yorkshire County Council intends to re-organise the Music Service with effect from the start of summer term 2015. A consultation is running until 1 November 2014.
BackgroundNYCC agreed to review the Music Service in 2011 following the withdrawal of local authority funding (totalling £480K) for the service. At that time, savings were agreed through the discontinuation of transport to Music Centres and changes to fees and remissions. Further savings were also made through a reduction in the management team.
NYCC Executive Members agreed that the full savings could be deferred, as central funding from Government was uncertain due to the commissioning of the Henley Report and the development of the National Plan for Music Education. The eventual bidding process and grant allocation funding formula resulted in NYCC Music Service also suffering an additional funding cut of £220K, increased to £250K in February 2014. With a further £70 million of savings needing to be found across the council by 2020, the service has now been charged with meeting its savings by April 2015.
Overview of Proposed ChangesThe proposal has been developed taking into account North Yorkshire’s desire to maintain a high quality music education hub, analysis of other delivery models run by local authority music services and by other music hubs and the recommendations set out in Ofsted’s “What Hubs Must Do Next” report.
The review takes into account what is affordable and sustainable (based on current funding agreements) to allow the service to continue to offer an effective service to parents and schools, to meet the requirements of Arts Council England and Ofsted that secure central funding.
All roles, including the management team will, to varying degrees, see changes to job descriptions. The proposed structure is designed to meet the new requirements made of the Music Service as
Lead Organisation in the North Yorkshire Music Education Hub, by both Arts Council and Ofsted.
Principally it will see the creation of a new Core Team of qualified teachers whose main role will be to support schools in the development of their own music curriculums, teach whole class instrumental lessons closely linked to the new music curriculum and work with schools where music is deemed to be weak. They will play an important role in developing networks and links to other agencies and professionals, all working as part of the North Yorkshire Music Hub. They will work to the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set out in the Hub’s Schools Plan, which will be revised annually as part of the Hub’s self-evaluation process. The work of this team will be supplemented by the Music Centre Managers, whose role will help to build capacity in this area.
Traditional instrumental teaching and small group work will be undertaken by the Instrumental Team, working as instructors on a reduced working year of 33 weeks. This team will also still be able to provide ensemble opportunities for pupils as bought in time by schools, but will not be involved in the curriculum development side of the services offer other than to support GCSE and A Level performance work as part of a normal instrumental lesson.
Music Centre instructors will be contracted to work 30 weeks per year. This relates to the 30 sessions currently delivered. Any extra sessions undertaken outside of these sessions such as community events and school fetes will be agreed by Music Centre Managers.
The Bridge that RockedAs part of the run up to the Tour de France Grand Départ, the Bridge Band had the chance to perform in something a little bit different to normal.
The Bridge Band is a combination of pupils from St. Cuthberts, Dacre Braithwaite and Fountains Earth, Lofthouse Primary Schools which are all in the Pateley Bridge area, as well as pupils from Nidderdale High School. They are part of the ‘Wider Opportunities’ initiative, learning music as a whole class.
In June they were invited to join the rock band, ‘Hope and Social’ who were touring the county, covering all the places on the Tour de France route, putting on shows in each town in an event called ‘The tour of infinite possibilities’.
The band joined Hope and Social in Ripon market square and joined in to play numbers they’d written, adapted specially for the tour. Hope and Social inspired the band and created a thoroughly enjoyable and well attended event which the pupils loved being part of.
Rocking in Ripon
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Order County Music services online with SmartSolutions SmartSolutions is a ‘one stop shop’ where you can get a quote for or buy any of the services on offer from North Yorkshire County Council, including packages from the County Music Service.
The core music service package is available to all local authority maintained schools, and you can now buy your additional music services, or bespoke services online from northyorks.gov.uk/smartsolutions
These include:
• whole class instrumental tuition
• bought in time to support extra-curricular activities
• large group tuition (groups of eight)
• continual professional development for school based music teachers
• instrument hire
If you are a North Yorkshire school and want to sign up for any of the above at any time during the academic year, please visit the website or contact your SmartSolutions relationship manager. You can also talk directly to the Music Service, see the back cover of this newsletter for contact details.
If your school buys into the Education and Skills Service Level Agreement, you are also eligible for one free place at the Primary and Secondary Music Network for your area - please see pages 8 and 9 of this newsletter for dates and locations.
You can contact the SmartSolutions support unit team on 01609 533 222 (lines are open 8.30am - 5.00pm Monday to Thursday, 8.30am - 4.30pm on Friday) or email [email protected]
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NYMAZ SEND Music Network GatheringNYMAZ is delighted to be holding another SEND Music Network Gathering in
Northallerton on 7 October, after the success of last
year’s popular event.
The gathering will be perfect for special school teachers, SENCOs, music
leaders and other SEND practitioners with
an interest in music. The event will offer inspirational speakers and practical workshops, such as:
• how you can accredit the musical progress of children with SEND using Arts Award;
• an introduction to accessible iPad apps;
• strategies for including a range of learning needs within a music session;
There will also be the opportunity for delegates to try out innovative music equipment and resources from colleagues in the sector, and of course the chance to network with other like-minded professionals from across the county.
The event will take place on Tuesday 7 October 2014, 1pm – 4.30pm at The Forum, Northallerton.
Tickets are £10 for Network members (£15 non-members), and can be booked via the NYMAZ website: www.nymaz.org.uk/our-networks.
The NYMAZ SEND Music Network is funded by Youth Music as part of the Musical Inclusion programme for North Yorkshire. Membership of the Network is free.
Creative Industries Unmasked: updateCreative Industries Unmasked will not be taking place on 11 November at Pavilions of Harrogate as announced in the previous Music Hub newsletter, please look out instead for Creative Industries Unmasked: On Tour taking place in North Yorkshire in Spring 2015. Further details will be announced in due course.
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New music research project for North YorkshireNYMAZ has been awarded a grant by the Digital Research and Development Fund for the Arts for an innovative music education research project working in seven North Yorkshire primary schools in 2014/15.
Working with the North Yorkshire Music Hub, research partner University of Hull and technology partner UCan Play, the project will be testing the use of video-streaming technologies to provide music education for children living in rural areas. The project will examine the effectiveness of video streaming in enabling children’s’ musical progression, ensuring quality of delivery, cost-effectiveness and access to new live music performances for primary schools via video link-up.
Using Roland VR-3EX technology as a starting point - a portable audio and video mixer that enables multiple images and audio to be streamed at the same time, presenting different angles - we will trial
delivery of the following music education roles via video streaming: instrumental tuition; high-profile live music performances – which will be open for all North Yorkshire schools to access; and staff training. To keep up-to-date with progress of the project, please visit www.nymaz.org.uk
The Digital R&D fund for the Arts is a £7 million fund to support collaboration between organisations with arts projects, technology providers, and researchers. It is a partnership between Arts Council England (www.artscouncil.org.uk), Arts and Humanities Research Council (www.ahrc.ac.uk) and Nesta (www.nesta.org.uk).
Wharram Percy music projectPrimary school children in the Ryedale Wolds will have the opportunity to take part in an exciting project to create new music about their surroundings this coming Spring.
Taking Wharram Percy, a deserted medieval village, as creative inspiration, the children will take part in a range of musical activities introducing them to early music, folk songs, and soundscape compositions using extended vocal techniques. Through visits to the heritage site, the school pupils will create a film using footage of the deserted village, with their own performances of new music as an exciting soundtrack.
Led by members of experimental vocal trio ‘juice’, a series of workshops with the children will explore music inspired by stories of village life at Wharram Percy, as well as imagining the kinds of music that might have been played there in the 15th and 16th centuries. In addition, soundscapes will be created incorporating music technology and unusual vocal techniques, encouraging the children to use their voices in new an interesting ways. With the new music compiled and set to film at the end of the project, the schools will come together for a final showcase performance.
This project will be delivered by Pied Piper, as part of the NYMAZ Musical Inclusion Programme for North Yorkshire, which is funded by Youth Music.
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North Yorkshire Music Hub INSET Calendar 2014-15•
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North Yorkshire Music Hub INSET Calendar 2014-15
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National recognition for Swaledale percussion project
Swaledale Festival has been recognised with a Big Society Award, thanks to the success of its recent Percussion Project for children.
This was part of the NYMAZ Musical Inclusion programme for North Yorkshire, funded by Youth Music. The announcement came as the two-week community arts festival celebrated the close of its 2014 programme, which included music from local and international artists, guided walks, talks and theatre productions.
The Swaledale Festival is a charity, run by two part-time staff and an army of local volunteers, which works with communities in Richmond and the surrounding area throughout the year to develop a variety of arts projects for local people.
The Swaledale Festival Percussion project inspired 100 children in five Richmondshire schools. The children worked with local woodwork experts at Gayle Mill to make instruments while learning technical, manual and communication skills as well as learning about local heritage. The five-month project ended in March with all the children performing with professional Samba band Forro Porro to a sell-out audience at Influence Church in Richmond, playing the instruments they had helped to make.
Malcolm Creese, Artistic Director said:
“Winning a Big Society Award means an enormous amount to the team at Swaledale Festival, and to all the people who made the Percussion Project such a memorable event. I am particularly thrilled for the one hundred children who took part; I can’t wait to tell them the good news.”
Previous Big Society Award winners include The British Paraorchestra, which provides a successful platform for the country’s most talented musicians with disabilities. In 2012 they performed with Coldplay at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics.
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Bands together at Boroughbridge HighBoroughbridge High School hall was crammed to bursting point with young musicians in July, playing together in what must have been one of the biggest musical gatherings in the area.
The school hosted a workshop for every child learning a musical instrument (at home or at school) and attending one of eight local primary schools - 115 children aged 7-11, playing instruments ranging from recorders and ukuleles to saxophone and double bass (and everything in between).
The schools involved were Boroughbridge Primary, Brafferton, Kirby Hill, Green Hammerton, Great Ouseburn, Long Marston, Nun Monkton, and Roecliffe. These schools form part of a network of 11 schools in the Boroughbridge area which have combined forces to allow their pupils to access musical experiences that are not normally available to small schools in rural areas.
It was a full day event, with the children working in three separate bands in the morning, learning a variety of pieces ranging from elegant dances to hard-hitting rock and blues. In the afternoon they came together with the High School year 7 children, who had spent a term learning instruments in a whole class setting.
The guest leader was James Stretton from Nottinghamshire, a successful performer, conductor, arranger and composer as well as a highly experienced workshop leader. The other
workshops were led by Josh Hill and Emily Roberts, music teachers at Boroughbridge High, who relished the chance to work with children half the size they’re used to.
The workshop finished with an afternoon performance for parents, which demonstrated just how much the children had learnt. Some of the primary children came back to school in the evening for a repeat performance of the blues with the year 7 students as part of the end of year summer concert. This gave them an opportunity to see the senior performers - including the high school choirs, swing band and chamber group - and some of the school’s talented soloists.
The workshop offered the area’s young musicians the chance to work together with other musical children and to become familiar with the High School site and staff. Thanks are due to James Stretton for his high energy leadership, to the primary school staff and parents for providing copious amounts of information and escorting the children on the day, and to the High School staff for the time and energy they put into making the day the success it was.Student Jacob Barfield helps ukulele
players strike the right chord
Support was provided by the North Yorkshire Music Hub, who part-funded the event and generously provided a free set of instruments for use on the day. Further funding came from Boroughbridge High School, and the Boroughbridge Area Primary Music Network.
Music Centres events round upScarborough highlightsThis year’s summer concert at the Spa had a sporting theme - all musicians came in sporting attire and the audience was invited to do the same - and did. This was the 5th year of the Spa ‘themed’ summer concert and was just a popular as the previous ones.
In June the EASY concert band with hub partner Scarborough Concert band performed at the Queen Street Methodist Church whilst Ebony, BIG, ECB, JCB,Jazz Train and Easy Jazz got together to play at Westborough Methodist Church. SAYSO (Scarborough Area Youth Symphony Orchestra) also performed at Westborough in July along with the junior strings, both guitar groups and intermediate orchestra. Sirocco (the centre’s advanced wind group) provided music for a local society wedding.
A further highlight of the summer was the cello masterclass with international star David Taylor. David is originally from Scarborough and made his debut with the SAYSO, playing Saint Saens’s cello concerto no 1. He has toured in France, Belgium, Austria, Hungary and Romania with the European Vacation and Chamber Orchestra as Co-Principal, as well as a live performance on Radio 3 with the CBSO Youth Orchestra and performing at the Royal Television Awards with Myleene Klass. David is currently playing a French cello circa 1900.
SAYSO got together once again with hub partner Scarborough Spa Orchestra at the beginning of September for the now annual concert enjoyed by everyone involved and EASY Jazz took part in the Scarborough Jazz festival. And everyone is already gearing up for the Christmas gala concert at the Spa Grand Hall with nearly 200 members involved.
Selby DatesDecember 2014 - Selby music centre concert
- Brass band concert Selby Abbey
- Selby Town Council Christmas lights - brass band
Skipton Dates11 October 2014 - Workshop with Skipton Music Centre’s folk band leading to a joint ceilidh with Fiddlers Wreck
Saturday 15 November - Skipton Music Centre open morning and Hub meeting
Saturday 6 December - End of term concerts Aireville School
Northallerton DatesNovember - Children in Need concert
December 6 - Christmas concert
Autumn term - Music centres combined big band concert
Contact the centres direct for more information
Harrogate Stephen Price 01609 534 979
Northallerton Su McCormack 01609 536 715
Scarborough Ralph Alder 01609 532783
Selby Hannah Hebden 01609 533 853
Skipton Pip Jopling 01609 534 795
Whitby Bob Butterfield 07581 639 528
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Craven’s busy weekendSkipton Music Centre’s Senior Wind Band and Big Band enjoyed performing in the Craven area once again during the summer term. Local residents were able to hear the Big Band perform at Gargrave Open Gardens on Saturday 17 May and both the Senior WindBband and Big Band performed the following day at the Craven Sports and Cultural Fayre. Helped by a weekend of superb weather, both events attracted large crowds and the bands enjoyed sizable audiences.
Big Band Director Kevin Maltby said, ‘Our musicians at Skipton Music Centre are always keen to play in the local community and the Big Band look forward to other opportunities to play in and around Skipton in the near future’.
Scarborough Music Centre workshop
Graham Lower School hosted a Clustered Local Junior Schools workshop, organised by the music service staff in Scarborough and run by them in partnership with the school’s music department staff.
The event was held at the end of the summer term and the combined staff worked hard to provide musical activities and ensemble playing for 70 children, with the morning session split into singing and Samba drumming. After a short break the children formed an orchestra and learned ensemble techniques and repertoire pieces - a new experience of some of the children. The workshop finished with a performance of the day’s activities for parents, complete with an encore.
Orchestra and ensemble playing was a new experience for some of the children.
Skipton Music Centre really has talentSkipton Music Centre’s summer term highlight was its first talent show showcasing the skills of its members. Performances included solo instrumental items, songs and small ensemble pieces. The show gave Skipton Music Centre’s members the opportunity to perform outside their usual Saturday ensembles and a number of performers formed their own groups especially for the show.
After the performances, talent show judge Jane Atkinson said, ‘The standard of the performers was excellent and it was good to see such a variety of acts. Skipton Music Centre should be very proud of the array of talent that was on show and I hope to be invited back for the next one’.
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The North Yorkshire Primary Music Scheme of Learning includes material for Years 1 and 2 through to Years 5 and 6 and includes a range of resources and interrelated assessment.
The music schemes of learning have been well received by schools and were written by Cathy Roberts (EDA: Creative and Performing Arts) with contributions from the primary music peer practitioners Diane Fleming, Carmel Wake and Sarah Andrews.
Training for the Year 5/6 North Yorkshire Music Scheme of Learning will continue during 2014-15. The training runs over three days, one day per term and will take place on 20/11/14, 26/02/15 and 25/06/15 at Boroughbridge High School and will be led by Cathy Roberts and Diane Fleming. Training on the scheme is also available for clusters of schools.
For more information please contact [email protected]
What teachers say“The new scheme of learning is fantastic! The children love moving to music and singing the action songs. It has been wonderful to see our Y6 boys in particular become so much more engaged in music.” Susan Stanwix, Ravensworth Church of England Primary School
“Having attended training (Year 3/.4 and 5/6) this year, I believe this scheme of work would be excellent for any school’s success. It introduces knowledge and musical material
clearly within concise plans, while not assuming that schools have any expensive equipment.
“Tactical re-visiting of songs and games is used to build up understanding without overloading the lesson content and no specialist teacher knowledge is assumed. However, another attraction is that there are opportunities for more knowledgeable teachers and pupils to expand on the lesson ideas given or even explore a related pathway that may be especially relevant at the time (such as using different songs or a specific cross-curricular link).
“Performance and evaluation as part of on-going learning is properly valued by actually being planned for. Also, important ‘time out’ for other rich music making opportunities, such as school productions, is sensibly allowed for.” Estelle Pringle (supply teacher)
“Having attended the Year 5/6 sections of the music course led by the inspirational Cathy Roberts and her team in the Spring term, I decided to turn our school’s Year 5 and 6s into a Samba Band for the Easter Music Concert using the new NYCC Samba unit Music Scheme planning for 2014, in particular Unit 3 on Rhythm.
“It proved extremely successful on a number of levels! Firstly, the quality planning made teaching the children - most of whom had had very little (if any) previous experience of rhythm notation - very straight forward. There were lots of small activities that could be easily built upon, providing scaffolding to even the least confident of learners.
“The planned finished piece was effective as well - it sounded like something a professional Samba band may have played and this made it a highlight of the concert for pupils and parents! The most powerful aspect of this work, however, was the pupil’s engagement, enthusiasm and progress throughout the unit.
“Even the most reluctant of musicians (in my case a group of Year 5 boys) became keen to learn their rhythms correctly and, during the concert, performed them correctly
North Yorkshire Primary Scheme of Learning for Music
Year 6 boys from Ravensworth Church of England Primary School enjoying performing actions songs
Band entertains the Archbishop in the DalesThe Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, came to the remote village of Middlesmoor at the top of Nidderdale to take part in the annual Bell Festival in the summer. It’s a tradition that started 146 years ago and is an occasion when the dale and the arrival of the bells of St Chad’s Church is celebrated
As part of the celebrations, the Fountains Earth Primary School Band from just down the road in Lofthouse came along to play, make a great sound and celebrate how their music making has improved over the last year.
The music included in the performance for the Archbishop ranged from the Flintstones to One Direction’s ‘What Makes You Beautiful’.
The band consists of the whole class and they all learn a wind instrument.
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Breaking Through at The SageOver 30 primary, secondary and special schools from the north of the county came together at The Sage, Gateshead in a performance entitled “Breaking Through”.
The performance was the culmination of a large scale Arts Project inspired by the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Paralympic Games, London 2012. Schools worked together exploring the theme through music and dance.
Phoenix Dance Theatre worked with schools to choreograph the dances. Primary schools created their own compositions on the theme. A’ level music and music technology students from Northallerton College devised compositions based on music created by students at Mowbray and The Dales Schools using music software to manipulate the sounds which the students danced to. Northallerton Music Centre Ensembles performed and everyone came together in a Grand Finale conducted by Cathy Roberts (EDA: Creative and Performing Arts) to conclude the performance.”
700 singers accompanied by Northallerton Area Schools Symphony Orchestra and instrumentalists from primary schools brought the performance to a rousing conclusion, receiving a well-deserved standing ovation. It certainly was a night to remember.
The most powerful aspect of Samba unit was the pupil’s engagement, enthusiasm and progress throughout the unit.
with passion and high levels of concentration. My more high ability learners also gained from the work, helping to structure the piece and adding their own rhythm ideas to the final group performance.
“We can’t wait to perform again next year!” Lizzy de Simone, Year 6 teacher at Sherburn Hungate Community Primary School, Sherburn in Elmet.
Contact usCounty Music Centre, CYPS Business Support, SB114 South Block, County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AE
Tel: 01609 532783 Email: [email protected] Or visit our website at: www.northyorks.gov.uk
If you would like this information in another language or format such as Braille, large print or audio, please ask us. Tel: 01609 532917 Email: [email protected]
The North Yorkshire Music Hub - find out more and get involvedWe’re running music hub forums across the county every term and useful partnerships and possibilities are already developing. The make-up of the meetings has been encouraging, with groups ranging from community and town brass bands, professional orchestras, primary and secondary school teachers and local music societies.
Please get in touch with us if you’d like to be added to the invitation list and we’ll let you know where and when the next forum for your area will be - please email [email protected] or ring 01609 532 783.
We’re developing plenty of projects that you can take part in - these are just some of them:
• Continuous professional development programmes for school staff, particularly in supporting schools to deliver music in the curriculum.
• Providing an instrument loan service, with discounts or free provision for those having instrumental lessons with NYCC Music Service.
• Providing access to large scale and high quality music experiences for pupils through working with professional musicians and venues.
• Setting up an online area where you can find out more information and share examples of great partnership working in the county.
If you’d like to be added to our mailing list, want to tell us about your projects, or find out more about our plans, please email [email protected].
Buy in services All partners involved in the hub run workshops, concerts and other bespoke musical projects for children and young people on a bought in basis. If you have a specific project that you would like to launch or just require some advice on setting up your own, our partners will be happy to discuss your needs. The following examples may be of interest:
• curriculum guidance/delivery;
• working with professional musicians;
• catering for pupils with specific SEND needs; and
• bespoke CPD.
NYMAZ are also the signposting organisation for the hub and are happy to add your organisations details/activities to their website.
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