Music4Ed

05/10/2024

Hear how you can work to develop students autonomy as composers at Curriculum Music: Access and Impact.

📍 Cavendish Conference Centre
🗓️ 15th October

Register now: https://bit.ly/3KuJ7dC

05/10/2024

27/04/2024

Why do need to make ? "We're not just creating ; we're shaping well-rounded individuals" – Young Voices UK CEO Ben Lewis & Music Ally

Episode 152: Young Voices arranges huge, arena-sized, choir performances for school children, and we were joined by Ben Lewis, CEO of Young Voices, and Anna ...

18/11/2023

"EYFS & KS1 Tutors General Musicianship Tutors
(Mini Musicians Programme)

£215 per day inclusive of holiday pay allowance

[Merton Music Foundation] are looking for inspiring and talented music practitioners to work in EYFS and KS1 with half and whole classes, small groups and individuals delivering high quality General Musicianship lessons and singing assemblies, across primary schools in Merton."

https://www.musicmark.org.uk/jobs/key-stage-1-general-musicianship-tutors-mini-musicians-programme

06/11/2023

"The vast majority of nearly 4,000 teachers surveyed said current funding levels meant their school could not support learning properly."

The vast majority of nearly 4,000 teachers surveyed said current funding levels meant their school could not support learning properly

16/10/2023

"... but what about art and creativity? Arts education in schools has been cut to shreds. No paint, no materials, no status, no nothing.

Last summer, Labour committed to make creative education compulsory to the age of 16. Now we need some detail to back that up. Let’s recognise the potential of all the arts to nurture self-esteem and creative expression in young people, and help them find their voice in the world. High-quality arts education is indispensable. ... "

Letters: Investment in young people’s creativity after years of cuts will pay off for society as a whole, writes Matt Bell

05/10/2023

Closing date = 16th October

"This role is to work alongside [Music Mark's] Director of Excellence Programmes to plan and implement our MiSST Create programme – offering bespoke composition and music production support/workshops to our MiSST partner schools and at our MiSST Music Academy."

This role is to work alongside our Director of Excellence Programmes to plan and implement our MiSST Create programme – offering bespoke composition and music production support/workshops to our MiSST partner schools and at our MiSST Music Academy.

27/08/2023

Call to instrumental music teachers to get involved! Faber Music is embarking on a research project with Sound Connections to increase their understanding of the needs of instrumental music teachers and students in the UK.

22/08/2023

05/07/2023

What if?

Whilst working as a pianist at a primary school in 2005 (in the London borough of Richmond), and as a music tutor at a youth centre ('07, Kingston), I realised I would like to help children to create/perform music.  Whilst listening to music such as Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, I often thought 'W...

11/02/2023

Editorial: The government’s bleakly utilitarian education policies risk restricting the arts to a privileged few. It’s time for a change

19/12/2022

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Whilst working as a pianist within a primary school in 2005 (in the London borough of Richmond), and as a music tutor at a youth centre (2007, Kingston), I realised I would like to help children to create/perform music.  Whilst listening to music such as Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, I often thoug...

17/12/2022

17/12/2022

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Whilst working as a pianist within a primary school in 2005 (in the London borough of Richmond), and as a music tutor at a youth centre (2007, Kingston), I realised I would like to help children to create/perform music.  Whilst listening to music such as Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, I often thoug...

01/12/2022

I work at an after-school club at a primary school. They have (at least) 2 upright pianos, and 2 halls; 1 bigger than the other, where I watched the end of year production in July.

What if (a) staff member(s) performed on said piano(s) at a concert, and people (parents...) were charged a set ticket fee to attend?

What if part of that money (minus agreed fees for performers) was used by the school to buy resources, go on trips, pay for visiting external professionals, a piano tuner, ...?

What if (parents) were free to Pay What They Could Afford to keep access open and equal?

What if concerts were programmed termly, monthly, fortnightly or weekly?

What if we could commission a composer to write a piece for that school for those performers?

What if music students from a local university performed?

What if professional musicians performed?