Music Conference 2023/4
Together we make a Difference
Thursday 1 February 2024
Low Wood Bay Hotel, Windermere, LA23 1LP
in partnership with Lancashire Music Hub
Registration from 8.45 - ends 16.30
An inspirational day of workshops and networking to help you get more out of music for the children and young people you work with. The day is designed to support you with the new National Plan for Music, your SMDP and delivery of the Model Music Curriculum - while keeping creativity and joy at the heart of music.
Speakers and Sessions:
Paul Whittaker, inspirational speaker, musician, performer and workshop leader who is profoundly deaf. Paul will also share his passion for Signed Song.
Rebecca Berkley, Professor of Music at Reading University and Director of Sing for Pleasure, will help you assess practical musicianship skills and the Model Curriculum
David Horne from RNCM demystifies the composing process
Snappy Opera explore new ways of working with children with additional needs, and integrating music into the school day
Lucinda Geoghegan from NYCOS / British Kodaly explores musicianship
Sharon Durant, Sing up
Charanga Yumu
Write your School Music Development Plan with the help of the Cumbria Music Hub team
Workshop Leaders:
Lucinda Geoghegan: NYCOS / British Kodaly
Writing your School Music Development Plan: Practical support sessions
Introduction to Live Music Now and Musical Mondays
Sharon Durant: Sing Up
Timetable
9.30–10.45 Welcome and Keynote
11.15-12.15 Session 1
12.15-1 Lunch (included in ticket price)
2.05-3.00 Session 3
3.15-4.00 Session 4
4.00-4.15 Show and Tell
Key Note Speaker: Paul Whittaker
Paul will talk about accessibility, singing and signing, and the impact of his work with NYCOS and Deaf Children.
Workshop (all KS): Introduction to Signed Song
Paul was born in Huddersfield in 1964 and has been deaf all his life. After getting a music degree from Wadham College, Oxford and a post-graduate diplomas from the RNCM he founded “Music and the Deaf”, a charity he ran for 27 before leaving to pursue a freelance career.
Paul has signed many shows and concerts across the UK and performed with The King’s Singers, Voces 8, CBSO, RPO, and at many festivals including the Cumnock Tryst and the BBC Proms. He continues to promote music and deafness and currently runs 8 signing choirs. He was awarded an OBE in 2007 and holds 2 Honorary Degrees.
Since 2020 Paul has been working closely with the National Youth Choir of Scotland Creative Learning team devising BSL resources based on Kodaly methods and he continues to be an advocate for music and deafness.
Photo credit to Michaela Walsh
David Horne: Composing
Workshop: Composing with Secondary Pupils
Where do we begin / How to Extend?
David aims to demystify the process of composing. The workshop will will explore the notion of ‘developing an idea’ in a variety of contexts to demonstrate how ideas can be usefully generic and apply across genres.
Workshop: Composing with KS1&2
Where do we begin / How to Extend?
Practical and hands on tips and reassurance on how to get started creating the kind of music your students are listening to today…
Winner of the piano section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1988, he performs regularly. He is in high demand in education delivering workshops and lectures for organisations including Sound and Music, Wigmore Hall, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
He mentored emerging professional composers on Making Music’s Adopt a Composer and Sound and Music’s Next Wave schemes and is now Professor in Composition and Head of the Graduate School at the Royal Northern College of Music teaching composition at all levels. He also teaches across a range of disciplines with a particular interest in performance studies, supervising the work of PhD performers and composers.
Dr Rebecca Berkley: Assessment and the Model Music Curriculum
Workshop: Show me what you know (Primary focus)
Assessing practical musicianship skills in primary children.
Musical learning is non-verbal and is heard and seen in the way children sing, move, play instruments and explore musical sound. It can be difficult as a teacher to deliver practical music lessons and assess what the children are doing at the same time.
This is a practical session exploring ways of assessing children’s musical learning in the four key activities of the Model Music Curriculum: Singing, Listening, Composing and Performing, including performing on instruments, through incremental development of the skills relating to each area. We will explore ways to integrate assessment into your music teaching, investigating some practical examples from KS1 and KS2. If you can, please bring along a pitched instrument to this session.
Workshop: Modelling the Music Curriculum (Primary)
A practical discussion session investigating ways to implement the Model Music Curriculum in schools. Hear the latest Ofsted advice about ways to ways to support children in becoming better at music by teaching them technical, expressive and constructive skills through planned knowledge and skills development. We will consider planning for music teaching across the key stages, encourage you to share good practice, and explore ideas for tackling challenges in curriculum design. We will discuss how to embed practical musicianship into the school curriculum. If you can, please bring along some examples from your own schools of how you are implementing the Model Music Curriculum in your schemes of work and lesson planning.
Rick Kershaw: Developing Rock and Pop Ensembles with children in School
Workshop: Developing Rock and Pop Ensembles with children in School (KS3 focus)
Rick will give you some practical ideas to get your KS3 rock band off the ground. He'll present some basic instrumental techniques for you to try on the day that non rock-band musicians and complete beginners can get going with quickly. He'll also talk about approaches to getting pupils through the door and an instrument into their hands, and some repertoire and resources that can be used straight away.
Max Wheeler: First Steps in Music Technology
Workshop: First Steps in Music Technology with Charanga Yu Studio (KS2 focus)
Annie Ruscillo and Bridget Rennie: Inclusive music at Sandgate School
Workshop: Incusive Opera in action
Learn from Snappy Opera's year long music residency at Sandgate school - a partnership with Mahogany Opera. The workshop will explore the new ways of working with children with additional needs and integrating a music project into the school day.