Music Support for Schools

Make your school a Musical School

We can work with you to provide as wide range of high quality musical experiences for the children in your school.

For enquiries about instrumental tuition, KS2 Wider Opportunities in music and local music making days and festivals, please contact phone 01952 380981

We provide a wide-ranging programme of training courses to support teachers in their delivery of National Curriculum Music. some of these will come under the banner of our singing Strategy - others will target areas of musical learning such as composing or wil be designed to support music leaders in schools.

New to Primary Music

A one to one two hour session for those who have been recently been appointed to a primary music co-ordinator’s role. The session will:-

• explore the OFSTED criteria for primary music,
• signpost to teaching resources for primary music,
• support for developing your school’s Music policy,
• support for auditing music opportunities music resources in your school which develops a broad picture of your whole school music provision
• a copy of our Primary Music Self Review Toolkit.

To book a session email tracey.stirling@telford.gov.uk or phone 01952 380981.

Cost to school: £35 per session

School Instrument & Music Hire

Telford & Wrekin Music has a well maintained stock of a variety of music and musical instruments such as:-

• Woodwind,
• Strings,
• Percussion and
• World Music instruments

Schools can hire to use on projects or to support the delivery of the national curriculum within Telford & Wrekin schools. Please contact the Telford & Wrekin Music office for further details, availability and costing on 01952 380981 or email tracy.hall@telford.gov.uk

After school music and lunchtime clubs

Through Telford & Wrekin Music’s brought in hours scheme, a school can buy in a music teacher to run an after school music club or lunchtime music club as part of your extended school’s provision, such as:-

• Rock School, build your own school young people led bands.
• Brass Club,
• Choir,
• Percussion Club

Please contact Tracy Hall for further details tracy.hall@telford.gov.uk

Music Workshops

Telford & Wrekin Music offers a range of music workshops for all key stages, such as Shake, Rattle and Roll, Samba, Funky Junk and Soundbeam. Please contact Telford & Wrekin Music for the latest list of workshops on offer to schools and settings. Phone 01952 380981.

Musical Bridges Transition Programme

Over the coming year 2011/12, Telford & Wrekin Music will be working with the national CPD pilot programme Musical Bridges, designed and funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation working with bother primary and secondary schools.

Working with both the Oakengates Learning Community and the Dawley Learning Community, the first twlight CPD session will be on the 24th January 2012 at Phoenix School, Dawley.

Musical Bridges has identified school transition and transfer issues as these affect young people's musical learning and general progression from primary into secondary school. This has been most effective where teachers have had the active support of Heads and senior leadership staff.

www.musicalbridges.org.uk

Musical Monsters Resouce Pack (KS1)

Following on from the two year HIT project at HLC Primary school lead by Richard Shrewsbury and Telford & Wrekin Music which finished lat year, we have developed the Musical Monsters pack aimed at pupils in KS1 as part of the project’s legacy. In your Musical Monsters resource pack there are illustrations of seven Musical Monsters all representing one of the key elements of music as follows:

PITCH

High and Low Notes with an extendable neck, enabling it to sing high and low and everything in between.

DYNAMICS

Three different sizes of mouth to indicate volume.

TEMPO

Has different size legs so can speed up and slow down and change tempo at will. 

DURATION

Can coil up like a spring and make short sounds or uncoil and make very long sounds!

TEXTURE

A confused creature that can play sounds on their own (solo), as a duet or with many many more sounds!

TIMBRE

Thinks about the quality of sound, is it a metallic sound or a wooden sounds, is it a blown sound or a hit sound?

RHYTHM

Has loads of hands and can play simple and very complex rhythms. There are songs for all the Monsters for you to learn together including a theme song. Rhythm tracks for you to dance to and encourage free movement to music and a musical games worksheet with some simple ideas for musical monster games in the classroom. 

Telford Primary Music Teachers Network Meetings

For primary music teachers, NQT's and teaching assistants. Meets twice a year on topics highlighted as areas of need and development by schools.