Taking place on the evening of 7 February 2014 in the Barbican’s newly refurbished Garden Room & Conservatory, the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence 2014 will celebrate the work of those in the music education industry. Held in conjunction with Music Education Expo 2013, the inaugural event presented 9 awards to very deserving individuals Categories There are 11 award categories this year as follows:
To find out more about the criteria for each category, please visit www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/award-categories Nominations Nominations close on 7 November 2013, and the finalists will be announced on 18 November 2013 via the Expo social network sites and in the December issue of Music Teacher magazine. To make a nomination, please visit www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/nominate, download an application form and send the completed form to music.teacher@rhinegold.co.uk. Anyone is eligible to make a nomination; you can even nominate yourself! |
Category Archives: Music
Fife Council Youth Music Initiative – The Big Strum!
An innovative music project culminated this week with 1400 Fife primary children coming together for the first ever Big Strum in the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes.
The event celebrated the many achievements of children and their primary teachers from over 30 schools who together have been learning singing and musicianship skills through the humble ukulele – and having a lot of fun in the process!
Led by primary music specialist, Ann Rae, and supported with Scottish Government Youth Music Initiative funding, plans are already in place to include
up to 60 primary schools in Fife next session.
An independent evaluation of the project, focusing on the quality of the CPD offered to teachers and the impact on children and their learning, has been commissioned from the University of Dundee and will be published later this summer.
Photos of the event are available to view at https://www.facebook.com/fifecouncil
For more information on this approach and other Fife Youth Music Initiative related activities, please contact Sandra Taylor, Music Co-ordinator, Fife Council
sandra.taylor@fife.gov.uk
Project Co-ordinator opportunity with Fèis Rois
Fèis Rois is offering an exciting opportunity for a young person aged 16 – 20 to join its team as a Project Co-ordinator.
The successful candidate will be offered a 1-year full-time contract at Fèis Rois, as well as having the opportunity to work towards a nationally recognised qualification in Community Arts Management through the Creative Apprenticeship scheme.
The apprentice will have the opportunity to work on a number of Fèis Rois projects, including residential courses, the Ceilidh Trail and the national Fèis Rois schools programme.
The successful candidate will also receive numerous professional development opportunities, including:
– Mentoring from experienced members of the Fèis Rois staff team;
– First aid and child protection training from external providers;
– In-house CPD opportunities, including social networking, IT, and creative courses.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about the arts and who has an interest in traditional music. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to work as part of a small team.
Salary: £8,500 – £12,500
Term: Fixed Term (One Year)
Deadline: Friday 31st May 2013
For more information and an application form, please visit www.feisrois.org
Making Tracks at Campsie View with Quavers Music
Kirsty Hamilton From Quavers Music has been working at Campsie View School
to provide Music Opportunities for Children.
The project ‘Making Tracks’ which began in January and finishes in June
2013 will enable children and young people with additional support needs to
access high quality music making activity. Children will be supported to
take ownership of their work by leading the group in performance of their
composition. Quavers Music courses develop Emotional Personal and Social
Skills, Communication and Language; Knowledge and Understanding of the
World, Physical Development: and Expression and Imagination.
The project has been supported by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music
Initiative, Quavers Music and East Dunbartonshire Leisure Culture Trust.
For more information please contact:
Esmee Thompson Cultural Coordinator
Esmee.Thompson@eastdunbarton.gov.uk
0141 777 3092
East Dunbartonshire Youth Music Forum
East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture Trust has been successful in securing funding from Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative to establish a Youth Music Forum in East Dunbartonshire.
East Dunbartonshire’s Forum will be established through an initial mapping of music provision highlighting the wealth of quality opportunities currently offered and new wider opportunities to support young people to engage in music activity. A report detailing this will be available in June 2013.
A series of events and professional development opportunities will be offered to teachers, music tutors music groups and young people. East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture Trust are currently looking for volunteers and music
organisations who would like to be involved.
If you would like more information or to be involved in the forum activities please contact:
Esmee Thompson Cultural Coordinator
Tel 0141 777 3092
National Singing Lesson on Glow TV
Scotland’s Still Singing, 27 February, 2.00 pm
Join Maeve Mackinnon and Innes Watson as they entertain us with Scots and Gaelic songs in this national singing lesson.
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx
(Glow login and password required)
New Music Biennial 2014 – music commissioning fund
In partnership with Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the first ever UK-wide New Music Biennial, presenting a series of brand new music commissions to audiences across the UK in 2014.
Organisations (not limited to those working primarily in music) can apply for up to £20,000 to commission and perform new work from individual composers across all genres. The scheme will support and promote up to twenty new commissions, which will be performed across the length and breadth of the UK as Scotland prepares to celebrate the Commonwealth Games.
This first edition of New Music Biennial has been developed with Creative Scotland, Arts Council England and the British Council. Additional support has been provided by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales and John S. Cohen Foundation. The scheme will be delivered in partnership with BBC Radio 3, NMC Recordings, Southbank Centre and Glasgow UNESCO City of Music.
Further information and application forms are available at the PRSF website.
The deadline for applications is 6pm, Monday 4th March.
Glow Meet with SCO – A Little Book of Monsters
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Glow TV events coming up
Assessment Community – 10 Key Assessment Messages, 16 January 2013, 8.20 am, http://glo.li/WoBjb1
Join the Education Scotland Assessment Team for a series of Glow Meets taking place in the Assessment Community. This first early bird event looks at the 10 key assessment messages and will be hosted by Catherine Lawson from the team.
NB: This same event will also run on Thursday 17 January at 3.45 pm
Paper Creativity Challenge – Prezi, 18 January, 9.30 am http://glo.li/11umxY7
This Glow Meet is one in a series which is taking place over the next few weeks.
Prezi is a large blank sheet of digital paper which can be edited easily to share beautiful interactive presentations. This Glow Meet will share how to create an education account with Prezi. Prezi basics and then some ideas for using prezi for storytelling.
Paper Creativity Challenge – Make a Book with an Artist, 21 January, 11.00 amhttp://glo.li/Vkl0Q1
During this Glow TV session the artist will demonstrate three examples of making books, first is the five minute note book made from just one piece of paper, the second is the simple concertina folded book and lastly a basic hand sewn note book.
Paper Creativity Challenge – Meerkat Mail, 22 January, 11.00 am http://glo.li/Vpe5Fh
Join Margo Kerr, Early Years Development Officer in West Lothian to listen to the wonderful story of Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett and find out about this week’s creativity challenge. We know you can do it!!
Assessment Community – What is the NAR? 22 January 2013, 8.20 am, http://glo.li/WoCvuW
Join the Education Scotland Assessment Team for a series of Glow Meets taking place in the Assessment Community.
This early bird event is entitled ‘What is the NAR? and will be hosted by Jem Anderson from the team.
NB: This same event will also run on Thursday 24 January at 3.45 pm
Holocaust Memorial Day – Scotland 2013 – Arts Event
23 January, 2 pm, http://glo.li/RzCc1t
Join us for this first event for Holocaust Memorial Day – Scotland 2013, where young people from across Scotland interpret HMD 2013 theme Communities Together Build a Bridge through the arts in film, drama, song and more.
Burns bash http://blogs.educationscotland.gov.uk/glowscotland/2013/01/16/burns-bash/
Join us for our celebration of the birth of Burns and the life and work of our famous bard on Friday 25 January at 9.30 am. This year we want you to be able to share what you have been doing in your schools and classrooms so join us for our Burns Bash.
If you would like to share your Scottish poems, dances or art work then make sure that you are with us that day to let other schools see what you have been doing – remember we always need an audience too so if you don’t want to perform then please just join us anyway.
For full details of Glow TV events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.
(Glow log-in and password required).
Assessing progress and achievement
Education Scotland has recently published Professional Learning Resources on assessing progress and achievement designed to support quality assurance and moderation activities.
Resources are available for:
Expressive Arts
Modern Languages
Languages: Literacy and English
Languages: Gaelic (learners)
Social Studies
