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Should music lessons be about working hard, playing hard, or both?
In his interview with the Music Manifesto, National Music Week artist Lil' Chris spoke of his frustrating experiences in school music lessons. He insisted music learning should be about having fun, whereas his teacher always advocated hard work. Who would you side with?
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The Manifesto's five priorities
The Music Manifesto Partnership and Advocacy Group has announced its five priority areas for the campaign. Read the story
The five priorities are: An awards scheme to celebrate good practice; Workforce development; Transition; Crossing boundaries between in-school and out-of-school sectors; Special educational needs and inclusivity.
What do you think? Do you have experience in these areas that you would like to share? Do you have ideas, opinions or resources that could help inform the work of the MMPAG? Share your views.
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Music Manifesto Report No 2
Comments and reactions.
Tell us what you think of the report's recommendations.
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The Choir: Boys Don't Sing
Are you watching the new series of The Choir? Tell us what you think of Gareth Malone's latest TV challenge.
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Hearing Impaired Singers
I am a private singing teacher with a wide range of abilities amongst my pupils. Does anyone else have the experience of teaching singing to people with severe hearing impairment? I am learning so much from a pupil I currently teach. He just loves to sing, saying that 1 hour of singing is better than 8 hours of talking. I'd love to find someone to talk to about what I am experiencing with him.
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Sing Up registration
Has anyone else had problems registering with SingUp?
I filled in the registration form in December, and received an acknowledgement, than almost immediately was told I had been removed from the mailing list while my eligibility is checked. I recognise the problem as I am a freelance singing workshop leader/teacher and also a KS2 supply teacher, but not attached to any one school. I have taught singing as part of the general curriculum at KS2 for 15 years, and since September I have worked in three schools on Wider Opps singing for Gloucestershire Music Service, and two as an independent singing leader, working on songs the children sang at a schools' cluster dance and song festival last night. I cannot re-register on the SingUp site because it tells me there is already a registration in my name, but I cannot log in because my email - the only one I use, is not accepted. I have filled in the SU freelancers' form, and I am registered with Music Leader. What else can I do?
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Party Piece Poll
To highlight the Music Manifesto's aim to put singing back at the heart of all primary school musical activity, we are asking everyone to name a song they could sing unaccompanied.
So tell us, which song could you sing solo if push comes to shove? Post your 'Party Piece' song by logging in and clicking on Reply.
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"Back To Basics"
Music Manifesto champion Marc Jaffrey says we need to go "back to basics" when it comes to music education. Are we analysing too much, and making music too little?
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Music - An Experience or a Subject?
I went through school involved in lots of music making, then music teacher training but felt underconfident as a music teacher. It was only when I got in touch and trained in Kodaly that I experienced music as a subject with a progressive study of skills / concepts / knowledge that I stopped being confused and frustrated and as i gained in understanding I gained in confidence. I firmly believe that school teachers can be provided with a mountain of singing resources and still feel confused and under confident to deliver a singing curriclum that in content will provide meaning to the children if this progression of music is not being taught to teachers. Yes teachers already know there are songs to sing for fun, for assemblies, that relate to topics taught in other subjects e.g history but without knowledge of this progression of singing skills it remains just a range of experiences. I deliver music classes to mums with very young children and also children at key stage 1 and am building
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Comment on the Scottish Arts Council report
A Scottish Arts Council report has discovered that some freelancers and instrumental teachers feel undervalued, that recruitment processes are not transparent enough and that the importance of official qualifications is a moot point.
Read about the report here
What do you think of the results? Are there lessons to be learnt for the whole of the UK? Log in and tell us what you think.
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