Music Mark North West Conference Breakout sessions/workshops

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Orchestras for All’s Looking for ways to kick-start music-making in your for All Modulo Magic school? Wish there was a way to turn your keen flautist, drummer and violinist into an orchestra? Or perhaps your music class of keyboard players need a great ensemble performance.

Orchestras for All’s interactive Modulo Magic session can help with this. During the session, you’ll join our pop-up orchestra and get some handy tips for establishing a small multi-instrument ensemble for mixed-ability players. Along the way, you’ll develop your ensemble leadership skills, and learn how to invigorate a culture of ensemble music- making in your school. The Dalcroze In Dalcroze Eurhythmics, music is experienced TBC Method through movement – the teaching and learning process engages body, mind and emotion. Classroom Strategies and techniques for dealing with large Dr Elizabeth Stafford Management groups of students. Moving forward Chief Executive of Music Mark will discuss and Bridget Whyte with a Music workshop ideas gleaned from the consultative Education Plan 2.0 process MM have carried out. This will give delegates the chance to contribute to the process and to hear the thinking from the cutting edge of strategic planning.

Arts Award/Arts The ACE Bridge organisation for the north west will Louise Hesketh Mark and you! explore ways in which Arts Award and Artsmark can be incorporated into your teaching.

Delivering the Ways in which the national curriculum for music can Dr Elizabeth Stafford National be fully integrated into whole class instrumental Curriculum through teaching. WCIT Ukulele This practical session will give you the opportunity Kate Campbell-Green to gain the skills and confidence needed to teach whole class ukulele; from tuning to playing in parts. You will have the opportunity to learn accessible pieces using both chords and strings, explore current pedagogy and access to a wealth of resources Kate has compiled over a decade of teaching and playing the ukulele. It will explore the broad pathways and opportunities which are available to ukulele enthusiasts of any age and any standard whether it is an absolute beginner, aspiring rock star or grade 8 finger picking superstar. Working with boys Exploring the challenges that face singing with boys Marc Hall voices in schools.

Singing Starters Energetic starters and songs that will enhance any Shirley Court and Warm Ups classroom. Marketing Music Stephanie Kennedy from Music Mark Head Office Stephanie Kennedy Services and Music will offer he r thoughts on marketing your service as Mark Schools a manager or individual teacher. This session will also look in more detail at the Music Mark School scheme Creative This workshop will explore the challenges and Gregory Rose Approaches to pleasures of working with music of today with a Group Music conductor and composer who has worked with Making: New ‘living music’ since his teenage years, and who has Music been Music Director of CoMA since 1999 [CoMA = Contemporary Music for All]. All the pieces chosen will be from the CoMA library, using the “Open score” format (upper, middle upper, middle lower, lower, plus piano and percussion) and so is suitable for virtually any instrument, and there are transpositions for most instruments. Several of the pieces have already been used in the classroom with much success.

In the Loop. The Using Roland’s RC505 desktop loopstation, Josh Josh Savage use of loopstation Savage will demonstrate a range of looping software in your techniques suitable for performing and composing in teaching. the classroom or instrumental teaching environments. Audience participation is encouraged! Josh will also chat through other looping and recording technologies including Roland’s new R07 portable digital recorder. Bring your instruments if you can!

Progression routes The session is a presentation by three leading tutors TBC for children and from across the Greater hub, practical young people with tips and what really works and advice on what to try additional needs. with your students. Each tutor will talk about a different aspect of SEND.

Creative classroom Explore the essence of one of the with BBC Philharmonic and responses to BBC musicians from the BBC Philharmonic and Patrick Bailey Ten Pieces workshop leader Patrick Bailey. Develop methods for working with the Ten Pieces lesson plans and creating original music using different compositional ideas.

Conducting and Develop your maestro skills by conducting members BBC Philharmonic and ensemble training of the BBC Philharmonic! Using the BBC Ten Patrick Bailey with the BBC Pieces arrangements, learn how musicians play Philharmonic together with a view to helping pupils use their conductor effectively. The session will include conducting and rehearsal techniques. Bring your instrument and play with the BBC Philharmonic musicians!

Think Tank: Brass An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Iain McKnight across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area.

Think Tank: An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Dr Elizabeth Stafford Curriculum across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area. Think Tank: Guitar An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Nick Mackey across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area.

Think Tank: An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Chris Bastock Percussion across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area. Think Tank: An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from TBC Piano/Keyboard across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area. Think Tank: Voice An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Rachel Hughes across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area.

Think Tank: Rock An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Dennis Hadfield and Pop across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area.

Think Tank: Strings An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Stuart Hazleton across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area.

Think Tank: An opportunity to discuss with colleagues from Anna Shipton Woodwind across the region developments in the teaching of the focus area.