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Music Hub News South Gloucestershire Music Hub News June 2020 Welcome Well the world has changed since we last circulated our Hub newsletter! We hope you are personally keeping well and coping with the challenges of social distancing. Unbelievably, schools closing to most pupils seems to have made our lives even busier than before. It’s difficult to explain the reasons for this to those not involved in education, but at least we know we’re all in the same boat. No doubt you have just welcomed more children into school in term six and will be having more join you shortly. We’re very aware that this is a very challenging time and music activity may not be at the top of your ‘to sort’ list at the moment. However, we all need to have a really good think about how we move forward musically, support the children who have instrumental/vocal lessons and provide musical/creative experiences for whole classes. It’s been inspiring to see how much comfort and enjoyment has been created by the sharing of music during the past two months. If ever there was a time when the importance of music in all our lives was evident, it is now. Here at the hub, we’re determined to do what we can to ensure that the difficulties created by the requirements of social distancing do not create barriers for the next generation of musicians. We have some ideas, but we need to work through the practicalities with you, so please read on and importantly feedback to us your thoughts so we can shape things together, or the danger is thousands of young people will miss out musically. Before lockdown, preparations were already underway for a whole range of exciting musical opportunitites, which included our new ‘Let’s Rock’ holiday courses for complete beginners. Many of you had welcomed the Head of our Rock School, Pete Glover to your schools and he had been looking forward to visiting more of you and working with your young people. For secondary pupils we had started preparing our ‘Springtime on Broadway’ Easter Musical Theatre Course and plans were afoot to repeat the success of last year’s Summer school. We were also really disappointed to have to cancel the performances for our ‘Ignite festival’, in which many of your pupils were due to perform solos and ensemble pieces in a number of concerts and venues around our area. The concept of the Ignite Festival was a new one, only launched in 2019, and we are excited about developing it further in the coming years, but we’ll need our young people to continue to engage with their music lessons if we are to achieve this. However as some wise person once said ‘we are where we are’. So keeping a positive note, lets get onto business..! Tuition in term six We envisage almost all instrumental/vocal tuition taking place online during Term six due to continuing social isolation challenges in schools. Please continue to prompt and encourage your pupils to sign up for these lessons at: www.integramusic.co.uk It’s vital children re-engage with music lessons as soon as possible, or their skills, enthusiasm and the holistic benefits will fall by the wayside; trying to get them back on board musically later in September will be a real challenge. If you do want some music lessons to take place physically in your school during term six, then please let us know if this of interest, as we may be able to provide them. However we will need to do a risk assessment with you in the first instance, to ensure this is undertaken safely for all parties. However, it’s now more important than ever that you please let pupils know about our online lessons – and to keep promoting that message. For some students the only way for them to hear about how to access these lessons will be through you and your school keeping them informed, so we hope you will keep supporting us with this. In the meantime we have given a great deal of thought and taken much advice on the safeguarding aspects of our online offer, to the extent we are confident our terms and conditions are amongst the strongest from a safeguarding perspective. Please share this information with your students We can now deliver video conference style 1-2-1 lessons over Microsoft Teams, which is a secure platform used by and approved by South Gloucestershire Council for such use. It’s free to download the Microsoft Teams software to a laptop, PC or tablet and students can use the system on any device without downloading anything. Using their browser they simply accept an invitation to a scheduled lesson and join in, so there should be no obstacle to anyone accessing this learning. Safeguarding for these lessons is secure and is agreed in advance with the families. Families pay the Music Hub directly for these online lessons. There are detailed terms and conditions that families will need to agree to before lessons can commence. To book lessons families should go to www.integramusic.co.uk and click on the link at the end of the ‘Online lessons available now’ section. To help families during the period of school closures and lock down we are subsidising these lesson costs further than usual and absorbing the online booking provider’s fees, so this is not added onto the cost to families. Please note that we’re only able to do this for a limited time. Tuition from September We know you have an incredible amount to deal with at the moment as a unique Term six gets underway and you prepare for September. However, high-quality music making amongst young people is something we are proud of in South Gloucestershire, with many children benefitting not just from developing musical skills, but also the holistic outcomes that for many are absolutely vital to their wellbeing and personal development. We’ll very shortly be circulating the Instrumental/Vocal Tuition Booking Form for next year and you won’t be surprised to learn it introduces new flexible options for delivery. We urge you to ask your pupils to book lessons for next year as you normally would, but when completing the form, consider the delivery model that will enable your pupils to continue with their lessons or begin them. As well as considering the safety of pupils and your school teachers we also must be confident the peripatetic music teachers are not put at risk. Where lessons are 1-2- 1 and teaching spaces are very large for some schools, there will be little change to the current delivery model, except for teacher and pupil remaining physically distant and potentially the Hub providing clear screens between pupil and teacher. In other schools online streamed video lessons will be the only solution due to restrictions of space etc. There may well be some schools where it would work to have perhaps one music service teacher delivering lessons on the premises, while other lessons are delivered remotely. This could also mean the teacher present could devote some time to supporting those children having remote lessons with technology issues. Be assured, we want to work with you to enable your pupils to continue their lessons and support new pupils to begin their musical journeys. We will shortly distribute proposals for making music lessons in some form feasible, so if you have suggestions for how we can enable lessons to work in your school, or wish us to take other factors into account, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. It’s only by working together to plan and implement new ways of teaching music, that we’ll get through this with minimal impact upon our young people. Our relationship with North Somerset Music Service As you’re aware Mark Trego from North Somerset Music Service is leading the Hub this year, which has brought opportunities for each organisation to benefit from the other, with many more potential positive opportunities on the horizon. Because the arrangement has worked so well, we are now entering into a longer agreement between the two councils for this joint working arrangement to continue. So far, the only indication of the growing relationship within schools will have been some schools spotting that one or two instrumental teachers are wearing an ID badge from North Somerset. Enabling the teachers from both teams to drift across borders is really helping us meet the needs of schools and pupils more flexibly. As part of this new arrangement, Anne Clough who is currently Music CPD and Singing Strategy Manager in North Somerset, will relinquish her CPD hat and instead split her time equally between South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. This will result in a greater volume of the already high quality singing activity taking place in our schools and Anne is looking forward to leading us on a wonderful singing journey over the next twelve months. We are also planning joint authority events and combined, the number of advanced pupils will be large enough to launch new advanced ensembles and activities for our highest attaining young musicians. This is just the start of a exciting new era for both hubs and will benefit everyone! Please look out for news of these new opportunities in the coming months. New Hub Leader Mark’s tenure leading us through this year of transition, as mentioned above, ends in September, so he will be handing over to a new Joint Music Hub Leader at the end of this academic year.
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