Putting Music at the Heart of Hull 2018 – 2019 REPORT
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Putting Music at the Heart of Hull 2018 – 2019 REPORT Hull Music Service – putting music at the heart of Hull Each Local Authority Area has a Music Education Hub. The national funding for Music Education Hubs comes from the Department for Education and is administered by Arts Council England (ACE). Hull Music Service is the Lead Partner for Hull Music Hub and commits to delivering on 4 Core Roles and 3 Extension Roles: National Plan for Music Education Core Roles 1. Ensure that every child aged 5 to 18 has the opportunity to learn a musical instrument (other than voice) through whole-class ensemble teaching programmes for ideally a year (but for a minimum of a term) of weekly tuition on the same instrument 2. Provide opportunities to play in ensembles and to perform from an early stage 3. Ensure that clear progression routes are available and affordable to all young people 4. Develop a singing strategy to ensure that every pupil sings regularly and that choirs and other vocal ensembles are available in the area Extension Roles 1. Offer continuing professional development to school staff, particularly in supporting schools to deliver music in the curriculum 2. Provide an instrument loan service, with discounts or free provision for those on low incomes 3. Provide access to large-scale and/or high-quality music experiences for pupils, working with professional musicians and/or venues. This may include undertaking work to publicise the opportunities available to schools, parents/carers and students Hull City Council Corporate Plan At a local level, the Hull Music Hub appears strategically in the Hull City Council Corporate Plan 2018 – 2022. Section "Delivering Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth" "Support the Hull Music Hub and the Local Cultural Education Partnership to foster children's artistic talents creating new opportunities for young people.” Page 1 of 31 There are six key strategic contributions Hull Music Service is making: 1. Invest to build funding capacity as well as cultural capital. The investment made by Hull City Council acts as a platform on which the Music Service can generate an annual budget of over £1.2 million and flourish. Funding comes from the LA, DfE/ACE, Schools, families, trusts and charities. This represents a significant return on the council’s continued investment. 2. Opportunity & Access. This report and data demonstrates that the City’s Music Service is working city wide, and with significant numbers of children and young people for whom there would be little or no opportunity to engage with high quality music making. The Hub structure of partners is enabling HMS to continue to develop an even greater reach. 3. Social Mobility and Raising Aspiration Attending a weekly ensemble or activity at the Albemarle, for many children and young people, is the first step to looking outside their immediate community and trying new things. Progression leads to more independence, new experiences, venues and opportunities. All of this translates into a strong preparation for study, training and the world of work 4. Resilience and well-being There is compelling research demonstrating that engaging in music can support a wide range of challenges that our children and young people face. Schools are increasingly looking at music led interventions to help achieve social and/or behavioural outcomes. 5. Academic Attainment The British Music Journal Research that tracked attainment of pupils through all key stages in Hampshire provided clear evidence that children and young people who learn a musical instrument achieve more highly irrespective of their starting point academically. Recent Data analysis for Hull appears to confirm this. (appendix 2) 6. 2017 legacy City of Culture brought a wealth of opportunity and experiences to the City and the focus in now building meaningful legacy. The commitment to a music service and Music Education Hub, providing ongoing access to high quality music-making is a clear education legacy of 2017 and should be celebrated as such. Page 2 of 31 Hull Music Service 2018 – 2019 REPORT Lead Partner for Hull Music Hub The following report is based on the annual data return that all Lead Partners for Music Education Hubs provide to Arts Council England (ACE), as well as data collected and collated through Unique Pupil Numbers (UPNS) and Postcode data through the Insight Team. Introduction The 2018/19 academic year began with the appointment of a new Head of Service who took up post mid-October 2018 The main challenge of 2017/18 was to ensure that Hull Music Service (HMS) was not adversely affected by the withdrawal of the St Cuthbert's Multi-Academy Trust from using the Music Service as its provider for tuition. The loss of 1 high school and 7 primary schools plus an associated high school has resulted in a reduction of the overall figures reported in this return compared to 2017-18. However in the context of such as significant change, HMS has shown resilience and tenacity in reshaping its workforce and provision for 2018-19. The new Head of Service took advantage of being new and visited a significant number of schools across the city, as well as commissioning an online school survey. The feedback from these, directly fed into the review of the SLA for 19/20. School provision and SLA were re- launched under the heading "Putting Music at the Heart of Hull" New logos were commissioned and interim work on the website completed (more substantial changes to this will follow during 2019/20. This all focussed on creating a more outward facing organisation that is better placed to work with schools and our partners. This in turn will give us the best possible opportunity to secure non-government funds in the future. Our work with schools is being shaped to create different pathways for schools to engage depending on where they are in their musical journey. This has also led to providing support for not only individual schools but also across Multi-Academy Trusts. “Put your Trust in Music” will be a them for development over the coming year. Page 3 of 31 Whole Class Ensemble Tuition (WCET) also known as wider opportunities HMS delivers whole class programmes to 50 out of 71 primary schools (70.5%) Due to the St Cuthbert's MAT withdrawal from HMS provision in Summer 2018, 5 programmes ended and 7 primary schools no longer accesse HMS tuition provision. Therefore WCET provision effectively became 50 out of 64 schools (78%) 2455 pupils received WCET for the first time. An additional 419 had an additional year of WCET. These 419 pupils are not counted in the continuation total. (see below) Of the remaining 14 schools, 1 delivered it in house, 2 use other providers. The rest have either previously had a programme and stopped or not engaged in WCET at all. These schools will be our priority for the next few years. 16 Instrumental teachers accessed Charanga interactive instrumental courses to support WCET provision. Through the online Starter Modules or courses such as Take Off, Fiddle Time and Blown Away, teachers can deliver engaging instrumental lessons and share them with pupils to continue studying at home. Charanga Musical School is widely used by schools delivering whole class instrumental lessons as part of the curriculum. WCET is becoming harder to timetable as more and more schools request that it happens in the afternoon. This is not sustainable in the longer term. Continuation from WCET 2017-18 into small group/individual lessons 2018-19 Total number of pupils who received WCET in the previous academic year (2017/18) 2459 Total number of pupils who continued to learn to play a musical instrument in 2018/19 after they received WCET in 2017/18 490 The continuation rate is therefore 19.93 % Page 4 of 31 Instrumental & Vocal Tuition (small group/individual lessons) 2043 pupils received either small group or individual tuition in 2018/19 in school and a (very) small number at the Albemarle Music Centre. Of these pupils: 649 qualified for Pupil Premium, 227 have an SEND statement, 357 qualify for Free School Meal, 30 are Looked After Children in the care of the LA, and 282 have English as an Additional Language. Continuation from WCET is made possible by generous and on-going support for instrumental / vocal tuition by schools. The levels of deprivation in Hull are such that any sort of activity that relies on payment or travel by families is very hard, if not impossible to afford. Despite this, 282 (14%) took an exam in 2018/19 with either ABRSM, Trinity, RSL (Rock School) or London College of Music (LCM) Yorkshire Young Musicians provide progression routes for the more talented young musicians and 33 learned at the Albemarle on Sundays. All but 4 were in receipt of MDS Awards. Humberside Rotary Club provides a generous bursary scheme whereby young musicians receive free tuition for the whole of their High School Career. There were 20 students on this scheme in 2018/19 HMS provides an Advanced Tuition Scheme where young musicians achieving Grade VIII distinction have funded consultation lessons at a Conservatoire. 2 young people were on this scheme in 2018/19 HMS also provide some additional support for certain instruments, such as double bass and bassoon Closer work with key partners has developed in 2018/19 to provide alternative pathways. Beats Bus, Noise Academy and Freedom Road Creative Arts all work with harder to reach young people with significant results. The Beats Bus was the subject of a BBC Documentary in 2018 Page 5 of 31 Working in Partnership 2018-19 has seen a refreshing our partnership strategy, with a clear focus to make the organisation more outward facing.