Youth Music Forum Report 2013
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YOUTH MUSIC FORUM REPORT 2013 EDLC CULTURAL SERVICES QUAVERS MUSIC WORKSHOP PART ONE: MACHINE 3 – 5 YEARS 2 3 INTRODUCTION AIMS Report on a Consultation (October 2012 – March 2013) to 1.3 2.1 Support the Development of a Youth Music Forum (YMF) in East Dunbartonshire In the formal sector, primary and secondary schools To establish a Youth Music Forum which will support and Douglas School of Music provide a range of high the formal and informal sectors to work together for the 1.1 quality music provision for young people through benefit of the community and in particular, young people YMI, instrumental music instruction and music in the aged up to twenty five years. A Youth Music Forum (YMF) to support the formal curriculum. Every secondary school provides a variety of and informal (groups unconnected to mainstream ensembles, orchestras, bands and choirs through extra education) sectors in working together to the benefit curricular provision. The Instrumental Music Service 2.2 of the community and in particular, young people aged provides young people with instrumental instruction, up to twenty five years, will be established in East residential courses and high profile performance To audit the current music provision for young people Dunbartonshire (ED) and supported by Creative Scotland’s opportunities. across the formal and informal sectors in order to inform Youth Music Initiative (YMI). This development is being the development of a Youth Music Forum which will undertaken by East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture support discussion and information sharing, and work Trust (EDLC), an arms length charitable trust responsible 1.4 in partnership to ensure high quality opportunities are for the operation, management and delivery of Leisure provided for young people. and Cultural Services throughout East Dunbartonshire. Questions to be considered are: The development of the YMF will be informed through the key findings of a consultation with all stakeholders, A. Are all young people who want to access musical 2.3 in the formal and informal sectors, which took place opportunities able to do so? and between October 2012 and March 2013. During the To engage the YMF with current East Dunbartonshire consultation, stakeholders were invited to comment on B. Through working in partnership, what could the Youth networks including The Creative Learning Network, The existing music provision and to suggest what additional Music Forum in East Dunbartonshire do to improve and Film Forum and national music organisations. musical opportunities could be provided. It is hoped increase music opportunities for young people? that an outcome of the establishment of the YMF will be to improve and increase the provision of musical 2.4 opportunities for young people through partnership working between the formal and informal sectors. To explore how the musical aspirations of young people can be met through the work of the YMF. 1.2 2.5 East Dunbartonshire has a population of 104,570 people of whom 35,754 are under thirty. The main centres of To establish how the YMF can be supported to achieve the population are Bearsden, Milngavie, Bishopbriggs, recommendations within this report. Kirkintilloch, Lenzie and the villages (Twechar, Milton of Campsie and Lennoxtown). There are twenty pre- five establishments, thirty six primary schools, eight secondary schools, two additional support needs schools (ASN ) and one college campus of further education. In the informal sector, eight choirs, fourteen bands and orchestras, seven musical societies and clubs, three music schools and three music groups for babies and young children provide additional music provision in the community. EDLC CULTURAL SERVICES QUAVERS MUSIC WORKSHOP PART ONE: MACHINE 3 – 5 YEARS 4 5 3.6 YOUTH MUSIC The P6 target in East Dunbartonshire and how it is achieved INITIATIVE – Following a review in year nine of the YMI there was a consultation with head teachers resulting in a revised programme. All primary 4/5 pupils receive a block of BACKGROUND lessons providing: • Basic rhythm and literacy; 3.1 3.3 • Practical music making through percussion; and The Youth Music Initiative (YMI) was launched in 2003 by The remaining 20% of YMI money was available to • Improvisation. the then First Minister, Jack McConnell. The Scottish Arts informal sector organisations working outwith the Council, becoming Creative Scotland in July 2010, Youth school environment. Some organisations (the National Following the P4/5 programme, a four week samba- Music UK and the Musicians Union jointly commissioned Youth Music Making organisations, or NYMMOs) were based programme is offered to P6 pupils building on their an audit of youth music in Scotland which was reported in considered to have national importance in the youth music experience from P4/5 Programme. The samba workshops the document, “What’s Going On?” (Scottish Arts Council sector and were funded directly. These were: culminate in a performance that is filmed or recorded. “What’s Going On” Music Report). On the basis of the In response to requests from some head teachers the report’s conclusions, the Scottish Government (then the • The National Youth Choir of Scotland; samba workshops also included basic introduction to Scottish Executive) pledged an initial seventeen and a half drum-kits. Under the Youth Music Initiative programme million pounds over three years to launch the YMI. The • The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland; the following projects were offered to certain Primary report identified ‘priorities’ and ‘gap areas’ in provision Schools in addition to the core provision: which the newly-formed YMI had to take into account, for • The National Youth Pipe Band; and example composition, primary school tuition and music • Double bass/bass guitar project (2 schools); technology. • Feis Rois. • Endangered species bassoon project (1 school); 3.2 3.4 • Additional instrumental teaching to address unmet needs (4 schools); and The P6 Target From 2004, other organisations were also able to apply to the Informal Sector Fund. This fund is open to any • The Chalumeau clarinet project (3 schools). The Scottish Executive set a major target for the YMI: organisation that wants to develop music making projects ‘by 2006, all school children in Scotland should have - whether large or small scale. In the first three years of access to one year’s free music tuition by the time they the YMI, around 65 informal sector projects were funded, reach Primary 6’. ranging from recording and DJing in Wick to mandolin workshops in South Lanarkshire. Projects have been run 80% of the YMI’s seventeen and a half million (£17.5 by youth clubs, charities and community groups as well as million) was awarded directly to local authorities to youth music organisations. improve youth music provision in schools in order to meet the P6 target. This is known as the ‘Formula Fund’ as money is allocated to each authority according to a 3.5 formula (based on number of pupils and rural weighting). Local Authorities continue to receive annual funding to Every local authority met the P6 target, and in January ensure that the P6 target is sustained. The funding for 2007 the Scottish Executive’s “P6 Target Report’ was East Dunbartonshire is managed by the Instrumental published. Based on data provided by each local Music Service Manager who applies and reports annually authority, the report describes how the target was met to Creative Scotland Youth Music Initiative. in each area. (see Scottish Arts Council website for East Dunbartonshire data) EDLC CULTURAL SERVICES QUAVERS MUSIC WORKSHOP PART ONE: MACHINE 3 – 5 YEARS 6 7 CONSULTATION FINDINGS FROM PROCESS ON-LINE QUESTIONNAIRES Between September 2012 and January 2013, research 4.2 5.1 Primary Head Teachers 5.3 Secondary 1 and 2 Pupils was carried out using a variety of methods: on-line questionnaires; one to one meetings; and focus groups. Focus Group Meetings: Twenty nine of the thirty six primary schools completed A small sample of seventy four S1 and S2 secondary the survey. It established that a wide variety of pupils from two schools completed the survey. Of 4.1 • S6 secondary pupils; and instruments are taught within primary schools through those who responded, thirty were learning to play an the Instrumental Music Service with the largest number instrument. Of those pupils not learning to play, thirty On-line Questionnaire • Informal sector groups. of pupils being taught stringed instruments. Schools three indicated they would like to learn an instrument identified percussion as being the medium through which with guitar, piano/keyboard and drums the most popular The following were invited to complete an on line the Youth Music Initiative is delivered. Twenty three of the choice. In response to reasons why they don’t play an questionnaire: 4.3 primary schools who responded have bands, orchestras, instrument, the pupils commented that they didn’t know ensembles and choirs, with choirs/singing being of any opportunities, they were too shy, they couldn’t • Primary head teachers – twenty nine respondents; One to One Meetings: predominant, and ten schools benefit from specialist afford it or that they couldn’t read music. non-instrumental music provision. In response to the • Primary seven (P7) pupils – four hundred and sixty • Principal teachers of music or faculty head of question: “What if anything is missing musically from your It should be noted that S1 and S2 pupils in all secondary three respondents representing twenty two primary performing arts representing all eight secondary school?”, head teachers identified input from specialist schools participate in the ‘Pathway to Percussion schools; schools; and music teachers and for training for non specialists. Some Project’, delivered through the Instrumental Music Service headteachers said they did not have a clear understanding YMI provision. The pupils surveyed had attended twenty • First and second year secondary school pupils – • Manager of the Instrumental Music Service of the YMI and the P6 target provision for their pupils.