Spring Term 2019 Cornwall Music Education Hub Update Welcome to the Spring 2019 Newsletter! The Autumn term was a busy time for us at the Cornwall Music Education Hub with our annual Autumn Conference, held this year at the Royal Cornwall Showground, plus our GCSE Concerts at the Redruth Regal and Launceston Town Hall. We hope you enjoy the photos and update of our recent projects and we look forward to seeing you at some of our forthcoming events! About the Cornwall Music Education Hub The Cornwall Music Education Hub, a partnership of organisations led by Cornwall Council, is funded by the Department for Education, through Arts Council England, to support schools across Cornwall with their music education. The Cornwall Music Education Hub does not deliver instrumental tuition but helps children and young people to engage with inspiring musical learning through a variety of ways such as projects, workshops, events, ensembles and choirs, training for school staff, funding for whole class instrumental teaching, subsidies for lessons and a large stock of instruments available to hire. For information about how the Hub can support you, visit our website: www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org or email [email protected] Music Curriculum and Ofsted Update In October 2018, Ofsted announced a new inspection framework to come into effect from September 2019. This framework will bring an increased focus on the curriculum and less emphasis on exam results and grades. Ofsted Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, said about the changes in an interview to BBC Breakfast, "What matters here is that results are achieved in the right way. That children are being taught a really good curriculum, and taught it really well. Where schools have the confidence to do that - good results will flow”..."At the moment, there's a relatively small focus on curriculum, and we don't see some of the subjects that are getting lost." The Ofsted presentation given at the recent Music Mark conference can be found on the Music Mark website - https://www.musicmark.org.uk/marketplace/conference- presentations/ National bodies such as Music Mark are suggesting that a shift in focus to a more ‘broad, rich and deep’ curriculum will be good news for subjects such as Music, which recent research suggests is being squeezed out of the curriculum in some schools. It also comes ahead of a new model music curriculum for 5-14 year olds, currently being developed by a panel of experts including Julian Lloyd Webber, which will be launched in Summer 2019. Cornwall Music Education Hub Chy Trevail, Room North 2, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road Bodmin PL31 2FR. T: 01872 327351 Email: [email protected] www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org 1 Vocal Strategy Update Free support for singing Introducing the Mini Singers! As part of the Hub’s ongoing Vocal Strategy we Last Term we introduced our all new Mini Singers sessions, led by are offering schools free support through the Alice Browning and Lindsay Eddy. Following the exceptional level of School Engagement Vocal Outreach Workshops, interest about joining this group we have now added all with the aim of visiting every primary school in Mini-Singers Information, Schedules and Sign Up Forms to our Cornwall over the academic year. These free in website! We are thrilled that these sessions been so popular and whilst our current sessions are now fully booked, we are still taking school one-hour vocal workshops, usually for contact forms so any parents that would like to get their child KS2, aim to help schools to develop their singing involved can be contacted when space becomes available. All Mini and are delivered by one of the Hub’s Vocal Singers information is NOW available on our website — Leaders. Our team are now contacting schools www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org/ensembles-choirs/cornwall- to arrange visits but please contact the Hub county-choirs/ office if you would like to arrange a visit The Hub’s countywide celebration of singing, Songfest, Concerts dates: is returning this Spring with another series of concerts in venues across Cornwall. At this year’s Songfest the Penzance, St Johns Hall – Tuesday 26th & Wednesday massed choirs will be singing songs from Lin Marsh’s 27th February 2019 Stage and Screen Songscape and will also feature Newquay View Resort – Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th performances by local soloists and vocal groups from March 2019 local secondary schools. Launceston Town Hall – Wednesday 13th March 2019 Redruth Regal – Wednesday 27th March 2019 Falmouth Methodist – Thursday 28th March 2019 Plymouth Pavilions – Tuesday 2nd April 2019 Box Office details are available on our website - www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org/events- projects/songfest-vocal-showcases/ 2 Cornwall County Choirs In order to support the progression of singers across the county, the Cornwall Music Education Hub offers a network of choirs operating throughout Cornwall for boys and girls. All our choirs are led by experienced vocal specialists and have many performance opportunities. The choirs are open to singers aged 8-19 who attend school/college in Cornwall. There is an annual membership fee of £80 (£100 for the Youth Choir), payable in September each year (subsidies are available for children on Free School Meals, Children in Care and children of Services Families). Our choirs operate satellite groups from Penzance to Saltash, meeting locally fortnightly and in Truro once a month: Boys Choir Groups - Penzance, Saltash, Truro, Penryn, St Dennis Girls Choir Groups - Penzance, Saltash, Truro, Penryn, St Austell, Wadebridge Further information about our choirs and how to get involved can be found on: www.cornwallmusiceducationhub.org/ensembles-choirs/cmeh-county-choirs Featured Instrument: The Violin! This term’s featured instrument is the Violin, one of the oldest instruments within the Strings family! We have a range of sizes available for the termly hire rate of £21.60. Class sets of violins (in all sizes) are available for hire at the subsidised rate of £70 per term, including delivery. For more information or to arrange hire please contact us – [email protected] 3 Upcoming Conferences South West Peninsula Music Education Conference This annual event for music teachers and leaders of Cornwall and Devon will once again be taking place at the Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre, St Cuthbert’s. Date -Friday 8th February 2019, 8.45am to 3.45pm A day of practical and inspiring sessions, to book, go to- www.babcock-education.co.uk/ldp/cpd Cornwall Music Service Trust Primary Conference The Cornwall Music Education Hub will once again be supporting the CMST annual Primary Music conference. For all Primary School Teachers and Music Leaders, a full day of practical sessions directly transferrable to the classroom. Led by Christine Judge & guest presenters, Please register for your place with Ian Bowden at: [email protected] Price - £75 per delegate Date - 21st March 2019 9am -3pm Venue - Sands Resort, Newquay 4 Future Projects and Events Hubbub 2019 Don’t forget to put this year’s Hubbub festivals in your diary: Hubbub North at Wadebridge - 24th & 25th June 2019 Hubbub West at Heartlands - 10th & 11th July 2019 The Hub returns to Heartlands in Pool on the 10th & 11th July for our annual music festival for children and young people, and following the success of Hubbub North last year, we will be returning to The Royal Cornwall Showground on 24th and 25th June. As in previous years, we are inviting schools from across Cornwall to bring classes of students, as well as home educated groups, to take part in a day of workshops featuring instruments from around the world. Workshops include: African Music and Dance, Beatboxing, Bhangra, Gamelan and Indonesian Dance, Rainbow Pond Music for Early Years, Samba, Street Dance, Taiko Drumming, Bookings will be opening soon and places filled on a first come first served basis. 5 News and Future Projects Scratch Electric Kernow Between September and December 2018 Scratch Electric Kernow organised 28 electric guitar workshops for young electric guitarists aged between 9 – 25 years across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. During that time five showcase concerts took place at - The Keay Theatre, St Austell College, Livewire Youth Music Project, Saltash and Heartlands, Redruth where the young musicians received a standing ovation. A showcase for pupils and staff at Five Islands Academy on the Isles of Scilly was followed by a public showcase for the island community. The final showcase, postponed from Penryn in November, will now take place on Saturday 9 February 7.30pm at the Burrell Theatre in Tru- ro. Electric Guitar Orchestra in Concert With 40 musicians on stage this unique Orchestra of massed electric guitars showcases the work of young & emerging guitarists (aged 9-25 yrs) from across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly who have created new music with professional support. This final concert brings together groups from dBs Music in Pool, Cornwall College in St Austell and Livewire Youth Music Project in Saltash who will perform their own exciting music as well as a new piece inspired by Jimi Hendrix. Join us for an uplifting evening of contemporary electric guitar music with a big, big sound! SCRATCH ELECTRIC KERNOW is a new Cornwall-wide music project where young guitarists have participated in workshop programmes at five hubs across Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. They have gained skills, created new pieces for electric guitar orchestra and for some this is the opportunity to perform in public for the first time! Tickets £5 /£3 Under 21s Box Office – CRBO 01726 879500 Online – www.crbo.co.uk/scratch www.scratchelectric.com Support for Schools A key role of the Hub is to support schools with developing their music education, both in and out of the classroom. We have commissioned four Music Curriculum specialists to work with schools, either through projects or one off training visits.