I have been working with students from Holyhead School over the last 2 weeks to compose songs inspired by Holst’s The Planets. All students went to a CBSO performance of it a few weeks ago, this was our composition stimuli. At the start of the workshops I gave participants the option to compose about planets [...]
June, 2008
Young Music Leaders: Peer to Peer learning in Music
The music manifesto website peeps have uploaded a great video about students (at a secondary school in Surrey) discussing the benefits of peer to peer music tuition. I think it’s a great idea to have a weekly club where young people can share ideas and mentor one another to achieve music creations!! I wish some [...]
Media Snackers 2nd Birthday Shenanigans
Today I went along to Cardiff to celebrate the 2nd birthday of MediaSnackers- an innovative, pioneering force behind the fusing of social media, youth led organisations and education. It was lovely to hang with the gang, and learn about the past, present and future intentions DK has for the company. It was nice to learn how Media Snackers [...]