Summer Beats- Hardly Any Sunshine
Been really busy of late delivering summer music workshops. It has been intense, and after a rockyish start, things have gone well. The outcomes have …
Music Igniter End of Phase 1
Day 12 Music Igniter Evaluation Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot What an emotional day! Wednesday 11th July marked the end of the first phase of the …
Day 10: Working in Health Settings
Day 10: Working in Health Settings Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot “Working in Health Settings: Participants will be guided though some of the special considerations in …
Update
As the summer term draws to a close, I have started to become a little anxious about projects for autumn- there might be some free …
Music Igniter Day 7: Leadership & group skills
Music Igniter Originally uploaded by Bobbalinhot. Day 7: Participants will look at leadership, planning, behaviour and groupwork skills. We drove down to Stoke to investigate …
Dilemmas, shouting and more work in the pipeline
I am in a bit of turmoil as to whether I go for the PGCE/GTP or keep going as a free-lancer. The arguments for both …
Music Igniter Day 6: Ensemble & performance: participants will do practical workshops involving leading groups towards improvised performance.
Sid Peacock joined us to show us some workshop delivery techniques in improvisation using graphic scores, and lots of other fun ideas. We then spent …
Music Igniter Course Day 5 Songwriting: working in small groups students will devise a number of songs from different starting points.
We looked at different ways in getting participants to compose original pieces. Firstly we did some vocal exercises with PM using pentatonic scales. He played …
The Sound Health Series
An interesting read on how music can improve student’s cognitive abilities. Maybe I should play some classical or baroque music in my troublesome schools.
