
Primary School CPD Opportunities
ABRSM Classroom 200 KS1/2/3 (Generalist and specialist teachers)
Date: Thursday 8th June
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Venue: Zoom
Cost: free (subsidised by Herefordshire Music Education Hub & Encore)
This free online resource is great for KS1-3, with listening links and great activities. We will spend this session exploring how to use the website and will have a go at some of the activities.
Composing for the terrified! KS2 (Generalist classroom teachers)
Date: Autumn 2023
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Garway Primary School
Cost: £40 per teacher
This half day session is aimed at teachers who avoid composing with their class at all costs! It will start with a fun composing lesson with Garway children where you will take part in the lesson, understanding the process that they have to go through to create their own music. It is nothing to be scared of and will be aimed very much at general class teachers. No prior experience is necessary! We will then leave the children to go and discuss the difficulties of composing in a primary school, how to overcome some of these, and how to structure a composing lesson. You will be given a music skills progression and we will look at composing across the primary age range, understanding how the skills progress throughout the years. Please bring any handheld percussion instrument (such as a tambourine, maracas, wood block etc).
Composing for the terrified! KS1 (Generalist and specialist teachers)
Date: Autumn 2023
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Madley Primary School
Cost: £40 per teacher
This half day session is aimed at teachers who avoid composing with their class at all costs! It will start with a fun composing lesson with Madley children where you will take part in the lesson, understanding the process that they have to go through to create their own music. It is nothing to be scared of and will be aimed very much at general class teachers. No prior experience is necessary! We will then leave the children to go and discuss the difficulties of composing in a primary school, how to overcome some of these, and how to structure a composing lesson. You will be given a music skills progression and we will look at composing across the primary age range, understanding how the skills progress throughout the years. Please bring any handheld percussion instrument (such as a tambourine, maracas, wood block etc).