This CPD is run by the company Wonderful Beats and is based on their Sing me a Story event. It will explore how to make stories magical through music!
We’ll be thinking through the key principles of musical storytelling, exploring the ways in which we can bring stories to life using sounds, songs and instruments. We’ll then have a go at mapping a story musically, devising and delivering it together in a safe supportive environment. Bring your voice, and an instrument if you have one!
This CPD will follow a performance at Roman Hill Primary School with their nursery class of the Sing Me a Story event which will take place earlier on the same day 1.30pm – 2.30pm. It is recommended that anyone attending the later CPD session should come to this earlier performance as well.
Who is the session for?
Early years practitioners (teachers, nursery staff, children centre staff) who want to gather inspiration and ideas for music and storytelling activities in their contexts.
To attend:
To book a place please email meg.barclay@norfolk.gov.uk and state if you want to attend both the performance and CPD or just the CPD.
Can’t make this date? There is a similar CPD at St George’s Primary School in Great Yarmouth on Monday 27 January.
This CPD is run by the company Wonderful Beats and is based on their Sing me a Story event. It will explore how to make stories magical through music!
We’ll be thinking through the key principles of musical storytelling, exploring the ways in which we can bring stories to life using sounds, songs and instruments. We’ll then have a go at mapping a story musically, devising and delivering it together in a safe supportive environment. Bring your voice, and an instrument if you have one!
This CPD will follow a performance at St George’s Primary School with their nursery class of the Sing Me a Story event which will take place earlier on the same day 1.30pm – 2.30pm. It is recommended that anyone attending the later CPD session should come to this earlier performance as well.
Who is the session for?
Early years practitioners (teachers, nursery staff, children centre staff) who want to gather inspiration and ideas for music and storytelling activities in their contexts.
To attend:
To book a place please email meg.barclay@norfolk.gov.uk and state if you want to attend both the performance and CPD or just the CPD.
Can’t make this date? There is a repeat of the CPD at Roman Hill Primary School in Lowestoft on Tuesday 28 January.
The Firespinners boys’ choir will be singing at the Gorleston Library on Saturday 7th December from 2.30-3pm.
This CPD event is available free of charge to all schools signed up to any Hub Subscription Package or £75 otherwise.
As part of our continued support for music education in your area, Norfolk Music Hub and Charanga – winner of the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence: Best Digital/Technological Resource – are delighted to invite you to a Charanga Musical School Sing – Vocal CPD & Training session to discover how Charanga can fully support modern music teaching.
Extensive research has shown the undeniably positive impact singing has on emotional, physical and mental wellbeing.
In this session we will look at how Charanga Sing, with it’s ever growing bank of over 500 songs for all ages, groupings and styles, can encourage more singing in your school every day – not just for those special performances. The course will also look at vocal health by taking care of the voice with fantastic body and vocal warm-ups and exercises.
This course is extremely popular so please don’t miss out!
Venue: Moorlands Academy, Great Yarmouth, NR31 9PA
Date/Time: Thursday 16 January, 4pm – 5.30pm
There are limited places for this event so please ensure you register now via Charanga.
Just Play: building essential musical skills is Musical Futures’ “first access” programme for both teachers and students. One of our most popular programmes, Just Play is designed to build holistic musical skills and an understanding of how to play as a whole class band using ukulele, keyboard, guitar and bass (but can be adapted for whatever instruments you have access to in your classroom).
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The day includes:
A teachers guide and resource packs containing:
Please note: This full day’s training from Musical Futures also incorporates our Everyone Can Play entry level whole class ukulele approach in addition to Just Play.
Aims of the Course
Our Just Play training will demonstrate how to engage students in whole class music making using our a simple step by step Just Play resource – supporting the development of instrumental skills on drums, guitar, bass, keyboard and ukulele, using music that students like, enjoy and identify with. As the students rotate regularly, they all play each instrument ensuring a level of challenge and breadth of experience, whatever their level of ability:
- Discover the differentiation opportunities within the Just Play resource which make it ideally suited to students of from ages 8-14.
- Explore the Just Play Playalongs contained in the resources – a great way to get students playing together as a large group and provide a safety net for BOTH students and teachers to experiment with whole class music making allowing everyone to take part, regardless of prior musical experience.
- Increase numbers of students taking up instrumental lessons on a wider range of instruments
- Increase student participation in concerts and performances
- Better engagement with classroom music for all ages
- Greater satisfaction in relation to your own teaching and musicianship
For primary music specialists:
Just Play can be adapted for use with a range of instruments within the primary classroom – our training ensures that you are equipped to use the resource back in your school using a variety of instruments.
For secondary music teachers:
This is a great way to build basic instrumental skills on a range of instruments commonly found in the secondary classroom and is ideal for use with ages 11-14 (years 7 – 9).
For instrumental teachers:
Just Play can be adapted by teachers engaged in small group or Whole Class Learning.
Are you studying music at GCSE or BTEC level in Great Yarmouth?
Would you like to gain your Grade 5 Music Theory?
We are offering free Music Theory tuition on a Tuesday afternoon 4pm – 5.30pm with our specialist tutors at East Norfolk Sixth Form College in Gorleston.
The course will run from Tuesday 24th September and is aimed at students wishing to start an A-Level course in September 2020 or 2021.
In association with Orchestras Live and North Norfolk District Council, we present Sinfonia Viva at St Catherine’s Church in Ludham.
Come along to hear beautiful music in a beautiful rural church, with pieces from a diverse range of composers in an orchestral programme with a twist of folk music provided by local musicians.
Programme:
Haydn Symphony No.59 ‘Fire’
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in Eb
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
Saint-George Allegro from Symphony No.1
Mozart Symphony No.29
Concert Director: Sophie Rosa
Haydn’s Symphony No.59 ‘Fire’ ignites proceedings with a rising and falling of intense scales, backed by a driving rhythm that showcases the power of the orchestra as a musical force. Fanny Mendelssohn’s wrought and intricate Quartet for Strings showcases an undercurrent of emotional weight that exudes beauty and musical candour. Bartok’s colourful and lively Romanian Folk Dances draws inspiration from Eastern Europe’s rich folk tradition and has become one of the composer’s most beloved works. Saint-George’s intricate Symphony No.1 showcases the dynamic range and virtuosity of the orchestra’s string section, weaving notes into a rich tapestry melody and emotion. The programme closes with one of Mozart’s known early symphonies and an absolute landmark in his career and music history, Symphony No.29.
Tickets:
£12 in advance / £15 on the door
Free for under 18s.
Available in person from Ludham butchers (01692 678226) or at sinfoniaviva.co.uk.
The orchestra will be hosting an open rehearsal to pupils from Ludham Primary School ahead of the concert, allowing them to experience live orchestral music first-hand.
Norwich Young Voices will be joining The Orchestrate! Project in their performance at Cliff Park Community Church’s annual Carol Service event at Gorleston Pavilion Theatre.
This is a free and informal service with coffee and mince pies.
The event will include:
Community Carol singing
Performances from orchestra and choir
Bible reading
Talk from a Minister Testimony shared by a member of Cliff Park Community Church.
An evening of music, drama and dance by East Norfolk students.
Tickets £5 each for adults, children £1
Box office: stgeorgestheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873606618
Any money made from the event will go back into supporting students in the Performing Arts/Media areas.
A concert of solos and ensembles from jazz to pop to classical featuring a choir and funk band from the students of East Norfolk.
Tickets are £3, available on the door.
