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Building Partnerships: Broadening Provision through Community Music-Making and the Wider Sector | The Secondary Music Teaching Series

  • 9th June 2026
  • 5-6.30pm
  • Online (Zoom).

Jenetta Hurst leads delegates through an interactive session to share true areas for development, planning, assessing provision and sharing good practice.

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This session is framed on one of the three pledges that schools will agree to if they receive a Music Mark of Recognition from their music service.

[Our School/ Academy…] Welcome opportunities to broaden our musical horizons by working with providers in our community and beyond.

Jenetta Hurst will lead delegates through an interactive session, there will be opportunity to interrogate true areas for development, plan, assess provision and share good practice.

Key areas of focus will include:

  • the identification of quality partnerships in the community and wider sector
  • utilising the school music development plan as a tool for growth and expansion of the music offer in all settings
  • case studies of successful partnerships and collaborations
  • identifying potential challenges, solutions and effective leadership of high-quality community collaborations

Take-aways:

  • Guidance to select partnerships led by student need incorporating youth voice
  • Actionable steps to lead high-quality partnerships
  • Effective strategies for fostering and maintaining an effective partnership creating a sustained legacy

About Jenetta

Jenetta Hurst is a music specialist, flautist and school leader with 19 years’ experience leading secondary music in a range of settings. Jenetta sits on the Strategic Board of Lambeth Sounds Music Education Hub and is an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Conservatoire.

In the interim, you can connect with Jenetta directly via her website as well as view blogs, past projects and creative interviews with a range of practitioners at The Creative Educator website.


Accessibility

  • Technology: Zoom
  • Captioning: AI-Generated
  • Breakout rooms: TBC; this is a interactive meeting however.
  • Recording: No.

If you would like to request presentation slides, questions and provocations in advance of the session, or have any accessibility needs you would like us to know in advance, please get in touch with us by emailing info@musicmark.org.uk. Please note that speakers may decline sharing details, slides and other information on the basis of protecting their intellectual property or for other reasons and we cannot therefore guarantee availability of these resources for all events.

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Music Mark Members: Free

Non-Members: £22.50(+vat).

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We are a membership organisation, Subject Association, and an Arts Council England Investment Principles Support Organisation (IPSO) advocating for excellent musical learning in and out of school.

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