Music Mark
The UK Association for Music Education
Correspondence Address:
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PO Box 800
WINCHESTER
SO23 3RY
We are pleased to present our first ever Annual Review for the academic year 2019/20. Read more about what we have been doing over the past academic year for our members and the wider music education sector, and how we plan to continue to support, connect, and influence in future.
As part of the Hub Support Programme, we provide Chairs with both practical advice and support on being a chair, alongside relevant information on the sector.
Music Mark conducted a quick survey of its English membership music services at the start of October to see how engagement with schools was compared to the start of the 2019/20 academic year. We have published the results and report here.
A letter template available in English and Welsh to send to schools advocating for the continuation of musical learning in schools under the risk assessments and safety guidance of Music Unlocked.
Sing Up and Music Mark commissioned Professor Martin Ashley to write some up-to-date guidance for schools in relation to managing coronavirus risks associated with singing for the start of the new academic year. We have deliberately waited until there was some concrete evidence to base this guidance on, and Professor Ashley has provided his guidance in the light of research published 20.08.20.
We’re pleased to announce our new Music Education Hub Support Programme in partnership with and funded by Arts Council England.
We have created a template to help you write to your local MP regarding music education in schools for the academic year 20/21.
We hosted our first entirely digital Summer Summit on 26th June 2020. There were speakers from ACE, DfE, Music Teacher’s Association and the wider Music Education sector. We discussed key topics relating to funding, music education in schools and the possibilities for ensemble learning now. Listen again here!
In addition to our Music Unlocked guidance these risk assessments have been prepared for use by Music Mark Members to support with the safe return to Music Teaching in schools.
Music Mark has worked alongside independent Music Education consultant Gary Griffiths to compile COVID-19 related guidance. We have reviewed academic studies, and consulted our Members, the Music Teachers’ Association, the Music Industries Association, the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Musicians’ Union, as well as individual sector experts, headteachers and teachers.
The latest news from Music Mark HQ!
Following on from her article for Music Mark, Rachel Pink leads a webinar focusing on techniques to boost wellbeing and resilience in the light of the current pandemic. Rachel explores how to create personalised self-care plans to aid viewers through these challenging times and beyond. And how to better communicate with...
Two supplements to Nigel M Taylor’s Developing Organisational Resilience document.
In light of the unprecedented challenges to “normal” ways of working, thinking and planning,
brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the brief for this supplement was to:
• Offer some thoughts to music education organisations on dealing with the “now”
• Discuss an emerging trend, and some associated issues
• Set out a few thoughts on the future
• Remind colleagues of the original Organisational Resilience document
The supplements cannot, and will not, pretend to be comprehensive. Instead, the can only be a
snapshot-response to a brief set in the most fast-paced of changing scenarios and challenges. Its
contents are, for the most part, common sense. But its intention is to try to be helpful in these most turbulent of times.
Arts Council have funded Supplement #2 (July 2020) to support Hubs in creating their business stabilisation plans.
Music Mark has collated information on how Music Education providers can adapt their provision for online learning including some key safeguarding considerations for this new way of working.
The latest information available on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Music Mark’s 2019 Conference took place in Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield exploring the theme, ‘Play the Bigger Game’.
Music Mark and the Musicians’ Union are delighted to launch a set of three guides which will provide advice and guidance to organisations who are engaging the music education workforce.
Speech by Bridget Whyte at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Music Education (APPG) forum, October 16th 2019.
The following advice has been given to Music Mark by its Advice Partner BWB and by Music Mark Trustee and Head of Wigan Music Service Dave Little.
Following a series of consultations involving its members over a 3 week period, Music Mark has produced this Consultation Paper to inform the Department of Education’s (DfE) Expert Panel for the development of a Model Music Curriculum.
The DfE and MERYC-ENGLAND joined discussions on a refreshed National Plan for Music Education.
Presentation on HR and Contract Law, from the Music Mark afternoon training session led by Advice Partners Bates Wells Braithwaite, as part of the Music Mark Leadership Development Programme.
UPDATED: A guide for Music Hubs by Nigel M Taylor, commissioned by Music Mark and supported by Arts Council England, as part of Music Mark’s wider Leadership Development Programme.
Music Mark shares its October 2018 consultation of its members on the future of the National Plan for Music Education, pulled together by Music Mark Trustee Maureen Hanke.
These General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) templates were produced as part of Music Mark’s Training on GDPR, led by Advice Partners Bates Wells.
Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET) Research Report, commissioned by Music Mark and with Arts Council funding, lead by Professor Martin Fautley from Birmingham City University.
Watch Dr Ally Daubney and Duncan Mackrill (University of Sussex) revealing the key findings of their research into changes in music provision in secondary schools.
Research and film clips illustrating successful approaches to Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET)
ReadThis is a useful resource for members in supporting professional practice and development by combining case studies and top-tips for teaching and learning.
We conceived of a programme that would connect London’s music teachers with each other in a way that transcended the barriers of their school gates.
ReadThis is a useful resource for members in supporting professional practice and development by combining case studies and top-tips for teaching and learning.
Working with Nigel Taylor, Music Mark developed a system that can be used to audit a school’s music provision.
The Musical Bridges Programme, originally funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, provided resources, ideas, case studies as well as a comprehensive programme of transition activity to support pupils’ continuing musical journey from primary to secondary school.
As part of the Peer-to-Peer CPD Programme, Music Mark developed a progression framework to aid teachers in planning for musical progress.
A Common Approach is a valuable teaching resource for an instrumental / vocal curriculum. Building on the experience and expertise of many teachers nationally, it sets out thoughts on a rationale for instrumental / vocal teaching, curriculum content and teaching strategies
An article published by National Governors’ Association in the September 2015 edition of Governing Matters explains what governors can do to ensure all pupils receive their musical entitlement.
Music Mark brought together colleagues from a range of education organisations to consider the production of some brief guidance for schools and music education hubs on how music in schools might be further developed and improved.
This booklet summarises the 10 key benefits of music, from recognition within the ‘National Plan for Music Education ‘ that music is an educational building block through to the inclusive nature of music irrespective of abilities.
Music Mark has collaborated with the National Governors’ Association and Arts Council England to create two guidance documents for governors in schools.
Music Mark has collaborated with the National Governors’ Association and Arts Council England to create two guidance documents for governors in schools.
