Tag: ambition

• The Story of “Performing Arts Leaders”

  

  In the summer of 2018 we surveyed many groups of people across our community to gauge opinion on a range of factors relating to Manor Performing Arts. One aspect was the summer production. The challenge is how we can have a summer performance event that has a positive impact on the learning and experience of…

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  4th Jul 2019

  Curriculum Design

  ambition, extra curricular, high school Musical, inspire, Leaders, production, purpose, Show

• Building the ‘Ultimate Extra’

  

  The ‘Extra’ is always a choice. I aspire to creating ‘Ultimate Extra’, which ensures every minute of every day is filled with opportunity. It is not contractual, however the difference it makes to every student and their wider community is so significant, it’s a choice worth making. The students are always my first thought, but…

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  6th Apr 2019

  Curriculum Design

  amazing, ambition, choice, community, competition, composition, creative, culture, education, experience, extra, GarageBand, gcse, growing, industry, inspire, iPad, KS3, life, music, performance, purpose, real-world, strategy, teacher, technology, ultimate

• ORASingers #PerfectInspiration

  

  Last night I was fortunate to be at LSO St Luke’s in London to listen to ORASingers. It was the second time I’ve experienced the choir live, the first being at Manchester Cathedral with 40 or so of our students (aged 13-15) in February 2018. After last night’s performance I tweeted: Why #perfectinspiration? For me,…

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  17th Mar 2019

  Curriculum Design

  ambition, composition, education, gcse, high school, inspire, music, ORASingers, performance, real-world, strategy

• A Real-World Solution To Create Impact In Music Progression

  

  This is specifically written for school leaders, for heads of music and for the parents of my GCSE music students. We’ll shortly be going into Year 9 mocks. Historically in a 3-year KS4, it has always felt too early to be awarding an attainment grade as the GCSE Music qualification requires much applied development of…

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  22nd Feb 2019

  Curriculum Design

  ambition, aqa, Assessment, education, gcse, grade, impact, implementation, model, music, performance, real-world, Showbie, strategy, student

• Harmony & Control: Real-world curriculum design to inspire confidence and ambition in music

  

  This term’s lessons for GCSE year 9 music are all about Harmony & Control. Control, though not an element of music, is one of the fundamental skills or levels of skill there is. Without it, the outcome is uncontrolled, messy or unintentional chaos. If we don’t model ‘control in music’, we should not be surprised…

  davelowemusiceducation

  16th Feb 2019

  Curriculum Design

  ambition, composition, control, education, gcse, inspire, iPad, music, production, real-world, technology

• A Wall of 2 Sides – increasing students’ learning ambition in Music

  

  One wall in the Manor music department is more important than any other. Side A – The Wall of Fame The Wall of Fame is a visual display to celebrate the achievements and progress of Music students choosing to study for graded exams. Students have a choice as to whether or not they would like…

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  2nd Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  abrsm, ambition, education, exams, grade, instrument, music, rock school, trinity, voice