Tag: high school

• Celebrating 10 years of progress to understand how to help all young people to make confident progress in music.

  

  To mark this 10th Anniversary of developments, I’ve decided to share the lockdown work of one of my year 10 students. I’m so grateful to the family for giving permission for the work to be shared. This is an amazing example of the musical learning and creation that’s been possible during the 8 weeks of…

  davelowemusiceducation

  5th Mar 2021

  Curriculum Design

  aqa, composition, Dave Lowe, high school, How To Write Great Music, lockdown, Mr Lowe, music, music education, PTP2021, PTProject2021, remote, theory, York

• A solution to help ‘students who are not actively playing or writing music’ to find confidence in the understanding of music theory and language

  

  This amount of learning is vast for an 11-12 year old student. That every single individual learner is engaged and wanting to do more, is awesome. The learning potential of this approach with the addition of Kahoot is amazing!

  davelowemusiceducation

  7th Mar 2020

  Assessment, Curriculum Design

  amazing, aqa, awesome, gcse, high school, independent, Kahoot, Kahoot!, KS3, learning, music, music for all, opportunity, theory, tool

• 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,…

  davelowemusiceducation

  17th Mar 2019

  Curriculum Design

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

• Inventiveness & Creativity

  

  Having launched the new iPad Music competition last Sunday, I’ve spent the week discussing the concepts of inventiveness and creativity with my students. I chose these two words as they explain a meaning of “exceptionally creative”, which is given in the top-band on the mark scheme for AQA GCSE Music Composition. A student who is…

  davelowemusiceducation

  2nd Feb 2019

  Curriculum Design

  aqa, composition, education, gcse, high school, iPad, KS3, music, real-world, student, technology

• A Practical Model to Grow Confidence in Music for Young People Aged 11-16

  

  Over the last 8 years in my current school, I’ve been continually looking for ways to improve the experience of my music students. Every one of them is unique, no matter ability, demographic or experience of life. A one-size-fits-all model would have failed within minutes so I’ve developed a flexible, customisable model for every individual…

  davelowemusiceducation

  13th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  amazing, composition, education, experience, gcse, high school, industry, iPad, KS3, model, music, musician, performance, purpose, real-world, strategy, student, technique, technology

• Year 8 “Production” Launched

  

  This first week of 2019 has seen the launch of our exciting new “Production” unit in KS3 music at Manor. The unit gives students the opportunity to explore the type of work they might do on our new GCSE Music Production Via Technology Pathway. It could also be the first step of development towards a…

  davelowemusiceducation

  12th Jan 2019

  Curriculum Design

  aqa, curriculum, GarageBand, gcse, high school, industry, iPad, KS3, music, production, technology