The Chance of a Lifetime

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The Chance of a Lifetime

• NAME AST conference July 2008

Richard Hallam
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• Better Music Education for More Young People
• The Best Music Education for Every Young Person

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• The pursuit of excellence but with realistic
  expectations
• The problem isnt that we aim too high and fail,
  but that we dont aim high enough and succeed.

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• 1998 Music Standards Fund
• 2001 Blunkett pledge
• 2003 Seconded as music adviser to DfES
• 2004 Ofsted report
• 2004 QCA units of work
• 2004 David Miliband Music Manifesto
• 2006 3m to begin to meet the pledge
• OU/Trinity CPD programme
• 2006 Key Stage 2 Instrumental and Vocal Tuition
  guidance

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• October 2006 Music Manifesto Report No 2
• November 2006 charging legislation amended
• January 2007 Alan Johnson State of Play
  conference
• April 2007 23m to help meet the pledge
• July 2007 Revised guidance for KS2IVT
• November 2007 332m over 3 years for music
  education
• November 2007 Standards Fund grant 1.11
• November 2007 National Singing Programme Sing
  Up
• November 2007 40m for instruments

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• December 2007 Aspirations, Support and Delivery
• January 2008 National Music Participation
  Director
• April 2008 NMPD in post
• October 24th 2008 basic data

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• June 2008 5 Music Partnership Projects
• Bristol Devon London (10) Manchester (4)
  Staffordshire
• 25m for 10 Find Your Talent pilots
• Bolton Creative Foundation (Kent Shepway,
  Folkestone Hythe and Romney Marsh) Customs
  House (N S Tyneside) Hampshire (Portsmouth and
  Southampton) Leeds Leicester and
  Leicestershire Liverpool and region London
  Tower Hamlets North Somerset Telford and
  Wrekin
• 3m In Harmony meeting tomorrow!

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• DCMS
• 3 strategic objectives
• More widespread Enjoyment of Culture
• Supporting Talent and Excellence
• Realising the Economic Benefits

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• DCSF
• Every Child Matters
• Wellbeing Safeguarding World-class standards
• Closing the gap for children from disadvantaged
  backgrounds
• Participating and Achieving Paths to Success

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• Childrens Plan
• Personalised learning
• Broad and rich curriculum
• Primary Curriculum review
• KS3 curriculum 2008
• (Secondary Strategy Musical Futures)
• Creative and Media diploma
• ArtsAwards

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• Gifted and Talented
• Learning outside the classroom
• Extended Schools (1.3bn over 3 years)
• Aiming High
• Building Schools for the Future
• Youth Opportunities Fund
• Youth Capital Funds
• MyPlace

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• ArtsMark
• SSAT specialist colleges
• ACE Regularly Funded organisations
• Private, community and voluntary groups
• Statutory duty on LAs to provide access to
  positive activities for young people
• LAs are expected to take account of young
  peoples views

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• World Class Workforce
• ASTs no pressure!
• MMR2 (p79)
• The establishment of a more effective, and more
  consistently national, network of ASTs for music
  to provide guidance and professional development
  to primary school class teachers, teaching
  assistants and other support staff.
• An audit of the geographical and educational
  phase locations of ASTs in order to enable a more
  balanced national network to be established.
• ASTs to work more effectively with emerging
  school music federations and music services to
  deliver more support for music at KS1 and KS2
  through primary school networks.

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• From September 2007 the grant funded ASTs move
  into 'wave 3' of work which means 50 of their
  outreach time ( typically 38 1/2 days or 19 days)
  will be available for/directed by relevant LA
  staff to help use them in supporting teaching and
  learning and raising achievement.

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• QCA Year 5 questionnaire
• My favourite lessons are....because I always
  learn new things.
• I like ..... as I can understand it much better
  than in Year 4, I think my teacher explains it
  better because I had trouble understanding last
  year.
• Pupils felt the most important things at school
  were enjoying the work and being with
  friends...they were clear that enjoying learning
  didnt mean liking easy lessons. They much
  preferred to have a challenge and then enjoy
  success.
• One of the things they disliked the most was
  being bored in a lesson.
• Desire to learn in active ways
• Time spent at break or lunchtime and at clubs as
  a really important part of the school.

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• Primary Review
• Informal learning, such as learning out of
  school, should be recognised as at least as
  significant as formal learning and should
  therefore be valued and appropriately utilised in
  formal processes.

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• Better Music Education for More Young People
• Real Music!
• NorthWest pathfinder
• Music Manifesto website

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• Talk to your neighbour
• Comments and Questions

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• Richard Hallam
• National Music Participation Director
• Mobile [phone]
• Email halla_at_globalnet.co.uk