Creating an inclusive classroom for all at KS3 – Inspire Event
Added to website 31/07/2018. Updated 06/09/2023.
Access resources from this one-day conference held on Thursday 23rd February 2017. The Inspire Event addressed the topic of inclusion and engagement in KS3 Music classrooms.
This one-day conference held on Thursday 23rd February 2017 addressed the topic of inclusion and engagement in KS3 Music classrooms. With a varied programme of inspirational keynote speeches, interactive musical workshops, ideas speed-dating and sharing case studies, this event – curated by secondary music teachers in collaboration with Music Excellence London key partners – was designed to arm anyone working in KS3 Music in London with strategies, skills, contacts, support and inspiration, to take back into their classrooms and organisations the next day.
Provocations posed to spark conversations during the day included:
“Are whole-class ensembles real engagement?”
“How do you broaden your pupils’ musical horizons?”
“What is the place of the discussion around ‘social justice and music education’ in the KS3 Music classroom?”
“Do we need to be bolder in addressing the subject of diversity in our KS3 Music classrooms?”
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- Keynote by Gary Spruce
- Keynote by Deborah Annetts
- Case study: Katie Hasler, Head of Music, Woodford County High Schools
- Case study: Hackney Youth Music Forum
- Case study: Glenthorne High School
- Workshop: How can Music Education Hubs better work with secondary teachers/schools and vice versa
- Workshop: Professional Learning and Next Steps
- Woolwich Workshop: Modelling an integrated aural approach to musical learning
- Woolwich Workshop Shackles: Backing Track
- Woolwich Workshop Shackles: With Lyrics
- Woolwich Workshop: KS3 Display
- Workshop: Create an inclusive ceilidh band
About the Provider
Music Excellence London
From 2015 to 2017, Music Excellence London ran as a dynamic network of classroom music teachers, music education hubs, cultural organisations, and the wider music education community, supporting excellent musical teaching and learning at Key Stage 3 in London schools.
