Latest News
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New Teacher CPD Standards Released!
The Department for Education has today released the new Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development. These new standards can be viewed here As a TDT Advisor provider, MES meets many of these standards already, but we will be realigning our CPD offer to meet all of the new standards from September.
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First CME Learner to Complete at CPD Centre West Midlands
We are thrilled to share the news that CPD Centre West Midlands, our partnership project with Target Education Alliance, has had its first Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators graduate! Adam Moffatt, a guitar tutor with Wolverhampton Music Hub, completed the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators (Trinity CME) in a little over 18 months. […]
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Shropshire Schools: Call for Information
Cultural Consortium Shropshire is a network of arts and cultural organisations working with children and young people (aged 0-25) in Shropshire. The consortium shares a vision that children and young people in Shropshire aspire, achieve, progress and take the lead through arts and culture. They want to build an aspirational cultural offer which is accessible, […]
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Secondary Music Teaching: A thankless task?
I have great admiration for my secondary music colleagues. I have taught in many secondary schools as a vocal teacher and choir leader, but only in primary as a music curriculum teacher. Being a peripatetic or a primary music coordinator (and sometimes a peripatetic music coordinator!) has its challenges, but I often think that secondary […]
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8 Best Practice Tips for Whole Class Instrumental Teaching
Teach MUSIC not the instrument! Focus on the development of musical skills, using the instrument as the carrier for learning. You’re not going to get all 30 children playing with perfect technique at the same rate as you would with a smaller group, and the majority won’t carry on with the instrument anyway, so teach […]
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Cultural Consortium Shropshire
We are pleased to announce that we have been commissioned by Arts Connect and Shropshire County Council to help raise awareness of Cultural Consortium Shropshire in the education sector. If you are a Shropshire school that would like to know more about what the Consortium can offer, please use our contact page to get in […]
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First Access Forum: Programme Announced
We are pleased to announce the programme for this year’s First Access Forum, which takes place at mac Birmingham on 30th June. Download the programme here: FAF 2016 Timetable
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On Diversity & Music Education
I attended the Mayor of London’s Summit on School Music yesterday, at which there was a lot of talk about promoting diversity in music education. Much of this talk centred around raising the participation of minority groups in classical music. I’m not saying this is wrong, far from it, our orchestras and choirs do need […]
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Weekly Update: 20th March 2016
We had a super busy week last week visiting The Education Show. Lots of ideas to digest and reflect on! On Tuesday of this week we’ll be attending The Mayor of London’s Summit on School Music, which we’re really looking forward to! This week our main task is to confirm our Wales and Yorkshire CPD […]
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Weekly Update 29th February
This week, our team are contacting all our venues to confirm next year’s dates for our Teacher CPD courses! We are also taking last minute bookings for next Thursday’s ‘Excellence in Primary Music’ course in Bristol, and Liz is preparing her talk for the Sefton & Knowsley Primary Music Coordinators’ Network Meeting on Friday.
Teacher CPD Courses
