‘Music’s feelings isn’t it, miss?’
………how accountable are we?
……….is the provision improving?
What has improved?
• Sharper focus on young people
• Effective professional development
• Improved IT and data systems
• More delegated management
• Ideas for follow-up to WO year
• Exploring funding streams and partnerships
• Working on the transition into KS3
• Working with Headteacher groups
Focus on Young People
• Better measuring of progress
• Evaluating - not just describing activities
• Better detail about expectations
• Interaction with tutors and between members
of teams about teaching and learning
• Sharper discussions about progress and
standards – and how to improve
Professional Development
• Effective Joint observations and agreements
• Good use of external national CPD courses
• Joint working across teams towards
consistency
• Use of FMS materials
• Trinity/OU on WO – impact is broader
• Internal monitoring systems of teaching
quality improved
IT and Data Systems
• Improved from ‘Rubbish in Rubbish Out’
• Now Data and Information in and Data Out
(DIDO)
• Making it do what you need it to do
• Making data into information
• Using information to help planning
• Discriminating purchase and use of systems
Delegated Management
• Effective strategies to ensure ‘Management
is everyone’s business’
• Effective SMT management training, re-
defining responsibilities and ensuring
impact
• Now including middle managers and team
leaders
• Release SMT time for Leadership in
challenging times
Forward from WO
• Determination to explore possibilities
• Working with whole classes
• Working with larger groups and half classes
• School based ensembles beyond the timetable
including tuition
• Local cluster ensembles with tuition
• Short series of sessions
• Music centre programmes
• School based staff / tutor joint programmes
Exploring resources and funding
• Who else has funding?
• Who else is committed and skilled?
• Working with Regular Funded
organisations
• Regional and local groups
• Professional organisations
• Professional ensembles
Working in Partnerships
• Internal LA partnerships eg: early years or
special needs colleagues
• External local/regional partnerships
• National initiatives: Musical Futures; Sing
Up
• World music groups and practitioners
• Partnerships which extend the range of
provision
• Specialist Workshops and CPD events
Transition to secondary schools
• New Transition programmes and events
• Better Information from Y6 to Y7
• Tutors working together on transition
• More Involvement of secondary staff
• Pupil passports
• Secondary ‘link’ music service appointments
• Staffing offers and requests from
secondary schools, eg BTEC
• Using secondary schools as centres/bases
Working with headteachers
• Primary individual headteachers through
SLAs and WO ‘visibility’
• Primary Forum Meetings
• Primary, secondary and special school LA
specialist colleagues
• Area and cluster arrangements
• Pupil demonstrations and councils
• More young music leaders and mentors
Support for music services
• 28.5 days of FMS support from Sept 09 to
July 10
• 23 music services received support
• Recommended by the MSEP
• or: Requested by the music service
• or: Triggered by QA team
• To enable music services to be part of the
MSEP programme and to help them prepare
Support for MSEPs
• QA link
• Project manager
• Head of QA
• Contingency team: under discussion
• Mentor team: under discussion
Current picture
• 7 music services are yet to join the
programme: 6 are receiving support to do so
• 55 combined year 2 and 3 are to take place
• 75 Pure Year 3 will be carried out
• 59 visits in the Autumn Term
• 67 visits for the Spring Term
• 15 delayed summaries – but all near
completion
• About 27 MSEPs for each QA link colleague
Priorities and procedures
• Planning and communicating dates
• Planning the visit timetable
• Agreeing the writing tasks
• Agreeing procedures at the end of the visit
• Drafting the written summary – TMRS – to
be agreed with QA link before feedback
• Arranging the feedback
• Finalising the summary – to QA link
• TMRS from QA link to QA leader for FSO