Investments of up to £120,000 have been made available to 10 music projects delivered by these new partnerships.
These include Leeds based charity Opera North, which will be working in Winifred Holtby Academy in Hull, Kinetika Bloco, which will work in St Gabriel’s College, Lambeth, London, and Derbyshire Music Education Hub, which will work across the Virtual Schools Network in Derbyshire.
The initiative, dubbed Exchanging Notes, aims to establish if this collaborative approach brings additional benefits for young people at risk of low attainment, disengagement or educational exclusion.
Over a four year period, Birmingham City University will study the 10 projects to evaluate the educational, musical and other outcomes of these new models of partnerships for the pupils involved.
It will also examine how the distinctive educational approaches used in schools and out-of-school settings might be combined to improve young people’s educational outcomes and encourage the exchange of ideas, practice and understanding of effective music teaching techniques between practitioners working in these different settings.
Matt Griffith, executive director of Youth Music, said: ‘In designing the Exchanging Notes programme, we encouraged schools, music organisations and local music education hubs to work together.
‘The range of applications we received has shown us how vibrant our music education system can be with, in many cases, very creative ideas for partnership working. We look forward to the outcome of this action research project with great excitement as it is the first time such a rigorous study of combined approaches between schools and music providers, who normally work in out-of-school settings, has been done.
‘The results may well turn out to be of enormous significance to stimulate fresh thinking in music education and support the aspirations set out in the National Plan for Music Education.’
These include Leeds based charity Opera North, which will be working in Winifred Holtby Academy in Hull, Kinetika Bloco, which will work in St Gabriel’s College, Lambeth, London, and Derbyshire Music Education Hub, which will work across the Virtual Schools Network in Derbyshire.
The initiative, dubbed Exchanging Notes, aims to establish if this collaborative approach brings additional benefits for young people at risk of low attainment, disengagement or educational exclusion.
Over a four year period, Birmingham City University will study the 10 projects to evaluate the educational, musical and other outcomes of these new models of partnerships for the pupils involved.
It will also examine how the distinctive educational approaches used in schools and out-of-school settings might be combined to improve young people’s educational outcomes and encourage the exchange of ideas, practice and understanding of effective music teaching techniques between practitioners working in these different settings.
Matt Griffith, executive director of Youth Music, said: ‘In designing the Exchanging Notes programme, we encouraged schools, music organisations and local music education hubs to work together.
‘The range of applications we received has shown us how vibrant our music education system can be with, in many cases, very creative ideas for partnership working. We look forward to the outcome of this action research project with great excitement as it is the first time such a rigorous study of combined approaches between schools and music providers, who normally work in out-of-school settings, has been done.
‘The results may well turn out to be of enormous significance to stimulate fresh thinking in music education and support the aspirations set out in the National Plan for Music Education.’
