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Vocal Kit Digital songbook, CPD & workshops KS3, KS4 & KS5
Nov
4
to 11 Apr
CPD, Training and Resources, Workshops

Vocal Kit Digital songbook, CPD & workshops KS3, KS4 & KS5

SIOW Music has collaborated with Sound Pop Academy to produce a digital songbook transcribing their brilliant 3 part harmony flexible arrangements of pop songs to share with secondary schools and sixth forms. The music hub and Sound Pop Academy will run a FREE CPD session in your school to introduce the songbook and arrangements and support singing across the Key Stages.

As part of this programme, you will be offered a free log in to the Vocal Kit online platform to continue using the resources following your workshop with backing tracks and a progression framework for vocal learning.

This project will run from January 2025 and through the Spring term.

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MARDI GRAS ANTHEM vocal workshops: Spring & Summer Terms 2024 in partnership with The New Carnival Company KS2, KS3 & KS4
Feb
10
to 5 Jul
Performances, Workshops, Training and Resources

MARDI GRAS ANTHEM vocal workshops: Spring & Summer Terms 2024 in partnership with The New Carnival Company KS2, KS3 & KS4

We are continuing our collaboration with The New Carnival Company to record with young people a new anthem to perform at Mardi Gras linked to their theme for this year. One or two settings will have the opportunity to record the final version of the song for our YouTube channel.

Schools signed up will receive a free songwriting and singing workshop from the hub in the summer term to learn the song to sing it before the parade heads off on the day in July 2025!

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Our Day Will Come Vocal Festival Carisbrooke Castle Thursday 12th June KS1, KS2, KS3+ SEND
Feb
14
to 12 Jun
Workshops, Performances, Training and Resources

Our Day Will Come Vocal Festival Carisbrooke Castle Thursday 12th June KS1, KS2, KS3+ SEND

Our Day Will Come

A series of new songs sung by the Isle of Wight primary schools to celebrate who we are

Building on the music hub’s and English Heritage’s annual Vocal Prom at Carisbrook Castle which is an open-air public performance of young people’s voices Southampton & IOW Music and IW Cultural Education Partnership have commissioned a series of songs under the collective title Our Day Will Come as an expression of what it is to be a young person growing up on the island. Set within the context of a changing demographics and the consequent need to consolidate the number of primary schools this is an opportunity to both celebrate and champion the hopes of the almost 7000 young people currently in primary education here.

Songwriting workshops will take place during the spring term in identified schools giving young musicians the opportunity to express themselves through composition and write their own verses unique to their school.  The verses will be incorporated into the songbook resources produced and feature in the final performance.  Vocal workshops to introduce and learn the songbook material will also take place in all participating schools.  Alongside workshop activity digital resource will be created to support wider school singing, the national curriculum and SEND adaptations including CPD for teachers and practitioners reaching across the whole island. 

The project will culminate in a powerful massed singing event on the bowling green at Carisbrooke Castle on Thursday 12th June 2025 5.30pm – 7pm (reserve date for inclement weather Tuesday 17th June 2025) featuring young voices singing songs written by the participating schools, local artists and the island’s young musicians.  Friends and families are invited to come and watch on the raised areas around the green and bring a picnic.

4pm - 4.30pm School ensembles/groups arrive 

4.30pm - 5pm Sound checks 

5.30pm - 7pm Concert

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Music Teacher Reflection Meeting Summer Term
May
14
4:00 pm16:00
Training and Resources, CPD

Music Teacher Reflection Meeting Summer Term

Time to catch up with other music coordinators and teachers, featuring discussion groups set by you and important national updates from the Music Hub from OFSTED, Music Mark and about School Music Development Plans and the National Plan for Music Education and reflect on areas of need and how to address them. 

Sessions will take place online via Teams in twilight sessions from 4pm - 5pm Please sign up using the button below and you will be send a meeting link nearer the time.

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BSO: Creative & Community Music Leader Training
Mar
22
to 23 Mar
Training and Resources

BSO: Creative & Community Music Leader Training

  • Portsmouth Guildhall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Young creatives and the BSO Young Associates will come together for a series of creative training workshops to develop their creative music practice and develop their community music leading skills.

This free to access training weekend will take place on Saturday 22 March (11.00am-4:30pm) and Sunday 23 March (10am-1pm). Both days will be in Portsmouth, at Portsmouth Guildhall.

This will be a chance to play, sing and create with like-minded individuals, through a practical music making session led by BSO Associates Hugh Nankivell and Neil Valentine. You will gain key tools and tips to be able to apply in your music making groups, such as icebreakers and warm up games, and it will equip you with how to use music as a tool to build connections within your community.

Free to participate (travel costs will be reimbursed and a hotel for Saturday night for those who aren’t local can be reimbursed on discussion). We will be able to recommend hotels.

This opportunity is aimed at musicians and creatives who are emerging in the field. This could be between the ages of 18-30 but we acknowledge this could also be for anyone looking to retrain or wanting further CPD e.g. music teachers or freelance supporting musicians who frequently work in community music sessions or workshops.

Please fill out our form to apply – there is a maximum of 25 spaces and the deadline is Friday 7 March 12pm. You will then be notified if you have received a space. If you can’t attend this weekend, but are interested in further training days, please send us your email address to go on the mailing list. Put this next date in your diary: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May in Bristol.

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Music Teacher Reflection Meeting Spring Term
Feb
25
4:00 pm16:00
Training and Resources, CPD

Music Teacher Reflection Meeting Spring Term

Time to catch up with other music coordinators and teachers, featuring discussion groups set by you and important national updates from the Music Hub from OFSTED, Music Mark and about School Music Development Plans and the National Plan for Music Education and reflect on areas of need and how to address them. 

Sessions will take place online via Teams in twilight sessions from 4pm - 5pm Please sign up using the button below and you will be send a meeting link nearer the time.

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The Bells of Paradise with University of Southampton Voices
Dec
6
9:00 am09:00
Workshops, Performances, Training and Resources

The Bells of Paradise with University of Southampton Voices

We are looking for a KS2 and/or KS3/4 school choir of upper voices to take part in a concert at the Turner Sims Concert Hall with the University of Southampton voices on Friday 6th December. 

This programme is called The Bells of Paradise and features arrangements of some well known traditional (and some less traditional!) carols along with an adult choir and professional musicians. The hub would work intensively with your choir to learn the 6 songs in the programme which would feature your choir or class. 

This concert would be a chance to perform with professional musicians led by Harvey Brough and we have run this lovely project with the University before with great success.  Please email me directly nia@siowmusic.org if this is of interest to you.

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Christmas Celebration: Southampton Guildhall
Dec
5
9:00 am09:00
Workshops, Performances, Training and Resources

Christmas Celebration: Southampton Guildhall

Please register your interest to take part in our Christmas Celebration and Southampton Guildhall on Thursday 5th December 2024!  This is suitable for KS1 & KS2 pupils either your choir or a class from your setting.  This event is now fully booked but if you would like to be put on a reserve list, please email lynn.beckwith@southampton.gov.uk

Details:

Jo Downs is writing a new Christmas songbook and narrative script for this event loosely based on the nativity story with three original songs for KS1 and three original songs for KS2 spanning a variety of styles and genres!  Schools will also be offered the opportunity to perform as a solo group outside of the massed singing or participate in the narrative sections but this is very much voluntary.  On the day we will also be joined by Southampton Youth Wind Band for the concert.

Schools will be offered workshops to introduce the songbook and digital resources to support you with learning them in advance of the concert. Resources will be ready by the end of September/beginning of October.  Timings on the day are still tbc but we will be in touch with everyone to finalise this with your input.

Spaces will be limited to up to 150 KS1 and up to 150 KS2 students for the event in total, which will be allocated on a first come first served basis with an initial limit of around 30 pupils from your school for each half of the concert but we may be able to offer more spaces depending on sign up though so this is not set in stone.

Please indicate on the form how many you would like to bring or use the form to explain this and we will contact you to confirm what's possible.  Any questions please email nia@siowmusic.org but if in doubt fill in the form and we will get back to you with questions if anything doesn't make sense.

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Christmas at Osborne Monday 25th November & Monday 2nd December
Nov
25
to 2 Dec
Workshops, Performances, Training and Resources

Christmas at Osborne Monday 25th November & Monday 2nd December

Schools choirs and music groups are invited to Osborne House on Monday 25th November for a carousel of Christmas activities!  You will have the opportunity to perform in the Durbar Room, have a tour of the ground floor of the house and take part in some Victorian Christmas craft activities. If take up is high we will also offer the opportunity for schools to take part the following week on 2nd December.

Your performances could include the new music hub Christmas songs from our songbook which we will learn in the workshop, something you have prepared for Christmas concerts or anything you have been working on this term - all are welcome!  We will not have a full band or sound set up sadly due to the delicate nature of the Durbar Room but we will be able to play backing tracks.  You are welcome to bring your own equipment too.  

Our proposed timings would be as follows:

9.15am - 9.30am Arrive / parents drop off gather school groups in the car park

9.30am - 9.45am Move to first workshop space 

9.45am - 10.30am Workshop 1 / tour

10.30am - 10.45am change over/break

10.45am - 11.30am Workshop 2 / tour

11.30am - 11.45am change over/break

11.45am - 12.30pm Workshop 3 / tour

12.30pm - 1.15pm Lunch break (bring packed lunch)

1.15pm - 1.30pm schools to Durbar Room

1.30pm - 2.15pm Performance in the Durbar Room

2.15pm Finish and schools leave and/or children are collected from the car park by parents



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Music Teacher Reflection Meeting Autumn term
Nov
7
4:00 pm16:00
Training and Resources, CPD

Music Teacher Reflection Meeting Autumn term

Time to catch up with other music coordinators and teachers, featuring discussion groups set by you and important national updates from the Music Hub from OFSTED, Music Mark and about School Music Development Plans and the National Plan for Music Education and reflect on areas of need and how to address them. 

Sessions will take place online via Teams in twilight sessions from 4pm - 5pm Please sign up using the button below and you will be send a meeting link nearer the time.

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Hub Menu for 2024-25
Sept
2
to 17 Dec
Workshops, CPD, Performances, Training and Resources

Hub Menu for 2024-25

  • Southampton Music hub (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

We have an exciting and inspiring Hub Menu for schools and education settings.

Get in touch to hear about music opportunities for the children and young people you teach via our mailing list or use the buttons below to download a pdf of activities for your region.

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