Explore how to articulate your music provision so that it focuses on inclusion, engagement and the quality of education a pupil receives during their time within your school.

This free, one-hour ISM Trust webinar is aimed at secondary and all-through school music leads.

This webinar is relevant to music leads from across the four nations of the UK. However, it refers to the recommendation in the English National Plan for Music Education (NPME) that every school in England (including multi-academy trusts) should have a Music Development Plan in place by September 2023, that 'captures the curricular and co-curricular offer and sets out how it will be staffed and funded'.

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Webinar presenters

The webinar is delivered by Sophie Gray, Head of Inclusion at Services for Education Music, and Margaret O'Shea, ISM member and the Director of Music for Ark Schools.

Sophie has been in music education for the past 20 years, working primarily in special schools/alternative provision and with those with complex disabilities. Sophie is currently Head of Inclusion and teacher at SFE Music Service, and teaches on the PgCert in Sounds of Intent.

Margaret is an experienced music teacher who, having been Director of Music for Ark Schools for five years, now leads on their curriculum and enrichment work across all creative, cultural and sporting faculties.

Useful links

• ISM information hub on the National Plan for Music Education (NPME) for England
• ISM Trust’s latest free digital resource: Primary Singing Toolkit
• ISM Trust free digital resource: Primary Music Toolkit
• Music self-evaluation tool (secondary)
  
• National Curriculum for Music framework
  
• ISM welcomes National Plan for Music Education in Wales
• The Amber Trust: Providing musical opportunities for blind and partially sighted children, and children with more complex needs, via its Music Awards and Music Services.
• Adam Ockelford, who founded The Amber Trust, reminds us that a child's own motivation is the most important thing when they learn to play an instrument.
• Adam Ockelford and Derek Paravicini Ted Talk: In the key of genius
• Approaches to Communication through Music by Margaret Corke
• Birmingham City University and Services for Education: Musical Inclusion booklet
• Birmingham City Council: Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and/or Disability in Birmingham – Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2018-19
• Birmingham University: Inclusion (SLD/PMLD) MA/PGCert
• Drake Music: Leaders in Music, Disability & Technology
• The Guardian: Schools crisis in England as special needs staff quit ‘in droves’ over pay, Staff crisis hampering children’s pandemic recovery, says Ofsted
• Inspire-music: a place for everyone involved in music education to be curious, to be inspired and to think about what really works.
• Midlands Arts Centre Makes Music
• National Open Youth Orchestra: the world’s first disabled-led national youth orchestra
• National SEND Data 2020 – 2021
• Ofsted research review series: music
• The OHMI (One-Handed Musical Instrument) Trust is a UK-based charity which enables musicians with physical impairments to take part in music making.
• Open Orchestras by Open Up Music, a charity dedicated to empowering young disabled people to build inclusive orchestras.
• Pooky Knightsmith Mental Health: How can schools take a trauma informed approach post pandemic?
• Scope UK: Social model of disability
• The Sensory Projects: seeking to contribute to a world where everyone is understood in spite of difference.
• Services for Education: contact Sophie Gray at [email protected]
• Soundabout: Specialised music services for young children and young adults who have profound and multiple disabilities.
• Sounds of Intent: An inclusive framework of musical engagement
• Sounds of Intent and Trinity accreditation: Awards and Certificates in Musical Development
• Sounds of Intent and University of Roehampton: PGCert Music and children with Special Needs
• Youth Music: A quality framework for use in music-making sessions working with young people in SEN/D settings