NOVEMBER 2014 - UPDATE

DIARY DATES

PORTSMOUTH

MUSIC HUB

Key Dates:

Sunday 7th December Both Portsmouth Rock bands at the University of Winchester Friday 12th December Hub Vocal Christmas concert Monday 15th December Instrumental Christmas concert

Thursday 12th February 2015 Solent Music Hub Conference Portsmouth Guildhall

12th February 2015 at Portsmouth Guildhall This is the key major regional CPD event in 2015. Sessions target all Key Stages from EFYS to KS4. Full details of the 24 workshops and booking form

can be found here but some highlights include:

Keynote speaker: Robin Hammerton, HMI Arts Award and Artsmark BSO conducting skills workshop Trinity level 4 Certificate for Music Educators How to teach essential jazz skills: KS3 & KS4 Technologies and assessment: KS2 & KS3 i-Pads in the music curriculum: KS1 to KS4 Songs and games for inside and out: KS1 Live performances during the day Booking closes on 15th January. Workshops have limited numbers so early booking is strongly advised. Delegates will also receive a complimentary ticket to the BSO concert that evening, which includes Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 ‘Winter Daydreams’.

SOLENT MUSIC HUB CONFERENCE

WELCOME TO THIS UPDATE

Christmas is coming so the musical life in the Music Hub and in schools is getting busier by the day with many events across the city. The Hub has a Special Christmas celebration in the Cathedral, Baa Baa Bethlehem musical for Key Stage 1 children and Mr Humbug Sees the Light for Key Stage 2 children. See diary dates for further details of these and many other events. When term finally ends we wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Tuesday 18th November 6.30 pm

Performance Evening

Langstone Junior School

FREE SONGS FROM OUT OF THE ARK

Out of the Ark Music is offering a free song for Portsmouth schools from their Song Calendar. The song we have chosen is the seasonal All Around the World by Sha Armstrong. Portsmouth schools will also receive a second song free, Every Brand New Day.

You can see all the songs in the Out of the Ark Song Calendar here. To be sent the code you need to download your free songs, schools should email portsmouthmusichub@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Wednesday 3rd December, 10.30

Special Christmas Celebration Christmas Recipe

Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral

MAKING TRACKS

Music Tracks is an innovative new programme from Trinity College London, which aims to develop whole class instru-mental and vocal learning. A newly commissioned set of flexible repertoire, including

styles and genres of music from all over the world, is also available along with a wealth of teacher support materials. Teachers can also access the brand new Artsbox website and app to create pages and infor-mation for their students and to share performances and creative work. Click on this link to find more information about Music Tracks.

Saturday 15th November, 7.30 pm

Portsmouth Festival Choir

Autumn concert to commemorate the First World War.

Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral

Friday 5th December, 6.30 pm

Christmas Key Stage 1 musical

Baa Baa Bethlehem

Church of the Holy Spirit, Southsea

Monday 9th December, 6.30 pm

Christmas Key Stage 2 musical

Mr Humbug Sees the Light

St Mary’s Church, Fratton

The BBC launched its eagerly awaited Ten Pieces project in October. If you haven’t already caught it, you can watch the cinema trailer and find lots of additional information on the BBC website. We have finally persuaded the BBC to let the Hub send DVDs direct to primary schools and these will be sent out very shortly.

BBC TEN PIECES

Sunday 7th December, 10.30 am

Rock the Room - Portsmouth Junior and Senior Rock Bands film at the University of Winchester

29 - 30 November

Yamaha Weekend

Musicroom, 93 - 95 Commercial Road, Portsmouth

Further details at Musicroom.com

Sunday 7th December, 7.30 pm

The Urban Vocal Group

Annual concert

Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth Further details on UVG website

The Arts Council England has recently updated its database of teaching resources for creative and cultural education. The resources come from some of the nation’s finest arts organisations, museums and education specialists and are designed to generate creative new ideas and inspire teachers of subjects at Key Stage 1 - 5 across the national curriculum.

You can find the database here.

ARTS COUNCIL CREATIVE

RESOURCES for TEACHERS

Voice in a Million (VIAM)

VIAM is now in its sixth year and aims to raise awareness of millions of children throughout the world who do not have a family to take care of them. The annual event takes place at SSE Wembley Arena every March and has 6,500 children participating. VIAM is also planning a series of regional concerts. For more information, visit the website www.voiceinamillion.com

BBC INSPIRE YOUNG COMPOSERS

COMPETITION

The 2015 BBC Inspire Young Composers' Competition will be open from January to May 2015. Entries will be judged by a panel of leading composers

and music industry professionals who are passionate about finding and developing young talent and who will be looking for music that is original, unique and inspiring. Open to students aged 12 to 18 years old, winners will have their music performed by professional musicians at the 2015 BBC Proms for broadcast on BBC Radio 3. You can listen to recordings of all winning and highly commended pieces from the 2014 Inspire competition here. Winners also receive a coveted BBC commission and mentoring from a professional composer.

Further details about the competition will be announced in the coming months, so keep checking the BBC Proms website for more information!

MORE OPPORTUNITIES

Friday 12th December, 6.30 pm

Hub Vocal Christmas concert

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Paulsgrove

Monday 15th December, 6.30 pm

Instrumental Christmas concert

Langstone Junior School

COME and SING

For anyone who would like to come along and sing the choruses from Handel: Judas Maccabaeus with Portsmouth Festival Choir. At approximately 4 pm all choruses will be performed with narration (friends and families welcome). Tickets: £15 includes tea/coffee plus hire of choral scores.

Sunday 7th February 2015 from

10.45 am to 5.00 pm

St Paul’s Church, Chichester

Sunday 14th December, 2.30 pm

Portsmouth Light Orchestra

Christmas concert

Buckland Community Centre, Malins Road: admission free

The Guildhall echoed to the sound of the Band of the Royal Marines School of Music at two concerts on 6

th November with

1500 children from 16 schools enthusiastically joining in with the band. "Fantastic!" was the

general reaction of the children after the concerts. Visit the Hub's facebook site to see all the photos.

1500 children attended Royal Marines

interactive concert

GRAMMAR SKILLS

Children who are better at distinguishing rhythm also fare bet-ter in grammar skills. Read more

THE ARTS REACH OUT

A DCMS report finds that Arts reach almost all children. Read the article here.

3rd Hub Anniversary celebrated in style

The third anniversary of Portsmouth Music Hub was celebrated on 8

th November

with a grand concert in the Guildhall given by some of the Portsmouth Music Hub Partners including a choir from five primary schools,

Portsmouth City Band, Urban Vocal Group, the Music Service, the Chinese Association Dance Team, Portsmouth Music Festival, Philharmonia and the Festival Choir. The Hub flag was proudly flown in Guildhall Square. Photographs are can be viewed as always on the Hub's facebook site.

ARTICLES OF

INTEREST

The SLA for Portsmouth Music Service is renewed on an annual basis. The new SLA forms will be sent to schools during the first week of the Spring Term 2015 and the deadline for returning these forms is Friday 27th March 2015. This deadline is to ensure that timetables can be drawn up so Music Service staff contracts are in place by May 31st 2015 and any additional staff required can be recruited. To ensure the Music Service can meet school requests, the need for flexibility is greatly appreciated and we hope that you can understand that, with a staff team who work mornings and afternoons, it is impossible to accommodate requests across the city for afternoons only.

Music Service SLAs must be returned direct to the Music Service. For any enquiries, please contact Sue Beckett, Head of Portsmouth Music Service: (sue.beckett@portsmouthcc.gov.uk).

PORTSMOUTH MUSIC SERVICE:

SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT 2015-16 ARTS & CULTURE

PASSPORT

Don’t forget to continue collecting stamps for your Arts & Culture Passport. With five stages, students can become involved from any age.

With so much going on over the Christmas period, it is a great time to gather evidence of your involvement, not only with music, but in anything to do with arts and culture. That can include a trip to the theatre even to see a pantomime, museum visits, dance shows and photography - indeed anything creative or cultural.

With only 5 stamps needed for Stage 1, you will be surprised just how quickly the stamps mount up. And remember that, if you take part in at least 20% of the events (so that means only one event for Stage 1), your certificate, signed by the Lord Mayor, will be at gold status.

The evidence of your activities will normally be assessed by your school, so do ask if your school has registered for the Passport.

Further information about the scheme can be found here on the Music Hub website. There are also some examples of completed portfolios so you can see what you need to do. Most of all, have fun!