Hampshire Music Service: Provision for Special Schools

A range of opportunities is available for Hampshire Special Schools through the Special team, whose members include::

Primary Music Consultant

Liz Davies

1. All Special Schools are able to access the following activities with no charges to individual schools participating in them:

• The Special Celebration at Christmas
• Hampshire Music Service Newsletters to Special Schools - Curriculum issues and opportunities

2. In addition the Hampshire Music Service’s new SLA has a Special Schools’ Annual Subscription which enables Special Schools to decide which other aspects of the complete provision for curriculum music they wish to access. There is currently a minimum cost of £300 per financial year, and schools select from a range of credits, with each credit provided at a different cost. All Hampshire special schools receive information in the spring term each year. This includes:

• Special Curriculum credit
      CPD courses for teachers
      Special schools' publications
      Arts week - facilitating/supporting projects
      Music for Communication - developing emotional literacy twilight workshop

• Primary Curriculum credit:
       Primary Project courses
       Primary Project publications

• Conferences credit:
       Especially Music - one place (more if space permits)
       Wessex Conference - one place

• Provision for pupils credit:
       Special event
       Access to sets of instruments:
       Samba; African percussion; Tuned percussion; Music technology; Junk percussion

3. Schools may also purchase the following, at usual additional costs:

• Inspection and advice visits from a member of the Curriculum Team
• Soundbeam workshops
• Instrumental and class teaching
• Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra workshops
  

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