Network Meetings and CPD Sessions

We welcome curriculum leads, head of music departments and music leads and instrumental tutors to help reflect and develop your school's music curriculum. We are pleased to welcome Jenetta Hurst for a workshop session on ‘Diversity and Language in the Curriculum'. The meeting will be in-person at Canonbury Primary School, N1 2UT.

We will start the afternoon by getting our vocal chords back on track, Richard Frostick will share top tips and activities that we can bring back into the classroom, whatever age we teach.

In April 2022 Music Education Islington is celebrating 3 years, and we would like to celebrate our milestone with you by raise a glass to music, yourselves and partnerships.

16:30-17:00 Discover your voice again! With Richard Frostick

Singing has fared particularly badly during the pandemic, leaving us to reflect on the large numbers of pupils who have had little or no singing over the last two years.

Singing is a core musical activity. Pupils who sing learn how to fine-tune their aural abilities and to shape phrases musically. All practising musicians draw on their internal musical voices when they are creating or performing.

Richard Frostick will help to blow the cobwebs away with a lively half hour vocal session aimed at reminding us how relevant and enjoyable singing can be for young musicians in all phases of education, from EYFs to post-16 and above.

17.00-18.30 Workshop: Diversity and Language in the Curriculum

In this session, led by Jenetta Hurst, we will be discussing recent curriculum developments in music education and the language, content and approach we might use in an increasingly diverse curriculum.

This session will delve into recent curriculum developments including:

• The Model Music Curriculum
• Sequencing and intent of the curriculum
• Planning to deliver and embed an increasingly diverse curriculum
• Resources and ideas to shape a diverse curriculum
• The language of diversity in the curriculum

18.30-20.00 continue the discussion over a glass of wine/water or join Richard Frostick’s adult choir rehearsal

Jenetta Hurst
Jenetta Hurst is a music specialist with 16 years’ experience working in secondary schools in a range of settings. Jenetta is currently Head of Department for Music in a large secondary school in East London, and is a former senior leader. Jenetta graduated from UCL Institute of Education with the MA Leadership in 2019 and her interest in staff development sees her heading up the Teacher Studio for PMLL’s Every Copy Counts Campaign.
In 2020 Jenetta founded The Creative Educator, a space that brings together educators and arts practitioners to share strageties and recourses for embedding creativity in the curriculum. Jenetta is also an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Richard Frostick
Richard has taught in all phases of music education and has seven years’ experience as an LEA adviser and inspector. He taught singing workshop skills at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for five years and continues to work freelance as a vocal trainer and conductor across the UK and internationally.
He founded and runs Music Centre London, two music centres for 350 children and young people aged 6 -18 in central London. Singing is the main activity and the Centres have twelve choirs. He has prepared young choirs for eight BBC Promenade concerts and conducted them at two.

Website: musiccentrelondon.com

From 2012 - 2020 he was artistic director of World Voice, a project that trains teachers from around the world to teach singing in the classroom. 1.5 million children have benefited from this project and many thousands of teachers have been trained through it. His international work has taken him to 22 countries on four continents and includes projects with major orchestras, training workshops and conferences. He continues to be active in World Voice, which is now run by national singing programme Sing Up.
He has recently started an adult choir in Islington: richsing@mail.com
Richard Frostick's books "Sound Beginnings" and (with songwriter Lin Marsh) "Soundbites" are published by Faber Music. Contact: richardfrostick@aol.com

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