The process can include a look at:

• Planning
• Resources
• Staff CPD
• Inclusion and SEND support
• Assessment
• Live music and visiting artists
• Non-curricular music
• Performances and events
• Documentation
• OFSTED preparation

We are able to offer support and advice or sometimes just a second pair of eyes to look over it all! If you would like to book in a review meeting at your school, please send an email to educ.artforms@leeds.gov.uk.

Lee Muncaster, Senior Curriculum Leader, ArtForms

Date: Monday 22nd March 2021
Time: 4:00-5:15pm
Location: Zoom

The second of three sessions offering Curriculum support, practical music-making and sharing best practice.  All Secondary Music Leaders are very welcome!  During this session we will meet with other Subject Leaders from across the city to share national and local up-dates.  There will also be a practical session on the new Taiko drumming project that LMEP are offering to secondary schools.

Booking for the session is via Leeds for Learning using this link: https://www.leedsforlearning.co.uk/Event/129806 You will receive the Zoom link automatically when you book on to the course. Please do ensure that your booking has been checked out otherwise you may not receive the link.

As always, we are grateful to Leeds Music Education Partnership (LMEP) for the funding that enables us to offer this session free of charge to up to 2 delegates from ALL Leeds Secondary Schools and Academies.

Bookings are live on Leeds for Learning. A login is required to book online, if you – or your school business manager – are new to Leeds for Learning, please email the team at leedsforlearning@leeds.gov.uk to request that they set you up with an account.

For more information about what Music Connect can do for you and your school please contact Paula.Brookes@leeds.gov.uk

In this session, Forest School Practitioner Annie Berrington from Get Out More, will develop delegates knowledge of games designed to engage and motivate children and to support them to have fun whilst discovering more about themselves, their classmates and the great outdoors.

From warm-up activities to wide games via team building, adventure and creativity, the games will offer ideas to support learning, through making the most of the outside space and easily accessible resources such as rope and sticks.

Curriculum links:  PSCE, Literacy, Maths

Suitable for Lunchtime Supervisors, Teaching Assistants, Teachers

Fore more information please see the Outdoor Games Flyer

For more information please see the Drama, Story and the EAL Learner Flyer

Fun, Games and History! is a training session designed to explore how familiar games, stories and children’s knowledge of where they live can be used in an creative and engaging way to teach local history, geography and citizenship.

Curriculum links: History, Geography, Literacy, Citizenship

For more information please see the Fun, Games and History Flyer (PDF)

Clay is a fantastic material for children to use. It’s easy to manipulate and because of its heritage can be used to enhance areas across the curriculum. This session is designed to provide teachers with hints, tips and techniques to ensure pupils clay creations are a lasting legacy of their learning.

For more information, including how to book, please see the Using Clay for Sculpture Flyer (PDF)

This half day training session, delivered by Anna Pickard (specialist teacher of Art and Design) will provide clear guidance on how to assess children’s art work. Delivered over a half day, the course will:

• provide a national context
• explore case studies and different approaches to assessment from schools in Leeds
• provide practical assessment tasks and activities, designed to raise teacher confidence
• offer the opportunity to peer assess children’s work, using examples from participating schools

This is a really great opportunity for you to boost your confidence and review your methods of measuring the success of your pupils! It will take place on Wednesday 25th January 2017, 1pm – 4pm at Leeds City Academy, Bedford Field, Woodhouse Cliff, LS6 2LG.

For further information, including how to book, please see the  Assessment in Art Flyer (PDF)

This two-day accredited course in Philosophy for Children (P4C) will introduce the basics of P4C and give you the tools to get you started practicing P4C with your students. The course will be delivered by Grace Robinson from Thinking Space – a social enterprise that creates interesting and inclusive spaces for people of all ages to think philosophically together.

The course will take place over two days- Wednesday 18th January 2017 & Thursday 2nd March 2017, 9am – 4pm

For more information please see the SAPERE Accredited Level 1 Course in Philosophy for Children Flyer

Delivered by experienced visual artist, Lou Sumray, this session will explore how sketchbooks can be used as a rich resource, for recording and documenting pupils ideas and inspiration. Used effectively, sketchbooks can be embedded across the curriculum and can allow children to focus their thoughts, think creatively and reflect on their learning. This is a hands on, practical session, designed to give you the confidence to develop the use of sketchbooks in your own classroom.

For more information, please see the Sketchbooks in School Flyer (PDF)