(Sorry I added photos and then realised that I shouldbe asking the kids first - and can I delete them?....Can't work it out. So I've made them tiny until someome can help me!)
It's proving difficult to get together with local music teachers - all schools were invited and only 1 attended...it was really good to see them though. They're one of our feeder primaries and they sounded really keen about starting numu.
Having Cliff and Fran (from Leeds Artfoms) there yesterday reminded me of how much exciting stuff there is going on in music - I've been wading through the quagmire that is the reality of teaching in an inner city school and it's easy to feel isolated as a music teacher in the best of situations. I came away from the day feeling like a proper creative music teacher again rather than a glorified babysitter. I would recommend some time out with your g and t kids if you're feeling jaded!
So - next plans are to follow up the primary links - I am working closely with 3 of them who are contributing to our Carol Service. Cliff suggested that we could have our own network with our feeders - meaning we could have charts across the schools and so on. That would have so many benefits for music within the schools but also throughout the community. In a community like this (socio-economically deprived) anything that can bring people together is a bonus. Why can't numu be one of those things?
