Holly Lodge High School
Holly Lane, Smethwick, Sandwell, West Midlands, B67 7JG
Champion School Teacher = Ian Dickinson (Tel: 0121 558 0691, Email headteacher@hollylodgescience.co.uk)
Musical Futures at Holly Lodge High School
- Three years implementing Musical Futures approaches
- Year 7: Classroom Workshopping, performed as a class using sections of percussion, basses, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, keyboards and Steel Pans. In addition, all Year 7 pupils have begin band work learning drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals
- Year 8: Band Instrumental Skills followed by songwriting
- Year 9: In at the Deep End followed by composition. Non-Western Music β using steel pans
- Extensive use of NUMU
Why Musical Futures?
βThe interests of the department are in creating a high quality music education that is student centred and meaningful. We are passionate about the subject we teach β without regard to genres, or instrumentation, or even language β some of our best work has been in Arabic, Panjabi or Hindi. Our multicultural, inner city school is well equipped to pass on that enthusiasm and to see Musical Futures working with real pupils."
Holly Lodge's NUMU Label: Fat Budgie
See video and and read about Musical Futures at Holly Lodge here
Training at Holly Lodge
Musical Futures Live!, 11th July 2012
Applying Musical Futures, 12th July 2012
