Okehampton College
Mill Road, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 1PW
Champion School Teacher = Paul Smith (Tel 01837 650910, Email smithers@okehamptoncollege.devon.sch.uk)
Musical Futures at Okehampton College
- Integrate Musical Futures approaches in Year 9 with a new Arts Carousel model, giving students an intensive period of time (9 hours in 3 weeks) on Musical Futures
- School has adopted a range of strategies for to integrate live performance and music technology
- All MF groups are presented with a digital handheld recorder at the beginning of their carousel, which they use as a digital diary
- Knock-on effects of MF have been that other departments - particularly the expressive arts - have taken the ideas on board and are trying to create more schemes to involve independent learning
Why Musical Futures?"Students these days are digital natives, if you show them the
basics they will take it, develop it and fly with it. I am a classical
violinst but once I saw the benefit of technology I decided to embrace
it. Everything I know is self taught. I taught myself a bit of guitar, a
bit of bass, a bit of drums and that is enough to get you through. It
is also important to get help. The lessons themselves can be very
enjoyable affairs if everything is set up correctly. This is what takes
the time – making sure the resources are in the right place, tuning
guitars, making sure the leads work, checking the computers are on. I do
not have a technician so I involve the 6th form and my student
teachers. This way, MF can be very successfully delivered."
Training run by Okehampton College
Musical Futures Live! - 30th January 2012
