The 2012 Olympic Games are now just a matter of months away. Here’s how Musical Futures are getting involved!
Youth Sports Trust WorkshopsMusical Futures will be running a series of workshops in the run up to the Games, in partnership with the
Youth Sport Trust.
Using the sight and sounds of sport, and focusing on the Olympic and Paralympic values such as team work and determination, workshop participants will create a piece of music using whole class work shopping.
The workshops aim to increase engagement with both sports and music, particularly among non-sporty and non-musical students, through the creation of music with sports as the inspiration.
Outcomes will be collected and used as part of the Young Musician School Games Competition (see below).
Each workshop will be held in a Specialist Sports College and will be open to up to 10 schools, who will each bring a music teacher and 2 or 3 pupils along. Olympic bronze medal winner Tasha Danvers (400m hurdles) is the Olympic ambassador for the project. Tasha attends the workshops and her experiences of competing at international level form a major part of the composing process.
The workshops also include planning time for how the project could be used in participants’ own schools. Have a look at
http://www.musicalfutures.org.uk/resource/27520 for some examples of previous workshops.
These workshops form part of the legacy strand of the 2012 Games, so we will be generating resources and a gallery of creative outcomes.
Details of forthcoming workshops will be published in new year, but please contact Anna Gower (MF National Coordinator) for further details at
anna@jamesgower.com.
2012 School Games Curriculum CompetitionThe School Games is a multi-sport event for the UK's elite young athletes of school age. To support the 2012 School Games at The Olympic Park in May, The Youth Sports Trust is running a competition to find the best Young
Reporters, Announcers, Commentators, Photographers, Artists, Musicians and Statisticians. 150 young people will be shortlisted to receive a master class training event delivered by media and sports experts. A further 24 will be selected to cover the 2012 School Games event at the Olympic Park in May.
Musical Futures is proud to be working with the YST to support the 2012 School Games Young Musician Competition. Much of it ties in with the workshops described above and we already have tons of resources that we can direct teachers to with regard to song writing etc.
Get Involved To take part in the competitions schools need to register for their online space, read the competition briefs and create and upload their entries by
February 17th 2012.
See
https://www.radiowaves.co.uk/sg2012 for further details.
Each competition brief clearly outlines the criteria for the entry and provides examples and tutorials to support pupils to create their entries.
Follow these simple steps to enter the School Games Curriculum Competitions!
Ready: https://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/296886/title/1ready Set: https://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/296893/title/2set Go: https://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/296896/title/3go
