NAME National Conference 2010

Friday to Sunday

Continuing professional development for music-teaching professionals

The theme running through this year’s conference was 'Finding the pupil voice'. Why seek the pupil voice? Does music education today respond to this voice? How do we develop young people’s leadership in music education?

The weekend included presentations, workshops and debates for

• Music teachers and practitioners working in all phases
• Lecturers in higher and initial teacher education
• Advisers, inspectors and consultants
• Music service staff
• Musicians working in the community

Guest speaker
Dame Evelyn Glennie

Keynote speakers
Marjorie Ouvry Early Years Consultant
Mark Phillips HMI Ofsted National Adviser for Music
John Stephens Director of Children and Young People’s Services Cheshire West and Chester
Mick Walters Professor of Education and President of the Curriculum Foundation

Workshops
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• Classy Voices: creative approaches to whole class singing in KS1 Em Whitfield Brooks
• Tribal Groove (KS3) Victoria Leith
• Responding to the Music Play of Very Young Children (early years) Nancy Evans
• Tamboo Bamboo (KS2/3) Richard Charles
• Bringing the Music Industry into the Classroom: Setting Up Rock and Pop Projects from Transition to GCSE James Tarling
• The Music Room Developmental Classroom Music Program (KS1/2) Dubois Enterprises New Zealand
• Animate, Appraise and Apply ! using singing to develop young leaders (KS2/3) Shirley Court
• Boomwhakers in Action!! (KS1/2) Geraldine Gaunt and Phil Needham
• Exploring and Mixing Sound - Music Technology at KS1/2 David Wheway
• Composition Starters for KS2 Emily Keeler
• Improvisation at KS3 Chris Harrison
• Getting Loopy - Using music technology in a creative and musical way Roland UK
• Singing Express  - Discovering the singer in every child A&C Black
• Inspira® - Contemporary KS2 Music Charanga
• Percussion Performance Workshop Backbeat

Presentations
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• Developing the Student Voice in Schools Anthony Anderson and students from Beauchamp College
• Young People’s Voice and the Arts Award Arts Award - Trinity Guildhall
• How the Greater Manchester Music Action Zone Engages the Pupil Voice Debra King
• Whose Music - Whose Identity? James Garnett

Research
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• Whose Musical Education Is This? John Finney
• Music at the Heart of Cross-curricular Learning Jonathan Barnes
• Developing a Singing Culture in Year 7 Classes Eleanor Vessey
• Why do they Come to our After School Rock School Joanne Cheetham
• Feel Better When You Sing ? - singing, health and well-being from the student perspective Dr.Liz Mellor

NAME Debates
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• What is the Sing Up legacy and how can it be sustained post 2011? led by Katherine Zeserson
• A crisis in secondary music? led by Robert Bunting (Handouts 1/2/3/4/5)
• What do we want funding to achieve within music education services? led by Dick Hallam
• The role of the pupil voice led by John Finney

Key Speakers  - Interview Q&As

• Dame Evelyn Glennie
• Emily Keeler
• Nancy Evans
• Richard Charles
• Richard Hallam
• Robert Bunting
• David Wheway
• James Garnett