Artforms, Music and Arts Initiative

Provided by Education Leeds

Purpose of the service
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- Advice, support and advocacy for arts education, including curriculum planning and the development and delivery of effective learning projects and programmes.
Description of the service
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- This team facilitates an integrated approach to arts education for pupils and schools through the building of effective partnerships between arts services within Education Leeds, other council departments and arts and cultural organisations in the city. Currently Artforms offers;
  - Instrumental and Vocal tuition
    - Our team of specialist musicians provide a high-quality, broad-based curriculum of learning music through instrument or voice.
      School-based music groups and ensembles enrich the whole school through contributions to class music lessons, concerts and performances and including the many skills that develop with learning to play or sing through their cultural an creative experiences.
      i. Group and individual lessons including strings, guitar, woodwind, electric/bass guitar, recorders, steel pan, brass, keyboards, Asian music, percussion and voice.
      
      ii. Support for instrumental/vocal pupils through
      
      Opportunities to play and sing in City of Leeds Youth Music Groups (CLYM) and bands, orchestras and choirs in Music Centres (East Leeds, Guiseley, Horsforth, North Leeds, Rothwell, South Leeds, West Leeds and Wetherby);
      
      Development days, residential courses and festivals;
      
      Instrument Purchase Scheme for schools and pupils in Leeds schools (instruments available at competitive prices and without VAT);
      
      Low-cost instrument loan scheme;
      
      At-cost instrument repairs;
      
      Stand alone projects.
      
      iii. Conductors/directors for school music groups and choirs.
  - Curriculum Support: class music teaching at all key stages
    - Specialist musicians providing a high-quality, broad-based curriculum of class music learning in all key stages. Schools contract into this service for a variety of reasons, including PPA cover or for their own staff development.
  - Wider Opportunities
    - As part of the government's Music Manifesto all children at KS2 should have the opportunity to learn an instrument if they wish to do so. To support this aim we offer:
    - Whole class tuition in a variety of instruments at £2225.50 for one hour (45 minutes teaching and 15 minutes set up);
    - One or two teachers as appropriate working alongside the class teacher;
    - Free Loan of instruments;
    - The Music Makers scheme offers subsidised packages of musical activities to clusters of schools for after-schools clubs and activity around transfer;
    - Bursaries of £95 are available to schools towards the cost of children on Free School Meals in receipt of small group instrumental / vocal lessons in school;
  - Accompanying Pianists
    - Accompanying pianists in primary and special schools support school teachers leading singing in a whole school, year or key stage groups, classes, choirs and other groups;
    - Enhanced level accompanying pianists are also able to contribute to learning in the National Curriculum, and to coach groups in classroom percussion and other instrumental or vocal activities.
  - Curriculum Enrichment projects
    - Small teams of peripatetic musicians work with a class or a year group to enhance high-quality learning in creative music, performances, class orchestra or, in conjunction with Artemis, topic related activities such as Tudors, transport, toys.....
  - Music Clubs in schools
    - After school music clubs are increasingly popular and fit perfectly into Extended Services programmes. They could be for mixed ensemble work or for creating new music from scratch using instrumentalists and singers of all standards, as well as for extending the music work.
  - Music technology
    - AS and A2 Music Technology courses;
    - INSET for teachers;
    - Facilities for recording school music groups;
    - Advice for schools.
  - Inclusive Music
    - Courses for inclusive groups of children with SEN in the Gordon Parry Centre (at West Park) and in Schools;
    - INSET for teachers and teaching assistants;
    - Specialist support for individuals.
    - Music Therapy
  - World Music
    - Workshops in Indian music, steel pan, African instruments, angklung and samba percussion delivered by a range of highly skilled specialists;
    - Hire of resource boxes of materials including instruments, music CDs and videos about the music of Africa, South America, South Asia, the Far East and samba.
  - Concerts
    - Live music is an experience for children that cannot be equaled. It engages their senses with sight, sound and movement. Over 400 days of concerts, projects and workshops take place in schools each year - details are sent direct to schools.
    - Each year for one week the peripatetic music staff form an orchestra and a big band to perform 50 minute concerts for high school audiences and their primary school guests;
    - The String and Woodwind Trio deliver appropriately designed concerts for all age groups in primary schools, sometimes in conjunction with Artemis;
    - all concerts include appropriate information about the music and the instruments being heard
  - INSET and curriculum support for all schools
    - Professional Development Programme which offers training to primary and secondary school teachers in a variety of areas.
Pricing Structure
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- Charges for the summer term 2008 are at the 2007-08 rate.
  The following rates for the academic year 2008-09 come into effect from 1st September 2008.
  - Services provided under annual SLA
    - Group Teaching/Music Group Direction and Classroom Teaching in all schools for 30-33 one hour sessions per annum.
      £1415
      Accompanying Pianists for 37 one hour sessions per annum.
      Standard £560
      Enhanced £750
  - Additional services available to purchase on an individual basis
    - School-based INSET, KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4
      Cost by negotiation
      Full Day Steel Pan Workshops
      £235
      
      Workshops in Indian Music/Samba Percussion
      Half Day £145
      Full Day £235
      
      Recitals/Workshops by Wind Trio/String Trio
      Half Day £105
      Full Day £160
      
      AS and A2 Music Technology Courses (per term, per student)
      £380
      
      Inclusive music projects (1 day plus 4 half-days)
      £380
      
      Projects:
      for schools buying in instrumental/vocal or class teaching
      from £235
      
      for schools not buying in any teaching
      from £360
      
      Music Technology Studio/Equipment
      By negotiation
      For recording sessions, for example, recording your choir at:
      £30 per hour for studio and sound recordist; plus
      £30 per hour for mixing and mastering:
      might be as little as £210 plus the cost of CDs (about £4 each).
      
      World Music Resources boxes per week
      £25
      
      Instrument Loan Scheme (per term, per instrument) from current stock
      £11
      
      Instrument Repair Scheme
      at cost
      
      Instrument Purchase Scheme
      Contact Artforms for a price list
Contact Details
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- Enquiries
  General Office
  Tel No
  0113 230 4074
  Fax
  0113 230 4073
  Email
  educ.artforms@educationleeds.co.uk
  Address
  Education Leeds Artforms, The West Park Centre, Spen Lane, Leeds, LS16 5BE
  Director, Artforms
  Paul Kaiserman
  
  Head of Music Service
  Fiona Pacey
  
  Head of Arts Development
  Clare Biggs
  
  Manager, Curriculum Enrichment and West Park Building
  Ray Payne
  
  Head of Departments
  Strings and guitar
  Ruth Wild
  
  Woodwind and keyboard
  Alison Blair
  
  Brass, percussion and vocal
  Stephen Wild
  (Stephen Wild also promotes contemporary music)
  
  Steel Pan
  Victoria Jaquiss
  
  Departmental Co-ordinators:
  Guitar
  Barry Rickarby
  
  Percussion
  Nic Shipp
  
  Voice
  To be appointed
  
  Inclusive Music Curriculum Teacher
  Diane Paterson
  
  Teacher for Inclusive Music
  Victoria Jaquiss (Responsible for teaching music to EBD pupils)
  
  Co-ordinator, of City of Leeds Youth Music (CLYM) and Music Centres
  Francis Bernstein and Linda Town
  
  Music Technology
  Nic Shipp
  
  Co-ordinator of wider opportunities
  Elizabeth (Betsy) Whiting
  
  Development Officer, Clusters and Extended Schools (Music Makers)
  Fran Hannan
  
  Arts Manager
  Sarah Westaway
  
  Senior Support Assistant
  Jane Kaye
  
  Senior Support Assistant (Music)
  Mark Tunnicliffe
  
  Support Assistant (Arts)
  Helen Taylor
  
  Support Assistant (Finance)
  Aretha Suen
  
  Support Assistants (Music)
  Rosie Knighton
  Michael Rossiter
  
  Support Assistant & Room Bookings Clerk
  Joanna Williamson and Michelle Jordan