HFCMAT Subject Lead Network Group
CPD Offer for Music
This course is ideal for current and aspiring EYFS subject leaders, early years coordinators, and educators looking to enhance their leadership capabilities.
Enhance your music teaching skills with creative composition techniques, hands-on instrument training, and world music workshops. Perfect for primary and secondary educators, these sessions boost confidence and curriculum diversity.
Date & Time: 8th October 2024 – 13:30 – 15:30
Location: Maritime Hub, Birkenhead
The NC for KS2 music states that children ‘should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures’ and to ‘compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music’. This session looks at creative ways to fulfil these aims in your classroom. This session will also look at how you can use music technology to create music.
Date & Time: 28th January 2025 – 13:30 – 15:30
Location: Maritime Hub, Birkenhead
This session will develop your practical musical skills so you feel confident delivering high quality practical lessons to your classes. There will be a rhythmic and notated element to this session and participants will take part in a series of masterclasses on some common primary instrumentation. This session is open to anyone who teaches music in primary and is specifically designed to develop your musical skills and confidence.
Date & Time: 20th May 2025 – 13:30 – 15:30
Location: Maritime Hub, Birkenhead
A session aimed at building your practical knowledge of world music. Sessions on how to teach samba, West African drumming and song and Gamelan to students in KS3 to develop a rich curriculum that develops students understanding of music from different music traditions, heritage and cultures.
Laurie Smith is the Director of Music for HFCMAT. She has been teaching music for 20 years and has a wealth of experience both leading and developing music in both secondary and primary sectors.
Her belief that all children are entitled to an exciting, engaging and creative music education has been a constant thread throughout her career and Laurie has always been dedicated to providing young people with enriching musical experiences out of the classroom.