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Year of Music – call for KS3 pupils to take part in the national launch
As you may be aware following Secretary of State Ed Balls’ letter to schools in July, The Department for Children, Schools and Families are announcing the academic year 09/10 as a national year of celebrating music and the developmental benefits it can provide.
The year is called Tune In, and several exciting launch events are happening across England between 10th-15th September to capture the imagination of a broad spectrum of children and young people.
The first part of the launch, taking place 12.30pm-1.00pm on Thursday, 10th September, is a live music lesson tailored for a Year 7 to Year 9 audience, featuring a host of well-known expert faces from the music industry.
Encourage the schools you work with to involve their KS3 pupils by gathering to watch the lesson via their interactive whiteboards. First Class: The Ultimate Music Lesson will feature a mix of live and pre-recorded appearances by N-Dubz, guitarist Slash, The English National Ballet, The Hoosiers, Katherine Jenkins, Jamie Cullum, DJ Yoda, Vanessa Mae, Girls Can’t Catch, VV Brown, Amanda Holden, Killa Kela and the casts of West End shows Wicked and Billy Elliot. These figures will share advice to inspire and educate pupils about the power of music, whether a young person chooses to perform, produce, create or write music, or help behind the scenes.
The 30-minute live broadcast will be streamed live from a London school at which Secretary of State Ed Balls will be present. Lesson content will be available for download afterwards at www.dcsf.gov.uk/tunein. The broadcast is scheduled over the lunch break to minimise disruption of lessons, but it would be excellent if pupils have had chance to eat and take a short break before First Class: The Ultimate Music Lesson begins.
If you or the schools you work with are able to take part, please contact Elizabeth.Bentley@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk or Hannah.Pawlby@freud.com for more information, including how to access the lesson via the interactive whiteboard.

City Hall Instrument Amnesty Ceremony
Children from Lambeth Schools performed as part of the Mayor's Music Education Summit at City Hall on the 14th January 2009. They performed as part of the 'No Strings Attached' Musical Instrument Amnesty Awards Celebration in conjunction with Time Out Magazine and the Mayor of London.

42 children from Bonneville Primary, Richard Atkins, Corpus Christi RC Primary, Wyvil Primary, Paxton Primary, Loughborough Primary and St. Luke's CE Primary School performed with Julian Lloyd Webber to the Mayor of London, leading music educators and the BBC.

You can see the video from the BBC here for a limited time (12.44 mins into the programme) and also read more about the event by clicking the following links:

www.julianlloydwebber.com

www.sting.com/

www.inharmonyengland.com

If you would like to donate an isntrument please use this link to Time Out

Lambeth Music Service was invited to perform at this prestigious event following the announcement of their success gaining £1million funding to launch the In Harmony - Lambeth project.

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LMS secures £1million funding for a pilot scheme in Lambeth.
Inspired by the “El Sistema” orchestral project in Venezuela, “In Harmony” will help raise the aspirations and life chances for a generation of children in Stockwell through an intense engagement with music. The project will be delivered by LMS with support from the Southbank Centre, AmicusHorizon and the Lambeth Children’s and Young Peoples Service.

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A Musical Boom in Lambeth
The ‘Musitrax’ System has been taken on by 27 Primary schools with over 60 classes of children benefiting from instrumental tuition – almost 3000 additional children have had at least one years experience in playing, singing and performing together since 2006.

In addition, Lambeth Music Service provides over 300 hours every week of small group and individual instrumental tuition in Lambeth schools. This represents a 100% growth in three years.

Seven schools are developing afterschool music clubs to cater for growing demand for instrumental lessons

With the opening of three new music centres, more than 4000 Lambeth pupils have instrumental music lessons every week!

Schools who have signed up to the Musitrax programme are receiving specialist vocal support for school-based staff.

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Donated Instruments come to Lambeth
The Mayor of London and TimeOut’s “No Strings Attached” Instrument Amnesty scheme adopts Lambeth as its beneficiary. Over 100 instruments have already been pledged, and there will be a symbolic hand-over in the City Hall on January 14th.

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Lambeth Schools Music Festival moves back to the Royal Festival Hall.
Following the successful Singing Festival last year, the Southbank Centre is generously supporting the entire 2009 festival which runs from March 25th -31st with an additional morning performance with the Children’s entertainer, Dan Zanes on April 3.

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