Closing date for applications: Thursday 25th March 2010

Leading Professional - West Berkshire and cross county responsibility for promoting pupil progress.

Ref: BM1002

Maestros Pay Scale + TLR 2

The role is to support, develop and lead a team of up to six teaching staff within the West Berkshire region.

Please forward a CV and a written expression of interest in the position to dawngarside@berkshiremaestros.org.uk Closing date for applications is Thursday 25th March 2010.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 25th March 2010

We are currently advertising for the position of an Area Senior Leader for Bracknell Forest
(MPS + TLR1).

The required applicant will have excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and will be an inspirational teacher with significant experience in either the primary music curriculum or in peripatetic instrumental teaching and learning. The Job Description for this post can be found below by consulting the Staff/Job Opportunities section of the website www.berkshiremaestros.org.uk
Please note that the Maestros pay scale mirrors Teachers’ Pay & Conditions.

Interviews will take place after the closing date of Thursday 25th March for appointment to the post from 1st September, commencement of the Autumn Term 2010.
If you wish to apply for this position, please email dawngarside@berkshiremaestros.org.uk with your CV and covering letter to express your interest in the position.

Closing date for applications: 29 March 2010

‘Making every child’s music matter’
Salary: £50,000 for a 4-day week
The Federation of Music Services is a membership organisation that supports Local Authority music services across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Isles. With its nationwide networks in schools, music centres and the music industry, its input into music education policy and its effective lobbying at government level, the FMS has had a major influence on the renaissance of music in schools today.
The FMS Executive Committee is seeking an experienced Chief Executive to continue to build and develop the Federation’s role and profile as a powerful force in the promotion and delivery of music in every child’s education, working closely with its members and partners to ensure that they offer a forward-looking and effective service for the 21st century. The ideal candidate will be a senior manager with a background in music and/or education, excellent lobbying and advocacy skills, and a track record in leading an organisation successfully through change.
For an information pack, please contact Heather Newill, Director, AEM International Ltd. Arts Entertainment and Media Executive Search on 01728 724739 or info@aeminternational.co.uk. 
Closing date for applications, Monday, 29th March 2010

Closing date for applications: 12pm, 26th March 2010

Do you share our ‘passion for music’?

Liverpool Music Support Service

in partnership with

Notre Dame Catholic College for the Arts

Require a Vocal Team Leader – Fixed term until March 2011 (with a possibility of extension subject to funding)

Pay: TPC Unqualified Teachers Scale UQ1-6 subject to experience and additional ‘retention’ enhancement of £2985 (Recruitment and Retention)

Do you have a passion for singing? Do you want to help change children’s lives by helping them “find their voice”?

The Liverpool Music Support Service, in partnership with Notre Dame Catholic College for the Arts, is seeking to appoint a dynamic team leader to support in the development of vocal work across Liverpool.

We are looking to appoint someone with a proven track record of the highest standards of tutoring experience, excellent organisation skills and able to demonstrate their commitment to the aims of the service.

Specifically this role will involve leading a vocal team in the delivery of our Vocal Strategy and working to develop our extended services provision across the city. You will need to be confident, resilient, and above all a passionate vocal practitioner – preferably over a range of styles.

The service is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced CRB disclosure.

If you think you have these qualities you can obtain an application pack from: Liverpool Music Support Service, Notre Dame Catholic College for the Arts, Everton Valley, Liverpool L4 4EZ. Telephone: 0151-264 6622 e-mail:
musicservice@notredame.liverpool.sch.uk

Closing date for return of applications: 12 pm on Friday 26th March 2010

www.liverpoolmusicsupportservice.com

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 24th March 2010

GUERNSEY SCHOOLS’ MUSIC SERVICE
Head of Strings
The service is seeking to appoint, with effect from 1st September 2010, a well-qualified and experienced teacher of violin and viola, as Head of Strings. As a member of the Senior Management Team, the person appointed will contribute towards the strategic direction of the Service and lead a small dedicated, team of string teachers. He or she will demonstrate the ability to teach successfully from beginner to diploma level. They will also have the necessary skills to lead and direct Music Centre orchestras and ensembles to a high standard.
An energetic, inspiring and motivating teacher is required with good directing skills. He or she will need to show a commitment to high standards of teaching and learning, and the ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others.
Most Music Centre activities take place on Saturdays and older pupils are often timetabled outside curriculum time, so candidates must be prepared to work flexibly from Tuesday through to, and including, most Saturdays during term time. Teachers are expected to travel between schools during the schoolday with any instruments and equipment that they require.
The responsibilities for this post also include management of the stock of instruments.
This is an excellent opporuntiy to join a committed team of teachers in an established Service with a reputation for high standards, which is recognised as making a very significant contribution to the Island’s cultural life.
This is a permanent post which carries a full 15 year (permanent) housing licence and the successful candidate can expect to:
• Receive a relocation package to the island, including rent allowance;
• Enjoy the benefits of more generous tax allowances in an island with no VAT.
Salary will be in accordance with the Guernsey Main Professional Scale £25,607 to £36,770 per annum, plus the Management Allowance Level 2 payment of £4,469 per annum. There is also an Upper Pay Scale for teachers who have successfully gone through the Threshold Assessment.
If you would like further information and an application form, please either telephone 01481 726848 or email: EDU-personnel@education.gov.gg
Completed application forms should be returned to the Director of Education, PO Box 32, Grange Road, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 3AU to arrive no later than Wednesday 24th March 2010.

Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd March 2010

KIRKLEES MUSIC SCHOOL

TEACHING VACANCIES
Required from 1st September 2010

VOCAL TEACHERS
Part time- approximately 25 hours per week
Part-time- approximately 15 hours per week

PERCUSSION TEACHER
Part-time- approximately 6 hours per week

STEEL PANS TEACHER
Part-time- approximately 2 hours per week

CLASSICAL GUITAR TEACHERS
Part-time- approximately 25 hours per week
Part-time- approximately 6-10 hours per week

All positions will be hourly paid

All applicants for these posts will be required to teach both small group/individual lessons and work with whole class (Wider Opportunities) and/or whole school initiatives. You must have a passion for widening access to music for all children; have a proven track record of excellence and the ability to motivate young people to achieve their potential.

Applications are also invited from suitably qualified and experienced music specialists to join the KMS “Teacher Pool”- for Strings, Woodwind, Electric Guitar, Curriculum and Brass- a central resource for instrumental and vocal teaching in Kirklees.

Pay scale is the equivalent of M1-M6 for QTS or national unqualified pay scale for non-QTS.

For an application pack please contact Anna Farmer- PA to the Senior Management Team, Kirklees Music School, 9 Beast Market, Huddersfield, HD1 1QF.
Tel: 01484 426426 email anna.farmer@kirkleesmusicschool.org.uk

Closing date for all application Monday 22nd March 2010

Interviews will take place sometime between the weeks of Monday 19th April
until Friday 30th April 2010

A £100,000 grant was announced this week to seed fund partnerships between local authority music services and orchestras and ensembles in London.  The programme will open in May 2010 and will cover projects in the academic year September 2010 to July 2011.  The aim is to give young people the experience of working with professional musicians, encouraging them to make music in ensembles whilst helping to raise their musical aspirations.  It will also strengthen and deepen the partnership working between London’s music services and the orchestral sector.  The fund will be administered by the GLA in partnership with the Federation of Music Services’ London region, and working closely in the first instance with the Association of British Orchestras (ABO). 

The GLA Music Education Programme steering board will be chaired by Karen Brock, Head of Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES).

You can download a copy of the GLA Music Education Strategy here:

Making Music Matter - Music Education Strategy for London 2010-2012

Member of Music Manifesto Partnership and Advocacy Group

Investment in music and cultural education in Finland and its place as the top performing country for educational attainment of 15 year olds in reading, maths and science is no coincidence.  That was my conclusion after spending two days in Finland visiting schools and music schools, talking to key music educators and studying information about the Finnish education system.

In Finland the key to the link between music and cultural education and educational attainment is that across all Finnish education there is a focus on Finnish culture.  From history to home economics the national curriculum in Finland stresses the importance of studying Finnish culture, other cultures which have influenced Finland, and other cultures from around the world.  The sense of identity this gives to people living in Finland is a major factor in promoting confidence and achievement in a nation which has historically been overshadowed by its much larger neighbours.

In the UK we tend to use the arts to teach about different cultures.  It is time we developed a more positive approach to giving young people a cultural identity.  This will also improve community cohesion in multi cultural Britain.  To enjoy and value other cultures we must first value the culture of our own heritage.  That is true whether a young person’s cultural heritage is from a region in England or from another part of the world or a mixture.

We already know how music and the arts can contribute to young people’s development.  They can learn vital personal, social and educational skills to enable them to achieve.  Through the arts young people can explore challenges and adversities in life, understand them better and take strength from coping with them.  Young artists can make a positive contribution to their communities.  Investing in arts education will build resilience in vulnerable young people, reduce youth crime and disorder and reduce the number of NEET young people (Not in Education, Employment and Training).  Investing in arts education will save money.

This is well understood in Finland.  An international study of arts education in more than sixty countries found that Finland has far more arts education than any other country.  Finnish music schools have more than five times the funding from central government compared to music services in England, and more than eight times the funding from Finnish municipalities than music services receive from local authorities in England.  Yet the overall spending on education in Finland is very similar to here.

Let us use music and cultural education to give our young people their own cultural identity and the confidence, self esteem and aspiration which goes with it.  Let us use music and cultural education to enable our young people to achieve as highly as the highest performing nations in the world.

The full-length article can be downloaded here:  Lessons in music and education from Finland

What marks this conference is the amount of practical music that is threaded through the seminars and presentations. Two outstanding concerts were relished by delegates. The first was by Tim Garland and his superb jazz trio ‘Storms/Nocturnes’. They played a fabulous number called ‘Rising Tide’, which would make a great signature tune for our leadership programme ‘Rising with the Tide’ - and by the way we still have literally one or two places left for the September course. I believe that this leadership training is essential for anyone considering taking a leadership post in a music service and it is also ideal for recently appointed heads. So if you have been considering this I recommend you sign up quickly by contacting sarah.adamson@federationmusic.org.uk.

The second concert was by the choir of Ripon Cathedral. It was inspiring in every sense and reinforced my fervent belief that in singing children can and do match the highest standards of adults. In a demanding programme, which they sailed through with technical and musical mastery, I thought about a parallel between words in Walton’s Te Deum - ‘the truth endureth from generation to generation’ and the ‘enduring’ nature of learning in music. At a time when we are articulating our message about the power of music we know that we will never fail to pass on our love of music to the next generation.

In some ways that was a theme of the conference and was certainly implicit in the keynote by Deborah Annetts, Chief Executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. Deborah articulated what many delegates were thinking; that the Music Standards Fund, which is the backbone of music education funding, must be centrally retained and ring-fenced for music education. Her messages about the great heritage that we have, and the need to ensure that opportunities are sustained for young people to fulfil their potential through high quality teaching often in music services, were clearly supported by all. We also appreciated her determination to fight for the sake of all our young musicians.

There is, I truly believe, a ground swell of support for music services. There is recognition that we have a central role in ensuring that sustained pathways are clearly available to all children - from first steps, through progressive routes in lessons, ensembles, choirs and orchestras, to accelerated programmes for gifted musicians. There is, therefore a high expectation - and with that comes responsibility. We haven’t used the term ‘hub’ very much recently, but perhaps we should again. With possible structural changes locally and nationally, we need to ensure that music services retain their front line role of delivery, whilst doing more in the areas of brokering, commissioning and forging partnerships with other organisations who share our objectives. At the conference there were many delegates who are not members of music services as such, but nevertheless I sincerely hope that they all feel warmly welcomed by their local music services. I hope we draw them into our communities and work together in providing the highest standards of learning in music.

I note that the Conservative Party is now telling us to ‘vote for change’. Well, I think that whichever party one votes for, change is inevitable. And of course change has been the theme of the Music Service Communication Campaign. Managing change is one thing - our teams, our structures. But to my mind it is ‘leading’ change, which is even more important. Our leadership is about finding solutions, taking opportunities, exploring alternatives and moving forward with confidence. It’s also about uniting the forces inside and outside music services. I am reassured by the strengthening friendships and advocacy of our partners in education. But I am also determined that the FMS also communicates its message with force and clarity, so that we will have no doubt about our legacy for the next generation.

Tides flowing and music services flowing from one generation to another - knowing the truth about why we teach music, why we serve children, schools and families and why we make Britain musical.

Closing date for applications: 4 March 2010

Oldham Music Service

Peripatetic Music Teacher
Temporary to cover Maternity Leave
Salary: Unqualified Teachers Pay Scale/Qualified Teachers Pay Scale, dependant upon experience and qualification
Hours: As required to fulfil the business needs of the Music Service
Ref: PCS10/0081

We require an enthusiastic and experienced Peripatetic Music Teacher to deliver curriculum music at KS1 and 2.

Some evening and weekend work may be required and the ability to travel between schools and other venues is essential.
The Oldham Music Service is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The posts are subject to an enhanced CRB disclosure.
Based: Various locations across the Oldham Borough

Closing date: 4 March 2010

You can apply online or download a job application pack at www.oldham.gov.uk or phone 0161 770 4677 or text 07732 596009