Primary Music
Consultant
Ruth McCartney, B.Ed(hons) Cert. Mus.Ed ALCM
I deliver bespoke music support and training.
I have extensive experience of delivering CPD and training to the full spectrum of educators; from undergraduate to experienced professionals.
I believe music education should be engaging and enjoyable/fun for all participants.
A musical environment which nurtures everyone is important to me.
Training & CPD
Whole school training
Extensive tools and support to enable you to successfully deliver your music curriculum.
Curriculum Design
Empowering and facilitating music curriculum design and implementation in your school.
1:1 Music Coordinator Training
Expert and nurturing support for your music coordinator.
Long Term Training
Regular training followed by teacher-led team teaching. This type of support works well over a minimum of 2 terms allowing the teacher to work at their own pace.
Wider Curriculum
Singing
Encouraging and improving singing from class to choir.
Composing
Ideas and inspiration for simple composition.
Music Literacy and Literature
Using stories to inspire composition.
Music & Maths
Music is maths and maths is music, metre, fractions, sequence & pattern.
Listening & Appraising
History of music, exploring listening, recognising and identifying musical features.
Learning with Classroom Instruments
Encouraging group work and sound exploration with tuned and untuned instruments.
Contact
Resources
I have collated several resources that contain various teaching tools and methods that I have developed throughout my career, some of which are available to download here.
These resources are free to use but I do ask that I am credited where appropriate.