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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.

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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.