LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY MUSIC AWARDS
1999/2000

DIPLOMAS

Last year we highlighted Brighton and Hove's plans to customise a building to house a new Centre for Contemporary Music. Following the investment of £25,000 for new equipment this is now operational and includes a music technology suite, studios for drums, guitars and keyboards. For the first time, keyboard and guitar tuition is now on offer to all secondary schools and has proved to be very popular. We were especially pleased to learn of an expansion of brass teaching to Year 5 and 6 pupils in primary schools. Over three terms, 60 per cent more pupils were learning to play brass instruments. In partnership with the Education Action Zone (EAZ), additional and new music-making opportunities were also provided. For example:

· free keyboard and guitar lessons are provided to all Year 4 pupils in the EAZ and instruments are loaned free of charge;
· pupils in years 10 and 11 taking GCSE music were given additional 30 minute individual instrumental lessons weekly.

Popular, rock and world musics and young people not currently participating in music making will be the focus of a new consortium involving also the East Sussex, Medway and Surrey LEA music services. An impressive INSET programme included workshops led by the London Sinfonietta and an introduction to the music of Duke Ellington within the context of the National Curriculum.

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