Network | Music Teacher 2024-25
Alban Education are delighted to continue their collaboration with Hertfordshire Music Service promoting this year’s network giving teachers of music a chance to get together to discuss current issues and changes in the music curriculum. This network is now fully funded by Hertfordshire Music Service.
There are two scheduled face to face sessions planned as follows:
Secondary Network 1 – Thursday, 17th October 2024 from 2.00pm to 3.30pm
The rhythm and notation workshop | Caz Wolfson
Mid Herts Centre for Music and Arts – Birchwood Avenue, Hatfield, AL10 0PS
Caz Wolfson is a percussionist, music educator and passionate advocate for inclusive music-making. She has been teaching music for over twenty years, across a wide range of sectors, engaging with participants aged 3 – 90. She has experience teaching individual and small group percussion lessons, delivering whole class and community workshops in samba drumming, South and West African drumming and dancing and Japanese Taiko drumming, has run school, community and County-level ensembles, and facilitating Creative Music Nurture Groups.
As a freelance percussionist, Caz has performed in major venues across the UK with ensembles and artists including Northern Sinfonia, the Karl Jenkins Festival Orchestra, comedian Bill Bailey and Blur’s bassist Alex Jones. She has been broadcast on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 and her playing has taken her to Europe, Africa, Australia and India.
She graduated with a First Class degree in percussion from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, followed by a Masters at the Guildhall School supported by the Leverhulme Trust and an MBF Music Education Award. After a period of freelance performing, teaching and workshop leading, Caz joined Hertfordshire Music Service in 2015 where she is the Whole Class & Community Music Development Lead for North Herts & Stevenage.
Secondary Network 2 – Wednesday, 5th February 2025 from 4.00pm to 5.30pm
Embedding creativity in composing in the KS3 curriculum | Sally Nicholson
Mid Herts Centre for Music and Arts – Birchwood Avenue, Hatfield, AL10 0PS
Sally Nicholson, Subject Lead for Music – Haileybury Turnford School
Sally Nicholson is currently subject lead for music at Haileybury Turnford School in Hertfordshire, where she has taught for 10 years. She serves on the board of Hertfordshire Music Education Forum and recently completed the Listen Imagine Compose master’s degree in music education with Birmingham City University and Sound and Music.
Who is this course for?
Teachers of Music, Primary and Secondary