Elizabeth Stafford
@DrLizStafford
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Director @musicedsolution ; Editor @primarymusicmag ; Author of the Primary Music Leader’s Handbook @collinsmusiced ; Music Specialist @kapowprimary
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Turns out I wrote a book 🥳
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Spent most of my Saturday sobbing my way through
#HeartOfInvictus
😭. What incredible stories of personal resilience and perseverance. An excellent watch.
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Sometimes I wonder if it would help to think of secondary as a continuation on from primary, rather than primary as a preparation for secondary? 🧐
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This Christmas has mostly just consisted of me repeatedly saying to my husband: SHHHH I'm watching
#EastEnders
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@anylaurie16
Smelt nuts. Asked if he’d eaten nuts. He said no. Then he kissed me. And I had anaphylaxis. And he stood there saying “Ugh disgusting!” as my face swelled up. Instead of calling an ambulance. But I continued to date him for 2 whole weeks after. 🧐🤨🤷🏼♀️
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Girl on Facebook says a man at the gym called her a f***ing b*tch, all her male friends ask what she did to provoke him.
#everydaysexism
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Still absolutely buzzing from this afternoon when a pupil with additional needs who’s up to now been non-verbal in music, suddenly joined in with clapping and saying his name, and the rest of the class went nuts! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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Stellar performance from
@CurtisTJohns
at the
@BCRT
ball. Great to see a talent that is worth all the hype!
#music
#charity
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Music education in UK schools devastated by pandemic, survey finds
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Went out for dinner tonight. The entire restaurant staff came out SIX times to sing Happy Birthday to different tables. But amateur choirs can’t rehearse?! 🧐
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Honoured to have been invited to music education powerhouse
@DrFautley
Retirement Lecture this evening. What a career, what an impact, what a man! 😍
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Off to pick my Dad up from the hospital at the end of a successful 2 year battle with cancer. Sometimes there is good news! 🥰
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And yet is quite happy to publicly state what music other schools should be teaching… (See Stormzy v Mozart!) Glass houses and all that… 🙄
The head, Katharine Birbalsingh, told inspectors that “most pupils are not really interested in music but they teach it in depth in Y7 and Y8,” with “limited facilities” also reported as a reason.
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This panel contains some fantastic people who I have the greatest respect for. But where are the education academics? The ITT providers? The non-specialist primary teachers? This panel needs to represent those who will deliver the curriculum.
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@jameelajamil
Or we just need these men to understand the very simple difference between mentoring a woman and harassing her...
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Not going to lie, I squealed when this arrived in the post today!
@TeachPrimary
@musicedsolution
@TeacherDevTrust
@musicmarkuk
@ISM_music
@official_isme
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I feel like we are not perhaps shouting the message loud enough that the
#ModelMusicCurriculum
is non-statutory. As an educator it would be irresponsible not to read and consider it, same as any other relevant DfE document, but if you then decide it’s not for you, that’s ok!
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Excited to have ACTUAL PLANS for this evening! Gone for the unashamedly middle class combination of M&S pizza deal &
#MischiefMovieNightIn
for husband’s birthday!
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I wonder if I can find a million people who are interested in music education?
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Before I discovered cogsci I had no idea how to teach music. Sometimes we hit the piano with a spoon, other times we set fire to untuned percussion instruments. Finally I found the Model Music Curriculum and now we learn how to write staff notation.
Before I discovered cogsci, I had no idea how to teach maths. Sometimes I would get kids to discover how to graph functions. Sometimes we cast spells to bring enlightenment. Finally I found a text book and began explaining math and children began doing math questions.
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I often feel the least believable bit in Harry Potter is the section in the third film where the choir gives a performance on day 1 of the new school year.
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Had such a great moment today when one of our pupils with additional needs (normally found wandering round the classroom, disengaged) suddenly picked up a beater and played along perfectly to the glockenspiel tracks we’ve been learning all half term. 😍😍😍😍😍
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@jameelajamil
Seen lots of comments saying you shouldn’t have used the term “triggered” because of the mental health definition. We also use this term in education all the time to describe the causes of challenging behaviour, so I think you’re using it appropriately for this context. 😘
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Some useful
#musiced
people to follow for a rainy Saturday morning (or indeed any other weather condition!)
@ollietdrums
@AllyDaubney
@MikeSimpsonTV
@GarySpruce1
@DrFautley
@MarieB_Music
@alanhcameron1
@Johnfinney8
@ClareWheatGoo
@helenrachbaker
@N8Holder
@jpjsavage
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Played my daughter Stravinsky’s Firebird this morning.
“Mummy, you’ve inspired me, I know what I want to be when I grow up!” Really darling, what’s that?
“A chicken.”
🤦♀️
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We need more moderate voices in
#musiced
. Ones that actually understand what is happening in schools to counter the “everything is awful/awesome” soundbite brigade, whose message is formed solely within the echo chamber of their own opinions.
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OFSTED MUSIC SUBJECT REPORT
A thread 🧵
(bear with me for any typos I’ve got Covid and insanely long nails left over from my brother’s wedding 😂)
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I wasn’t interested in maths in Year 9, but they still made me do it…
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My little
#ShakespeareAndHathaway
superfan was absolutely bowled over with her visit to
@LordLeycester
today. She can’t stop smiling! 😍
@markbenton100
@dollyjoyner
@PatrickWMcB
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@AnnaGHughes
@starstrickenSF
Went to set up in a university conference room for my talk and there was a naked man sitting in there. We locked eyes and he said “oh sorry I thought this room was free,” casually and slowly dressed himself AND THEN SAT THERE FOR MY ENTIRE PRESENTATION.
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TBH we can all learn something from my 7yo’s out of office strategy.
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I’m going to have DO NOT PLAY THE INSTRUMENTS WHILE I AM SPEAKING tattooed on my forehead to save time.
#musicteacherproblems
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@manwhohasitall
Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Hemsworth’s brother.
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@PatrickAllies
They can follow it up with The Creation Goes Wrong, where the bass soloist finds out on the day that there is a Part 3, and the first oboe has to teach it to him in McDonalds between the rehearsal and the concert oh no wait that actually happened. 🤣
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I mean, if you’re going to do a hat, you may as well do a HAT, right? Off to Mozart-it-up at baby bro’s wedding, hope it doesn’t fall off during the coloratura bits 😂.
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Woke up with a big grin on my face, knowing that yesterday we signed off on a new partnership which is going to do a lot of good for music education! 😊 And THAT is all I’m saying for now!
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8 years after marrying my husband, we discovered that our grandfathers (who both died before we were born) had escaped France together in WW2. His grandfather’s name and number appears in my grandfather’s officers logbook as one of the men he took charge of on the beach!
Tell me a story about yourself the sounds like a lie but is absolutely true.
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I’m sensing a pattern:
1. No-one’s using the MMC - let’s tie it to the evaluation process for the NPME.
2. No-one’s using Oak - let’s embed it into teacher training.
Why can’t they just admit when they’ve got things wrong instead of flogging two extremely dead horses?
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@jacobtwop
@Reductress
The Cleaner does my vacuuming. Oh gosh, am I living in a real life version of The Handmaid's Tale?!
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When school music budgets can be as low as £50 pa, how on earth do conference organisers think it is ok to charge almost £300 for an ONLINE music curriculum conference? 😱
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New blog…
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Thank you so much
@RoyalOperaHouse
for inviting team
@musicedsolution
to the schools matinee of The Magic Flute today. So lovely to see so many Primary children enjoying opera - especially the bit with the glitter..! 🎶
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This is a good read.
Music Education will not save Classical Music.
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It’s been a long time in the making, but I’m thrilled that next week sees the start of the
@JsyMusicService
JGTTP - a one-year, fully funded, salaried route to QTS for instrumental teachers. 🥳
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Guys! You won’t BELIEVE this, but I have thoughts on the new National Plan for Music Education. 😜 Yes there will be blogs and webinars coming soon. 😂
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They broke the no singing rule too?! Wait till the amateur choirs find out!! 👀
So, when people in an office buy a cake in the middle of the afternoon for someone else they are working in the office with and stop for ten minutes to sing happy birthday and then go back to their desks, this is now called a party?
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Who says “fish and chips” as crotchet, crotchet, crotchet. Surely it’s quaver quaver crotchet? “Why how now my good man I would like a portion of fish AND chips.” 🧐🐟
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Just positioning my camera ready for our first ever
@musicedsolution
Zoom course! Massive respect and thanks to
@BMaestros
for switching to online rather than cancelling, and to the 32 teachers finding the time to tune in from home. 🎶
#DiveDeeperIntoMusic
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My husband bought us a new washing machine due to the old one breaking. I have just done my first load and I KID YOU NOT instead of beeping when it’s done it plays Schubert’s The Trout. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Oh for goodness sake! I am allowed to put together MY OWN list of PERSONAL recommendations for who to follow on Twitter without people constantly going “look who you’ve missed.” 1. I won’t recommend people I don’t know. 2. Maybe I do know them but I don’t recommend them??!! 🙄
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How are Westlife going to do their key change when they’re already standing up 🧐
#StrictlyComeDancing
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And now, watch in amazement as we improve music education by transforming the number of music hubs from 116 to 43.
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@Komaniecki_R
I think it has to be an organisational decision. Either everyone is first name, or everyone is title/last name. I don’t mind either Liz or Dr Stafford as long as it’s consistent with whatever everyone else is called.
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Just taught my 8yo the dance routine to Reach for the Stars, in our local coffee shop, and I feel that I have reached Peak Mum. (Also, I can never come here again.)
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Another positive about the
#modelmusiccurriculum
is that I’ve made lots of new Twitter friends. In a process that I believe is known as “trauma bonding.”
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While we’ve all been here having our lighthearted “fish & chips” rhythm debate,
@N8Holder
has been exposing a troubling side of the
#ModelMusicCurriculum
which I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t spotted myself. Please pop over to his account and read his very important tweets. 🙏
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Great couple of days at
#MDEE23
but now it’s definitely an afternoon of telly and tea for me. 😴🎶🫖
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Finally found the time to put the Christmas decorations up in my music room. 😜
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Team
@musicedsolution
ready and prepared for this year’s most important Music Ed event: the wedding of
@MarieB_Music
and
@danfrancismusic
😍👰♀️🤵♂️💍💒
#DanMarie22
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Apparently now the MMC is “central” to the NPME, despite the MMC only being a non-statutory exemplar of how the national curriculum could be approached. But then we all knew that would happen… 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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Feeling for all the music hubs who now have a matter of weeks to create a raft of new documentation to show how they’re going to deliver NPME2 next year, whilst simultaneously preparing their bids to be selected to continue delivering NPME2 the year after!
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When you’re from the Midlands you have to take every opportunity to go and see the sea, even if it means ruining your hair for
#MusicMark22
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If I was a music hub I’d be FUMING today.
2019: “Hubs are nothing to do with the MMC”
2022: “Make everything you do align with the MMC.”
The
#ModelMusicCurriculum
is NON STATUTORY & has been UNIVERSALLY PANNED. What are
@educationgovuk
&
@ace_national
playing at?!
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Hoping the DfE resists any urges to publish something about music tomorrow so we can all actually get a holiday this time round...
#ModelMusicCurriculum
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@SianBiggar
@omniphonik
@chrisdysonHT
@kateowbridge
@PaulGarvey4
Ours aren’t completely free, but we’ve reduced them from £99 to £10 just so we can cover the cost of hosting the accounts:
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Early morning trip to Morrisons and the cashier said “Primary Teacher?” And I was like “Wow! How does she know?” 😆
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@FernRiddell
This is so freaky, I have just plucked up the courage to complain about being referred to as Ms instead of Dr on our exam board paperwork (three years running), and I was really apologetic about it. I wish I had seen this tweet first and I would just have read it out verbatim!
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You always know a presentation is excellent when you don’t have time to tweet about it. Great
#musiced
double-act from
@AllyDaubney
&
@DrFautley
at today’s
#ISMmembersday
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Is it just me being grumpy, or is anyone else finding the constant narrative around schools being “challenged” “challenging conversations” “required to engage with” really wearing? How about we trust that schools know what they’re doing, and try and SUPPORT them? 🙄
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My child who has hitherto only done music because I made her, has just asked for a djembe for Christmas, and I’m trying to play it cool and not seem too excited in case it puts her off. 😂
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I don’t have a hot take on when schools should ‘re-open.’ I do have a hot take on the fact that they’ve never been closed....
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Who me? Just hanging out in my private box at The Royal Opera House. Nothing to see here, move along, move along!
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Progression in music does not equal “adding more stuff.” I think this may be the crux of the problem...
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So with Nick Gibb gone, what does that mean for NPME2? Can we now finally publicly admit (as so many of those involved have privately) that the
#ModelMusicCurriculum
was just a Gibb pet project, and is not fit for purpose?
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The Telegraph knows this is not a picture of Matt Griffiths, right?! 🤔
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Thank you so much to all the colleagues from across the country and particularly the West Midlands, who supported our nomination to honour
@jmthommo
one last time for his amazing contribution to music education with the
#MDEAwards
Lifetime Achievement Memorial Award
@SIPS_music
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Those of us who actually work in education are fully aware that due to widely held misconceptions around definitions of “cultural capital”, classical music is pretty much the ONLY type of music that is NOT endangered in our schools…
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I would be interested to know what the appointment process was, as I hadn’t heard of this being advertised anywhere? Do any of my
#musiced
Twitter contacts know how it was offered out, or who else applied?
I’m pleased to announce that
@ABRSM
has won a competitive process to draft the new non-statutory Model Music Curriculum. Drawing on ABRSM’s expertise and its team of education professionals, and steered by our expert panel, this will be an important resource for schools.
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Absolutely blown away by the support from colleagues, friends, and even total strangers here today. Restored my faith in humankind 😍.
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I just team-taught Year 2 music alongside my 8yo daughter and to be honest I feel I have peaked as a teacher and a mother and may as well just retire as nothing will get better than this! 😍
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Today’s thoughts from instrumental teachers in Dundee on what makes an excellent teacher.
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The things we music teachers do in the holidays....
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It’s an interesting flex to think reopening the bidding process for hub leads will create “ever stronger partnerships”. Surely leaving the decade-old existing ones intact would be a more reliable strategy?!
#NPME2
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A genuinely lovely man died suddenly and tragically yesterday, leaving behind my friend and her two young children. A terrible reminder of how a whole future can change in an instant. I have been holding my own loved ones extra tight today. 😢
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For the one millionth time IT’S NOT A NEW CURRICULUM. Maybe this is an error, but given that the DfE also keep referring to it as such, it is starting to feel like Westminster is attempting to make the
#modelmusiccurriculum
statutory by stealth.
Join us on the 10th November to discuss music education in England & implementing the new curriculum! Speakers include
@Ofstednews
@davidmorrisml
@BWhyteMusic
@SConnections
@FouracreHannah
@simon_procter
@DeborahAnnetts
@Philip_Flood
@RCMLondon
! More info:
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Chatted to a secondary music teacher today whose school is implementing the 6-student-minimum policy for A level subjects. Prevalence of this is a disaster in the making - has anyone anywhere since the dawn of time ever had more than 6 students in an A level music class?!
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