Aims & Objectives
Project Aims
For Pupils to:
- Gain new insight into their environment and the environments of others
- Develop new skills in music-making with technology
- Develop their personal communication skills both with their peers and with adults other than teachers
- Integrate their teaching of music and ICT into other curriculum subjects such as Geography, English, History, Art, Citizenship etc
- Achieve the specific skills needed to approach classroom music-making using technology and the confidence to use these skills
- Work with Sonic Arts Network to ensure e-learning facilities are accessible and that they themselves are equipped with adequate training and skills to use these facilities
- Build an identity within their community and with other schools around the UK
- Encourage and support cross-curricular teaching throughout the project
- Discover new approaches to learning through a range of partnerships
Project Objectives
Learning outcomes for Pupils:
- To have created a sonic postcard which represents their local area and to have exchanged this with other participating schools
- To be capable of recording and transforming sounds using the technology available to them
- To have expanded music technology vocabulary and listening skills
- To have developed team work/communication skills and to be comfortable sharing information with peers and adults other than teachers
- To have worked with other subject teachers or within other subject areas and to recognise the potential for cross-curricular work
- To be capable of recording and transforming sounds using their school technology facilities
- To have the confidence to guide students in composition using technology
- To incorporate e-learning initiatives into their teaching
- To have created new working relationships with local community groups, artists and partner school(s)
- To have brought together staff from different subject backgrounds to achieve a single creative outcome
- To incorporate new learning approaches to teaching as a result of new partnerships, new skills, and new resources
