Projects - Music

The Music Project

The aim of the project has been to work together within the FCLP and in close partnership with Somerset Music and other bodies to expand our provision and offer a range of creative opportunities through music for our children and young people.

We are striving for:

• Inter-school music visits and a programme of performance opportunities across schools
  
  
• Increasing numbers of children committing to instrumental tuition across the FCLP
  
  
• Strengthening further our links with Somerset Music, Jackdaws Educational Trust, Frome Festival and other partners
  
  
• Developing an out-of-hours programme for young musicians across the FCLP as part of our extended schools provision
  
  
• Contributing to the vision for a collaborative approach to Music and the Arts in Frome
  
  
• Taking up an opportunity for a cultural Music and Art project with Mostar
  
  
• Providing gifted and talented musicians an opportunity to engage creatively with children of similar ability 
  
  

In the coming year we have a new coordinator and are hoping to build on the progress made in this last year. The pupils have done some amazing work and working together has achieved far more than we expected. Frome active will be advertising events in the coming year and we hope for even greater participation and opportunity.

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"Mostar Multimedia Project"

 

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Trinity, St Louis, Vallis, St Johns, Rode and Christ Church Winner of 2008 Frome Federation of Schools Media Oscar, Best Schools Collaboration Media Project

A music and media project involving six first schools in Frome, taking part in filmmaking, dance and music workshops during Jan and Feb 2008.

The filmmaking element produced a series visual media - using video, stop-motion (lego, string, ink) and 2D computer animation, photography and hand drawing. The images were projected onto the stage during the performance.

Animation included use of the letterforms of the Cyrillic alphabet. Themes explored included: the history of the region - war, conflict and resolution, symbolism of colour, the Mostar Bridge (linking one culture to another), hope (reconstruction), loss (destruction of the bridge during civil war), the physical construction of the Mostar Bridge (i.e. a stone arch bridge utilizing a keystone)

The project culminated in two performances at the Merlin Theatre on Thursday 14th February 2008.  The project was jointly co-ordinated by Merlin Theatre.

Curriculum: incl. History, Geography, S.E.A.L., Drama, Music, Art, ICT, Literacy