Key Stage 2 (KS2) Music and Wider Opportunities
Allocation of funds from Standards Funds for Music 2011 / 12
For All County and City and Special Schools with KS2, County 10+ high schools information about support for KS2 Music and Wider Opportunities pledge is now available. Please see related documents below. Schools can implement their own Widder Opportunities project or work in partnership with Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service. Please return one of the forms below as soon as possible or by 11th May 2011 at the latest to access funding and /or the projects.
Please contact Divya Haller for help with any queries before you send in your request.
Telephone: 0116 2700850
Email: divya.haller@leics.gov.uk
Information packs for County schools:
Wider Opportunities Information Letter for Primary Schools (Word doc. 62kb)
Form to request a Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service Project (Word doc.33kb)
Planning Form for schools implementing their own projects (Word doc.85kb)
Information packs for City Schools:
Wider Opportunities Information Letter for 10+ High Schools (Word doc.62kb)
Form to request a Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service Project (Word doc.39kb)
Planning Form for 10+ High schools implementing their own projects (Word doc. 86kb)
The Wider Opportunities Programme for Instrumental and Vocal Learning has been running for over two years for pupils at Key Stage 2. In November 2008 visits were carried out in a sample of 31 schools in Leicester and Leicestershire. The report and a summary gives an evaluation of the programme in schools along with case studies of effective practice.
Please click on one of the titles in bold below to download the relevant document.
Summary Report for the Quality Monitoring Project of Wider Opportunites in Leicester-Shire and Leicester City Primary Schools (Word doc. 39kb)
Full Report for the Quality Monitoring Project of Wider Opportunities Music in Leicester-Shire and Leicester City Schools (Word. doc 89kb)
The OFSTED report published February 2009 is also included below for your reference:
Making More of Music An Evaluation of music in schools (PDF doc. 233kb)
A joint Leicestershire County Council and Leicester City Council Service
Page Last Updated: 17 January 2012
