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Back on my preferred side of the studio glass recording some more resources for our mentors out in school. Thanks to our colleagues from CHS and Danescourt Primary School for braving the cameras and mics, and to SportBroadcastMSc & Sport MediaBSc for the lovely kit!

Sitting in our lovely studio minding the buttons and flashing lights while Dr Kirsten Stevens-Wood records for BBC Radio 4 for a programme on community going out later tonight. Massive thanks to Pete at SportBroadcastMSc & Sport MediaBSc for setting us up!

TOMORROW: we welcome Finola Wilson from Impact Wales to the podcast - she's got a new book out about closing the disadvantage gap in schools. Tune in!

A different approach to curriculum than here in Wales inasmuch as this review advocates a specific and knowledge-rich focus.

THIS FRIDAY: It's time for us to head off on our Summer break, but before we do, here's Richard West from Stanwell_School with an episode all about physics. Here's Richard doing us all favour by busting the myth that physics is a boys' subject.

Elizabeth MacGregor’s Musical Vulnerability is a fine ex of ethnography: strong conceptual/theoretical framework, rigorous research strategies, thick qualitative data, penetrating analysis, all deepening and extending theory and easily generalisable to reader’s own practice. 1/2

I've mainly been shocking and offending journal peer reviewers this year rather than students. Can we warn them too? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

…and I made a ‘3 minute literature’ episode about it, with no AI assistance! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3-m…

It was 20 years ago today... no, not a Sgt. Pepper quote, but I did my first day in my first teaching job on 4th July 2005. I remember looking to the back of the room to see no mentor watching me. I was on my own! Cheers 7B1, I wonder where you all are now.

Thomas Breeze Well, 20 years ago in September, you taught me (Maddy Davies). Then you couldn’t get rid of me for another 10 years until I graduated uni! I’m now Head of Music & Drama at Bryn. All down to you & Marv being the BEST Music teachers ever🙌🏼🎵 Hope you’re doing well Mr B!

Exactly this ⬇ And musical learning demonstrated should be musical. As the oft-attributed saying goes "writing about music is like dancing about architecture". same goes for expecting other forms of knowledge transfer - in itself a problematic notion for the Neo-trads!

Thomas Breeze 11 years ago you were teaching me, Sir! I will never forget your inspiring lessons and epic accompaniments. Loved singing with you 🎹🎵

Phew… first day of a mammoth 2-day bilingual lecture recording session done for next year’s PGCE. Huge thanks to Pete, Ethan, Caitlin and all at @metbroadcast, and thank goodness for the studio air conditioning!

Sad news. I enjoyed seeing Norrington’s Mahler 9 at the BBC Proms from the top of the Albert Hall in 2011 (was it really that long ago?!) theguardian.com/music/2025/jul…

Don’t write for fame or money. Write because you agreed to a deadline, forgot the deadline, and just remembered the deadline

Allen Tsui Prof Martin Fautley Haringey Music Service Music is a statutory part of the curriculum. It's not an extra. 'If they're musical, there's opportunity after school' isn't enough. Developing every pupil's musicality is a statutory curriculum responsibility of every school. And that requires good classroom musuc teachers.

Great to have another article out this month, with thanks to lead author Elizabeth MacGregor and Viv John. Top marks for creativity to the journal, who replaced the title with an annotation from the proofing process 😂 - hope to have that fixed soon… doi.org/10.1080/106329…