Vicky Chamberlain

Proud Head of Music in Colchester. Passionate about arts education.

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@JMBetteridge @historyinmemes Jeez!! That is amazing!!

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@fluffyollie @SusanCalman @mikehirschkorn She is beautiful🐈

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@dombrasted @RealGeoffBarton @PieCorbett But specifically music education has a beneficial impact on all children regardless of ability.

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@DrFautley @JamesHumbers @myBCUresearch @JasonGoopy Our entries are always very high for GCSE as a % of intake. Happy to discuss if you want to PM me.

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We had a great day yesterday, with our string players leading an afternoon workshop with young people from 13 Essex schools. Thanks very much @EssexMusicHub and @OrchestrasLive!

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@CarolineSmileey @Samfr Wow! Although we weren’t pregnant this summer at least. Not sure what I’d have done in 42 degrees!

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@CraigHancock17 @Steven_Berryman (2/2) which doesn’t force students to choose between arts subjects. Many do more than one and we have healthy numbers in drama and dance GCSE too.

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@CraigHancock17 @Steven_Berryman We have. We went from regularly having around 40 students out of 320 to an average of around 75 a year group. We have really carefully constructed our KS3 curriculum, fine all GCSE students for a 15min lesson instrumental lesson a week and have an excellent options system (1/2)

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@Samfr I’m assuming we still don’t know what is actual brief is?

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@ClarkeMicah There’s an assumption here that Grammar schools are “good schools”.

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@RealGeoffBarton @ASCL_UK @ClassicFM The decline in GCSE music is driven by heads that don’t understand it’s value. Fortunately mine does. However we are amongst very few state schools that have large cohorts and a full range of GCSE grades because we place no restrictions on students to take the subject.

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@MusicEdu4all There are small slivers of hope.

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@MusicEdu4all Nowhere near as much as I did. The students are very good at self policing and most of them feel it’s unacceptable.

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@schamberlainCEO Hey thanks darling! Happy Valentines Day to you too ��️❤️

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@glosswitch We certainly weren’t singing in schools that’s for sure!

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@LandroverRich @russell_kane Hi Richard and Dawn👋🏻. We were right behind you and very grateful 😁😁. You were great!

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@Number10cat @Peston 1/2All of my colleagues’ workload was at least doubled during both lockdowns. Planning and teaching online was a whole new skill set we had to adapt to with very little time, not to mention additional pastoral workload, offering the children of key workers face to face education.