"Ten Pieces"

[MrGongGong]

Your picture shows a group of Bright Young Things. What can we deduce from it? Well, nothing really except that they are young and seem to be enjoying themselves (despite the rain) although I have to say brown shoes with black dinner jacket is not on really. Perhaps he ain't been brung up proper?

See foot, take aim, FIRE

I think you live in a very different world my friend

[MrGongGong]

Glyndebourne only suggests what you can wear. .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(god, how I hate that word - so Woosterish).

My cat's called Wooster.

[Bax-of-Delights]

See foot, take aim, FIRE

I think you live in a very different world my friend

Sarcasm is very difficult to spot isn't it, Mr GG?

And don't presume anything about my world, please. You have no idea.

[french frank]

B-o-D

(And trying to relate this to the OP), I'm not objecting to or criticising Glyndebourne's summer season, or anyone who goes and enjoys it - for whatever reason. My whole point is Live and Let Live (and I would be very appreciative of GTO if it came this way ). What I was regretting was that the fact that that Glyndebourne image was lodged in many people's consciousness as representative of opera, like the top ticket prices at ROH. And I have been to ROH (and many other opera houses) in my usual garb and no one turned a hair and they weren't all dressed up to the nines.

But getting back, that image of opera also brushes off on classical music as a whole: it's for the wealthy, not for people like me. And that's the viewpoint that children are brought up with by whoever - parents, teachers, friends, journalists who themselves aren't into classical music. In that climate, of course 'children don't like classical music'.

[jean]

But won't some of the youngsters we're talking about spend thousands on dressing up for their own weddings when the time comes?

And here we have Ladies' Day at Aintree this year:

[MrGongGong]

Sarcasm is very difficult to spot isn't it, Mr GG?

And don't presume anything about my world, please. You have no idea.

Ok, no offence meant

[MrGongGong]

But getting back, that image of opera also brushes off on classical music as a whole: it's for the wealthy, not for people like me. And that's the viewpoint that children are brought up with by whoever - parents, teachers, friends, journalists who themselves aren't into classical music. In that climate, of course 'children don't like classical music'.

Exactly

and (again) "we" are atypical

[french frank]

And my point about GTO: as you know, I live in Bristol



We have WNO once a year, and Ellen Kent ...

[doversoul1]

Talking about teaching children Shakespeare
Introducing A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds)

http://www.immersiveeducation.eu/pdf/tsp/ks2shakespeare.pdf

Outcomes
By the end of these sessions, students will have:
• an understanding of a section of text from A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
• written a list of adjectives which describe Titania or Oberon
• justified their description by choosing appropriate quotations
from the text
• written a character reference for Titania or Oberon for a job
application.

Admittedly, this is rather old (2002) but I think the last item is particularly creative. Ten Pieces project seems to be coming from the similar thinking*. This way, teachers can assess each child’s achievement objectively using the marking scheme. Never mind the actual play or the music. That’s Literature and Classical Music done (I don’t blame teachers).

*Phase Two

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4KCVB2XVgPQ0JwnqLGJl8y0/about-bbc-ten-pieces

[MrGongGong]

I think you miss the point dover

I don't think there's anything in this that is marked
had a marking scheme
or any other such thing

I might have missed the "marking scheme" could you send a link to it ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

, teachers can assess each child’s achievement objectively using the marking scheme. Never mind the actual play or the music. That’s Literature and Classical Music done (I don’t blame teachers)

Whoah there, dovers! "understanding a section of text", "justified their description by choosing appropriate quotations from the text" - in what way is this "never mind(ing) the actual play"?

[doversoul1]

I think you miss the point dover

I don't think there's anything in this that is marked
had a marking scheme
or any other such thing

I might have missed the "marking scheme" could you send a link to it ?

The marking scheme for Ten Pieces is not published (for general public to access) as far as I know but why else other than to mark / assess children do schools these days spend time on any projects? I wish they did*. The contents of Phase Two are a list of standard classroom activates, are they not?

*I do know some schools/head teachers do but that tends to be their own things. Even that is usually linked to some areas of assessment.

ferneyhoughgeliebte
You can ‘dismiss’ it as my prejudice but there you are. It’s just me. I don’t like / believe in feeding children with bits.
(Thank you for the proofreading : never mind(ing)

[MrGongGong]

The marking scheme for Ten Pieces is not published

That's probably because it doesn't exist

but why else other than to mark / assess children do schools these days spend time on any projects?

Well, I know lots of other reasons why schools do music projects.

[Bryn]

... Well, I know lots of other reasons why schools do music projects.

Some might even do it because someone in charge has grasped just how much it contributes to a child's all round intellectual development.