Author: Dave Pitt

Hi everyone,

Just a quick note about the 2016 CWSMTA AGM.

When – Thursday May 5^th

Time – 4.00 – 5.00

Where – Papanui High School Music Block

30 Langdons road

 

Would be great to see you there and get your input 🙂

Cheers

Dave

Hi everyone,

Moderation Cluster Meeting at Nelson Boys College. 

Below are the details for 2016 cluster meeting in Nelson. (Thanks Adrienne). This is a chance to bring along your students’ work and talk about the standards that your students are currently doing. Remember to bring along student work that is borderline, e.g. Not Achieved /Achieved, Achieved/Merit, Merit/Excellence. This will be a great chance to touch base with other music teachers and to brush up on the standards. Don’t be afraid to bring your worst students’ work!! These students can sometimes be the ones we learn the most from. You can also gain some great feedback from other teachers on how best to give advice to your students and to “chew the fat” about any department concerns you may have.

WHEN – Friday Sept 9th. 9.00-2.30

WHERE – Nelson Boys College

Nelson

WHAT – Level 1 Composition and Solo Performance

Level 2 Instrumentation and Group

Level 3 Arranging and Composition

(Feel free to bring anything else that you feel you would like some feedback on)

EQUIPMENT PROVIDED –  Sibelius 6 (Please make sure you save your students work as a Sibelius 6 file if needed)

Data projector

P.A

C.D/DVD player

Photocopier
Please don’t reply to this email or it will go to all CWSMTA members. If you can make the cluster then please respond by a quick email to Dave at: Ptd@papanui.school.nz

Thanks and look forward to seeing you then.

Dave Pitt

CWSMTA Chair

Hi everyone,

Moderation Cluster meeting at Westland High School 

Below are the details for the first moderation cluster meeting for 2016. (Thanks James). This is a chance to bring along your students’ work and talk about the standards that your students are currently doing. Remember to bring along student work that is borderline, e.g. Not Achieved /Achieved, Achieved/Merit, Merit/Excellence. This will be a great chance to touch base with other music teachers and to brush up on the standards. Don’t be afraid to bring your worst students’ work!! These students can sometimes be the ones we learn the most from. You can also gain some great feedback from other teachers on how best to give advice to your students and to “chew the fat” about any department concerns you may have.

WHEN – Friday 8^th April. 9.00-2.30

WHERE – Westland High School Music Department.

140 Hampden St, Hokitika 7810 03-755 6169

Feel free to bring along any examples of students work.
LUNCH – Snacks will be provided

COST – Free

Please don’t reply to this email or it will go to all CWSMTA members. If you can make the cluster then please respond by a quick email to Dave at: Ptd@papanui.school.nz

Thanks and look forward to seeing you then.

Dave Pitt

 

Below are the details for this year’s Scholarship workshop with Glenda Keam from the U.C. This workshop is aimed at helping and advising your Scholarship students as they prepare for the 2016 music Scholarship exam.

When: Wednesday 14th September

3:00 to 5:00

Where: Rangi Ruru Music Department

59 Hewitts Road

Merivale

Christchurch 8014

 

Hi everyone.

Below are the details for this year’s Scholarship workshop with Glenda Keam from the U.C. This workshop is aimed at helping and advising your Scholarship students as they prepare for the 2015 music Scholarship exam.

When: Wednesday 16th September

3:00 to 5:00

Where: Rangi Ruru Music Department

59 Hewitts Road

Merivale

Christchurch 8014

More information will be sent out in regards to what your Scholarship students need to bring.

Thanks everyone

Dave Pitt

CWSMTA Chairman’s report 2015

2014/2015 saw a change in all three positions for CWSMTA. Secretary, Treasure and Chairman. I’d like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the previous position holders, Janet, Abby and Rachael. These three members have been very influential over the years and have provided great support and P.D opportunities for all the CWSMTA members.

I would also like to give my appreciation to both Georgina and Sue for picking up these crucial roles. They have both done an outstanding job and are a real asset to both CWSMTA and the wider Christchurch musical community. We are very fortunate to have them both here.

I would also like to acknowledge the music HODs and teachers that have given their support over this time of change. We truly have an outstanding knowledge base here in Canterbury and Westland and I’ve really enjoyed going out and seeing what is going on in other schools and communities.

I had three main objectives for CWSMTA. 1. To implement and start local and national cluster meetings for all music teachers. 2. To update and make the web site more user friendly with access for all members of CWSMTA. 3. To recruit more schools to join CWSMTA.

Cluster meetings

Year to date CWSMTA have implemented and run three cluster meetings. One here in CHCH, one on the West Coast and one in South Canterbury. I see these cluster meetings as CWSMTA’s main line of business. They provide a platform for teachers to talk about the standards, compare marking schedules and to provide feedback for students work and to compare their students work with others. Most music departments are small and these meetings hopefully proved a safe environment for teachers to bring students work to the table. Both the CHCH and the Timaru cluster meetings were very well attended and some great student work was on show. The West Coast cluster meeting was also attended by Hagley staff and was very well received although only two out of the five schools attended. I feel it is still very important to create a strong CWSMTA link to the West Coast ; however due to the expense, I have suggested that CWSMTA only goes over every two years as I feel more benefit might be gained if they were to attend a cluster meeting in CHCH every other year. This year sees cluster meeting in CHCH, Timaru and Nelson.

Web Site

I’d like to acknowledge the hard work Georgina Rees-Stevenson has done in creating the new CWSMTA web site. This site offers information, links and resources that are freely available to all CWSMTA members. We are very lucky to have such a talented web designer that was willing to develop the web site further. Well done G.

Recruitment

Through cluster meetings 7 more schools are now signed up including schools in Nelson, West Coast and Timaru. I would like to see further schools signing up especially in Nelson and we will be working hard to contact as many schools as possible before the Nelson cluster meeting in September. Through this network we can offer real help and my goal is to create a buddy system where HODs and TICs and be buddied up with first and second year teachers and music teachers/itinerants that may need specific help in certain areas. The newly designed web site will be critical for this system to work properly.

Finally, CWSMTA has also continued to support the Scholarship workshop at Rangi Ruru and will continue to support the Orchestra Festival when and if required. I am also very keen to develop further P.D opportunities for members and welcome any suggestions for areas that music teachers would like to receive P.D in.

Thank you to all the CWSMTA members that have made this transition run smoothly, and especially the Secretary and Treasurer. Outstanding. I feel very lucky and fortunate to be in this position and I’m looking forward to seeing more schools in the future and the great work that is being done around the South Island.

 

 

Dave Pitt

President CWSMTA

Agenda of AGM of CWSMTA on Tuesday 5th May 2015

at Papanui High School, 30 Langdons road Christchurch 3.45

 

AGM Agenda

 

1. Present

 

2. Apologies

 

3. Minutes of the Last AGM

 

4. Matters Arising

 

5. Amy Bowie Presentation for U.C

 

6. Forte Report

 

7. Treasurer’s Report (S. McLachlan)

 

8. Secretaries Report (G. Rees-Stevenson)

 

9. Chairperson’s Report (D.Pitt)

 

10. Election of Officers –

Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

Other positions?

 

9. Other business

Hi everyone.

NZQA is looking for a panel leader for the Level 3 exam at the end of the year. If you are interested please contact…

Rachael Hawkey

HOF Arts / TIC Music

St. Bede’s College

rhawkey@stbedes.school.nz

Hi everyone,

Moderation Cluster meeting at Roncalli College, Timaru 

Below are the details for the last moderation cluster meeting for 2015. This is a chance to bring along your students’ work and talk about the standards that your students are currently doing. Remember to bring along student work that is borderline, e.g. Not Achieved /Achieved, Achieved/Merit, Merit/Excellence. This will be a great chance to touch base with other music teachers and to brush up on the standards. Don’t be afraid to bring your worst students’ work!! These students can sometimes be the ones we learn the most from. You can also gain some great feedback from other teachers on how best to give advice to your students.

WHEN –        Friday 20^th November 9.00-2.30

WHERE –      Roncalli College 19 Wellington St, Timaru 7910 03-688 6003

WHAT –        Level 1 Composition and Solo Performance

Level 2 Instrumentation and Group

Level 3 Arranging and Composition

(feel free to bring anything else that you feel you would like some feedback on)

LUNCH –      Snacks will be provided

COST –         Free

This will be the last cluster meeting for the year. Hope to see as many of you there as possible.

Please don’t reply to this email or it will go to all CWSMTA members. If you can make the cluster then please respond by a quick email to Dave at: Ptd@papanui.school.nz

Thanks and look forward to seeing you then.

Dave Pitt

CWSMTA Chair

Hi everyone,

Moderation Cluster meeting at Nelson Boys College. 

Below are the details for the second cluster meeting for 2015. This is a chance to bring along your students’ work and talk about the standards that your students are currently doing. Remember to bring along student work that is borderline, e.g. Not Achieved /Achieved, Achieved/Merit, Merit/Excellence. This will be a great chance to touch base with other music teachers and to brush up on the standards. Don’t be afraid to bring your worst students’ work!! These students can sometimes be the ones we learn the most from. You can also gain some great feedback from other teachers on how best to give advice to your students.

WHEN – Friday Sept 11th

WHERE – Nelson Boys College

Nelson

WHAT – Level 1 Composition and Solo Performance

Level 2 Instrumentation and Group

Level 3 Arranging and Composition

(Feel free to bring anything else that you feel you would like some feedback on)

EQUIPMENT PROVIDED –  Sibelius 6 (Please make sure you save your students work as a Sibelius 6 file if needed)

Data projector

P.A

C.D/DVD player

Photocopier

LUNCH – Northlands mall is just across the road and has a great food court

COST – Free

There will be another Cluster Meeting organised later in the year if you are unable to make this one.

Please don’t reply to this email or it will go to all CWSMTA members. If you can make the cluster then please respond by a quick email to Dave at: Ptd@papanui.school.nz

Thanks and look forward to seeing you then.

Dave Pitt

CWSMTA Chair