Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) His tireless campaigning against poverty, and for opportunity and education, changed the life of so many - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) They spent months in denial, yet this week the Department for Education finally admitted what many parents - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) But education is also key to tackling knife crime, which is why I am working with Roger Hirst and with - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) Tonight is the annual awards of the Music Producers Guild. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) The next item of business is portfolio questions on education and skills. - Speech Link
2: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) unfair instrumental music tuition charges across the country. - Speech Link
3: Smith, Liz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) groups and music camps, including those that cater for special needs. - Speech Link
4: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) The music teachers on the ground are responding with passion, music education is flourishing”.He said - Speech Link
5: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) engage with education practitioners to support and inspire young people into music careers? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) There is a richness of immense value to musical exchanges, as music is a language that knows no geographical - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) That includes the food, alluded to by the noble Earl, Lord Effingham, and indeed the music, alluded to - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Whether it is for languages, music, education, understanding or just plain old-fashioned friendship, - Speech Link
Found: together) comprises a public service for the dissemination of information and for the provision of education
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure every (a) primary and (b) secondary pupil in England can visit the theatre at least once in their school career.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
All state-funded schools should teach a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes pupils' cultural development. The best schools combine creative subjects with core subjects, and the department is committed to ensuring that all pupils have access to both.
Cultural education is therefore integral to a high-quality education. Alongside drama as part of the English curriculum and dance as part of the physical education curriculum, music and art and design, remain important pillars of the knowledge-rich National Curriculum.
Drama is not an individual subject within the English National Curriculum, but it is an important part of a pupil’s school experience. The main introduction of drama to the primary programmes of study details the type of drama opportunities pupils should be given and acknowledges the artistic practice of drama. Teachers will use their professional judgement as to how and when such opportunities are created.
On 10 February 2017, the department announced an update to the content for the GCSE in drama and the A level in drama and theatre studies to specify that all pupils will now have the entitlement to experience live theatre, reaffirming the government’s commitment to providing pupils with an enriching arts education.
A parent’s income should not be a barrier to a pupil participating in a school trip. Schools may not charge for school trips that take place during school hours, or which take place outside school hours but are part of the National Curriculum, part of religious education, or part of the syllabus for a public exam that the pupil is being prepared for at the school. Parents can be asked for contributions towards the cost of a trip, but schools must make clear that contributions are voluntary. The published advice, ‘Charging for School Activities’, is clear that no pupil should be excluded from an activity simply because their parents are unwilling or unable to pay. The advice can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706830/Charging_for_school_activities.pdf.
Finally, pupil premium funding will rise to over £2.9 billion in the 2024/25 academic year. The increase will ensure that this targeted funding continues to help schools to support the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils. As set out in the menu of approaches, schools are able to use pupil premium to fund extracurricular activities, including school trips to theatres.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to ensure that pupils from low income families are able to participate in school visits to theatres.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
All state-funded schools should teach a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes pupils' cultural development. The best schools combine creative subjects with core subjects, and the department is committed to ensuring that all pupils have access to both.
Cultural education is therefore integral to a high-quality education. Alongside drama as part of the English curriculum and dance as part of the physical education curriculum, music and art and design, remain important pillars of the knowledge-rich National Curriculum.
Drama is not an individual subject within the English National Curriculum, but it is an important part of a pupil’s school experience. The main introduction of drama to the primary programmes of study details the type of drama opportunities pupils should be given and acknowledges the artistic practice of drama. Teachers will use their professional judgement as to how and when such opportunities are created.
On 10 February 2017, the department announced an update to the content for the GCSE in drama and the A level in drama and theatre studies to specify that all pupils will now have the entitlement to experience live theatre, reaffirming the government’s commitment to providing pupils with an enriching arts education.
A parent’s income should not be a barrier to a pupil participating in a school trip. Schools may not charge for school trips that take place during school hours, or which take place outside school hours but are part of the National Curriculum, part of religious education, or part of the syllabus for a public exam that the pupil is being prepared for at the school. Parents can be asked for contributions towards the cost of a trip, but schools must make clear that contributions are voluntary. The published advice, ‘Charging for School Activities’, is clear that no pupil should be excluded from an activity simply because their parents are unwilling or unable to pay. The advice can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706830/Charging_for_school_activities.pdf.
Finally, pupil premium funding will rise to over £2.9 billion in the 2024/25 academic year. The increase will ensure that this targeted funding continues to help schools to support the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils. As set out in the menu of approaches, schools are able to use pupil premium to fund extracurricular activities, including school trips to theatres.
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Misogyny in musicFound: When are we going to see the new condition of registration for higher education settings that is aimed
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Energy Security and Net Zero CommitteeFound: would take up your “thin conductor” analogy, you are conducting this massive masterpiece of energy music
Found: 1 Cross-Party Group on Music 24 April, 2024. 6pm.
Mentions:
1: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) In recent years, in particular, in Dumfries and Galloway, we have lost a number of major music festivals - Speech Link
2: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) for the sustainability of our heritage assets.I highlight that the Minister for Higher and Further Education - Speech Link