Greatly looking forward to this! Music teachers: there’s still time to sign up for this brilliant weekend of CPD and networking. Looking forward to seeing lots of you there.

Are you looking for #inspiration ?

Wanna meet other #musicteachers ?

Do you have questions, plans, desires and ideas?

Is it sometimes hard working in isolation in your school?

Then please join us for the 2024 Music Teachers Association Conference!

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Please #RT !

This is tremendous news. Congratulations to Paul McCreesh and the whole team.

We're looking forward to our first Choral Evensong of the Summer term on Thursday. All are welcome to attend. School Chapel, 4.15pm. Ripley St Thomas CE Academy The CofE in Lancashire (Blackburn Diocese) Lancaster Priory Blackburn Diocese Board of Education Bishop Philip Jill Duff

Lovely to be able to return to Lancaster Priory for this morning’s coffee concert. Great organ playing from Ian Pattinson, as ever, and super singing from the Occasional Singers. Especially good to hear Oliver Tarney | Composer’s lovely setting of ‘Christ be with me’. Bravo, all.

Hands up if you can't wait for camp this summer!
🗓 28th July - 4th August
🙋 For singers ages 9-17
📍 Takes place in Morland, a small village in Cumbria
Sign up: morland.org.uk
Any questions? Read more here: morland.org.uk/the-camp/

Join our flagship event, the MTA Conference 2024. Early-bird extended until 28th March but must end then; tickets from £90-£240. View the programme preview tinyurl.com/97mpp98r and then register for your place:
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Did someone say dam building? 🌊 Hear what Daniel (13) and Faith (9) love most about Morland! 🎶

Find out more: morland.org.uk

Following the success of our Carol Service in December, Vox Consort returns to the Lancaster area to lead reflective services for Holy Week. Do join us, if you are able to do so.

Here we go…

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After a very busy day of rehearsing and recording, our Ripley St Thomas CE Academy BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship for Mothering Sunday is ‘in the can’ - well done, all. Looking forward to hearing it! Thanks to our friends from Slyne-with-Hest for joining us - your singing was fantastic.

BBC Radio 4 are recording today in the school chapel. Do tune in at 8.10 on Sunday morning to hear us lead Sunday Worship on Mothering Sunday!
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Don Gillthorpe Ripley Music

Exciting times…

A beautiful Lenten Taizé service in the Ripley St Thomas CE Academy chapel this evening, with readings in different languages and chants led by the Chapel Choir sitting in amongst the congregation. A lovely moment of quiet in the midst of a busy week.

Brilliant stuff, as ever, from James Manwaring - reminding delegates that, even in one-person departments, they are not alone: Music Teachers Association are here to provide a supportive network.

Really inspiring talk from United Music, Don Gillthorpe, Loughborough Schools Music and James Manwaring at Music & Drama Education Expo today. Times are hard in music ed atm. But let’s keep shining a light on excellence that so many are still managing. It keeps us motivated and shows why others should invest.

En route to London for the Music & Drama Education Expo. Looking forward to sharing a platform with Music Teachers Association colleagues James Manwaring, Catherine Barker (@United_Music1), and Nicky Bouckley (@LboroSchMusic) to talk about the conditions needed to enable school music departments to thrive.

🎙️ 'I'm looking forward to seeing my friends.'

Listen to what Caleb (12) has to say about his experience at Morland!

#MorlandChoristersCamp

There’s still time for young singers to sign up for this year’s Morland Choristers' Camp. If any music teachers or choral directors want more information, please do get in touch. morland.org.uk

Just been invited to an event at ⁦Lancaster University⁩ celebrating the Lancaster music scene - a wonderful thing worth celebrating. What a shame that they’re missing the irony here, given their wilful destruction of the music dept; an act of artistic and intellectual vandalism.