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The Ark, Dublin
Date: 1 March 2025

Join musician Dafe Orugbo for a practical CPD workshop for teachers at the Ark, Dublin where you’ll explore how music can strengthen cultural bonds and help students feel more in control of their learning.

In this hands-on session, teachers and educators will pick up a variety of practical skills to connect with their students through the creation and listening of new music. By using music as a tool for class participation, you’ll learn how to tap into the cultural touchstones that matter most to your students, helping them feel seen and heard. Plus, it gives students the chance to take the lead in the classroom, which can be empowering—especially when they might otherwise feel out of their comfort zone. This approach lets kids engage in an experience that resonates with their interests, while giving teachers a chance to connect with their students in a shared way.

It’s an opportunity to rethink how we use music as a tool for creativity, connection, and agency in the classroom. Suitable for all levels of experience.

In this CPD workshop for teachers, you will;

Dates & Times: 
1 March, 10.30am – 12.30pm

Tickets: 
€25 / €20(for ArkEd Members)

For more information, see ark.ie/events/view/teachers-music-to-my-ears

Oide Music Sessions 2025
Various dates January – May 2025

Oide Music have released dates for a series of professional learning events for Music Teachers.

Senior Cycle Composing
This event offers Music teachers the opportunity to consider an integrated pedagogical approach to the teaching and learning of melody and harmony with their Leaving Certificate Music students.
In Person: 25 January, Dublin West E.C, 10.15am – 1pm
8 February, Limerick E.C, 10.15am – 1pm

ResponsibAI
Utilising the UNESCO AI curricula framework, this event interrogates practical pedagogical approaches for integrating AI responsibly and effectively in the Music classroom.
Online: 25 February, 7pm – 8pm

Effective Planning in the Second-Level Music Classroom
This interactive workshop, for all teachers of Music, shares learning about second-level Music curricula, and explores pedagogic strategies and planning considerations for effective learning and teaching.
Online: 11 March, 7pm – 8.30pm

There’s No Business Like Show Business Inside and Outside the Classroom
This workshop considers how the learning inherent in putting on a school musical can be relevant to the learning inside the Music classroom. Through a panel discussion, teachers share effective and efficient practices, learning and supports about producing a musical both inside and outside the classroom.
Online: 7 May, 7pm – 8.30pm

For more information and registration, click here: oide.ie/post-primary-news/music-sessions-2025/

The Dock

‘Songs of Ourselves’ was one of the recipient projects of the 2021 Arts in Education Portal Documentation Award, the aim of which is to support the development of documented outcomes from arts in education initiatives in Ireland. The award is part of the Arts in Education Portal Editorial Committee’s commitment to supporting and recognising the value of documentation and reflection as a key component within arts in education initiatives.

From November 2020 to June 2021, George Higgs was The Dock Composer in Residence at Scoil Mhuire, Carrick on Shannon for the project ‘Songs of Ourselves’, exploring communal song forms – e.g., work songs, anthems, canons, and call and response – with the ultimate aim of creating a new composition. Based on his earlier investigations into multisensory composition (The Sense Ensemble, 2017), George asked the students to think of a song not only as sound, but as a participatory activity for all the senses. Students were encouraged to invent gestures to accompany the performance of each song and draw pictures to reflect on the various themes. A Song Scrapbook was amassed from all the sessions, featuring the finished multisensory lyric ‘The Dream of the Knockabock’.

‘The Dream of the Knockabock’ was performed at The Dock in early June, 2022 by the Scoil Mhuire Choir and the Millennium Choir. The song was a twelve-minute ‘mobile composition for multisensory voices’ created was a rich pageant of sound, movement and was a spatial performance to remember.

It was a special event for all involved and a great achievement.

View the performance below

View here the Documentation Award Series Discussion ‘Songs of Ourselves’ with composer George Higgs, teacher Noelle Igoe and The Dock’s Visual Arts and Education Manager, Laura Mahon as part of the 2021 National Arts in Education Portal Virtual Conference.

 


!!!! CPD for Teachers at The Ark: Music to My Ears

The Ark, Dublin
Date: 1 March 2025

Join musician Dafe Orugbo for a practical CPD workshop for teachers at the Ark, Dublin where you’ll explore how music can strengthen cultural bonds and help students feel more in control of their learning.

In this hands-on session, teachers and educators will pick up a variety of practical skills to connect with their students through the creation and listening of new music. By using music as a tool for class participation, you’ll learn how to tap into the cultural touchstones that matter most to your students, helping them feel seen and heard. Plus, it gives students the chance to take the lead in the classroom, which can be empowering—especially when they might otherwise feel out of their comfort zone. This approach lets kids engage in an experience that resonates with their interests, while giving teachers a chance to connect with their students in a shared way.

It’s an opportunity to rethink how we use music as a tool for creativity, connection, and agency in the classroom. Suitable for all levels of experience.

In this CPD workshop for teachers, you will;

Dates & Times: 
1 March, 10.30am – 12.30pm

Tickets: 
€25 / €20(for ArkEd Members)

For more information, see ark.ie/events/view/teachers-music-to-my-ears

!!!! Opportunity for Teachers: Oide Music Sessions 2025

Oide Music Sessions 2025
Various dates January – May 2025

Oide Music have released dates for a series of professional learning events for Music Teachers.

Senior Cycle Composing
This event offers Music teachers the opportunity to consider an integrated pedagogical approach to the teaching and learning of melody and harmony with their Leaving Certificate Music students.
In Person: 25 January, Dublin West E.C, 10.15am – 1pm
8 February, Limerick E.C, 10.15am – 1pm

ResponsibAI
Utilising the UNESCO AI curricula framework, this event interrogates practical pedagogical approaches for integrating AI responsibly and effectively in the Music classroom.
Online: 25 February, 7pm – 8pm

Effective Planning in the Second-Level Music Classroom
This interactive workshop, for all teachers of Music, shares learning about second-level Music curricula, and explores pedagogic strategies and planning considerations for effective learning and teaching.
Online: 11 March, 7pm – 8.30pm

There’s No Business Like Show Business Inside and Outside the Classroom
This workshop considers how the learning inherent in putting on a school musical can be relevant to the learning inside the Music classroom. Through a panel discussion, teachers share effective and efficient practices, learning and supports about producing a musical both inside and outside the classroom.
Online: 7 May, 7pm – 8.30pm

For more information and registration, click here: oide.ie/post-primary-news/music-sessions-2025/

!!!! ‘Songs of Ourselves’ Live Performance at The Dock

The Dock

‘Songs of Ourselves’ was one of the recipient projects of the 2021 Arts in Education Portal Documentation Award, the aim of which is to support the development of documented outcomes from arts in education initiatives in Ireland. The award is part of the Arts in Education Portal Editorial Committee’s commitment to supporting and recognising the value of documentation and reflection as a key component within arts in education initiatives.

From November 2020 to June 2021, George Higgs was The Dock Composer in Residence at Scoil Mhuire, Carrick on Shannon for the project ‘Songs of Ourselves’, exploring communal song forms – e.g., work songs, anthems, canons, and call and response – with the ultimate aim of creating a new composition. Based on his earlier investigations into multisensory composition (The Sense Ensemble, 2017), George asked the students to think of a song not only as sound, but as a participatory activity for all the senses. Students were encouraged to invent gestures to accompany the performance of each song and draw pictures to reflect on the various themes. A Song Scrapbook was amassed from all the sessions, featuring the finished multisensory lyric ‘The Dream of the Knockabock’.

‘The Dream of the Knockabock’ was performed at The Dock in early June, 2022 by the Scoil Mhuire Choir and the Millennium Choir. The song was a twelve-minute ‘mobile composition for multisensory voices’ created was a rich pageant of sound, movement and was a spatial performance to remember.

It was a special event for all involved and a great achievement.

View the performance below

View here the Documentation Award Series Discussion ‘Songs of Ourselves’ with composer George Higgs, teacher Noelle Igoe and The Dock’s Visual Arts and Education Manager, Laura Mahon as part of the 2021 National Arts in Education Portal Virtual Conference.