BRIT links up with Harris Academy for music

As part of our ongoing and very successful relationship with Harris Academy (formerly Stanley Tech), Leading Edge manager Conor Doherty was visited by music teacher Kwadjo Amponsen and his colleagues from Harris Academy. They worked on ways of delivering the BTEC 1^st Certificate in Music which Harris have started to deliver this year for the first time. The music department here at the BRIT school has been teaching it for some years and it forms the basis of the Key Stage 4 strand course.

Conor says "This follows on from a meeting I had last summer where I went over the basic framework of the qualification with Kwadjo. We looked at assignments and talked though some possible ways of delivering the practical and academic parts of the course. The meeting had a very positive outcome with some helpful ideas put forward. Personally, from an educational point of view I found it very interesting."

We also discussed the possibilities of doing more practical work with Harris students, similar to last year. We are hoping to facilitate this before the end of the year.