Children’s Music Workshop

Established in 1989, Children’s Music Workshop continues to link professional artists with primary schools to run creative music programmes drawing on a range of musical styles from opera to jazz.

CMW’s work aims to:

develop children’s confidence
build their communication skills
extend their citizenship skills
encourage schools to develop creativity as a central educational strategy

For more information on any of the projects below or a bespoke music project for your school please contact anna.west@pocketopera.co.uk

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(See Current Projects for more details)

National Portrait Gallery

May 2008 & September 2008

One-day creative composition and lyric–writing workshops at the National Portrait Gallery.

Stories that Sing

2008/09

A Year 3 & 4 music and composition project based in east London. Running for the school year, this theme-adaptable project encourages enthusiasm for literacy and language and the expression of ideas and feelings in English.

Opera Project

2008/09

A one-term, project–based in East London for Year 5 & 6 children, using an abridged, interactive theatre performance of a popular opera, followed by in-school workshops to inspire the creation and performance of children’s own operas. Together with Stories that Sing it forms a whole school, cross-year project.