Music Workshops for Schools

Music Workshops for Schools

Skatz has been enthusiastically and colourfully educating in his own intuitive, child-led, calm and understanding way for over 6 years.

Most recently he has been specialising in individual and group sessions with Special Needs children, especially PMLD and Autistic students.

In his Music Workshops for Schools he uses music, poetry, comedy, storytelling and drama to encourage a creative and imaginative approach to any curriculum subject and has been booked extensively into schools across Leicestershire, Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire, working with teachers and children from Foundation stage all the way through to Secondary school age.

Skatz' speciality in his Music Workshops for Schools is to write unique and memorable Acoustic Music songs with Primary School children. These can be on any subject and help with writing skills and encourage enthusiasm for group working, focus and memory.

Skatz can be booked directly for Music Workshops in Schools via this site's home page. He has a current CRB full Enhanced Disclosure and £10m of Public Liaibility Insurance.

Creative Partnerships Music Workshops

For several years Skatz took part in the Creative Partnerships programme which linked schools with creative practitioners who run Music Workshops (like Skatz!) The projects aimed to help teachers and pupils to look at subjects in a more free, cross-curricular way and open their imaginations to what can be achieved through play and exploring ideas. 

Although funding has become a major issue recently for Creative Partnerships, Skatz is continuing his Music Workshops in Schools in order to further the imaginative working methods he has found successful.

Bamboozle Theatre Leicester

Skatz is also proud and happy to be a regular company member of Bamboozle (see Links page) as a Musician and Actor, taking part in week-long residencies in Special Schools doing creative activities with children and adults with special needs and learning difficulties and touring their shows 'Crazy Hair' and 'Soap & Suds'.

Skatz' Acoustic Music and songs plays a big part in the Multi-Sensory environments that Bamboozle create.

Babyfest - Music Workshops

In 2009 Skatz ran Music Workshops for 0-4 year olds at Leicester De Montfort Hall's first unique Babyfest. By popular demand he was back tin 2010 in charge of not only running more Music Workshops than before but also planning and booking an extended programme of Music Workshops in 2 marquees hosted by Skatz and 2 colleagues.

Festival Music Workshops

As well as running Music Workshops in Schools, Skatz has been found in the Kids Zone at 2 music festivals, The Big Session and Summer Sundae, both in the grounds of De Montfort Hall, Leicester.

The sessions involve making up Acoustic Music songs on the spot about what the kids are doing and saying, singing requests & nursery rhymes and generally fooling about in a creative way reacting to what's happening at the event.

Since appearing at Babyfest and other Festivals, Skatz has been in demand as one of Leicester's most unique Children's Party Entertainers. 

School Holiday Music Workshops

If your Primary School is looking for a musical way to keep your kids occupied during the holidays, Skatz can taylor Music Workshops to your requirements. Contact him and tell him what you need.

Workshops For Schools

WFS is an agency which books creative practitioners for school workshops and teacher inset sessions. Skatz has done several successful sessions through this agency. Their website details are on the Links page.

Skatz' Music Workshops in Schools are:

Child-led, free-thinking, imagination-opening, team-building, encouraging, enlivening, non-judgemental, fun, cross-curricular, inspiring for teachers, wide-ranging, confidence-building, fun, lovely to be part of, fun, and, erm... fun. And did I mention FUN!

He can help schools with anything from simple rhythm and song games all the way through to the process-focussed, theme-led imagination-fests that he has run especially in the Coventry, Warwickshire & Solihull Creative Partnerships schools, where the well established ethos of greater creativity through play has seeped through from their first Early Years Music Workshops up into the upper end of Primary Schools and now beyond into Secondary Schools.

Skatz' multitude of talents and skills, added to his boundless energy and enthusiasm for creativity and life in general, make his Music Workshops positive forces for improvement in writing, focus, team skills, awareness of the world around us and the inner world of the imagination, concentration, risk-taking, resourcefulness and confidence.