AMP moves into new boroughs
We are please to announce our first schools in Camden, Islington and Haringey as part of our 2013-14 schools programme. We will be working with Carlton Primary (Camden), St. John’s, Highbury Vale (Islington) and Seven Sisters Primary (Haringey), along with Rushmore, St. Matthias, Nightingale, Orchard, Shacklewell, Southwold and Springfield primary schools in Hackney and Columbia and Harry Gosling Primary schools in Tower Hamlets, as well as Stormont House Special School in Hackney.
Institute of Education Evaluation Launch
Professor Susan Hallam of The Institute of Education has completed an evaluation of Apollo Music Projects, which will be launched at a special event at Shoreditch Town Hall on 21 January. Copies of this excellent report will be available at the event, and we will publish the report online after the launch. Please contact us for more information.
July 2013 Schools Concert at Hackney Empire
The 2013 Schools concert at Hackney Empire took place on Wednesday 3 July 11.30-12.30. The programme included Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Brahms’ 4th Symphony, 1st and 4th movements. The concert was attended by 560 children from the schools taking part in the 2012-13 programme in Hackney and Tower Hamlets: Orchard, St. Monica’s, Southwold, Shacklewell, Rushmore, St. Matthias, Nightingale, Harry Gosling and Columbia primary schools, and Stormont House Special school.
Schools programme 2012-13 success
The Apollo programme in nine primary schools in Hackney and Tower Hamlets was a great success. New schools taking part were Shacklewell and Southwold Primary Schools, and we were pleased to be working again with children in Rushmore, Nightingale, Orchard, St. Monica’s, St. Matthias, Columbia and Harry Gosling Primary Schools. All of the children were a pleasure to work with, and we shared in thier delight as they experienced live music in the classroom, at Shoreditch Town Hall and Hackney Empire.