Free Music Festival events for schools
A fantastic summer term treat for all Gloucestershire school-children! The Free for Schools scheme is part of the HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival and makes free tickets available to schools for all Music Festival concerts.
Time Will Tell
Time Will Tell is our major education project in association with BBC Outreach for the 60th The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Pupils from six schools will each write a short story to celebrate one of the six decades of the Festival. Leading author Philip Ardagh will help the children write their stories, and actor and director Fiona Ross will shape the stories for the stage.
Time Will Tell will be performed at Cheltenham Town Hall on 12 October.
Jazz It Up!
We’ll be posting our Jazz It Up! 2009 photos and audio shortly, in the meantime jump back to 2008 with the video archive of our 007 Bond themed Jazz special as twelve brilliant school bands perform on stage.
more Jazz It Up! →
Time To Sing 2008
Time to Sing was produced by the Cheltenham Festivals education team as part of Cheltenham Music Festival 2008.
watch Time To Sing 2008 →
Gamelan
A gamelan (translated as ‘hit with a hammer’) is an ensemble of percussion instruments on which the traditional music of Java and Bali is played.
Many aspects of playing the gamelan match targets within the music curriculum, the most obvious being playing by ear and from memory, learning about pitch, dynamics and tempo, and taking part in group performances. As a result the Cheltenham Gamelan is becoming an increasingly popular resource for all key stages in schools.
read about the Gamelan →
