West Yorkshire Music Hub – Lead Schools Required!

The West Yorkshire Music Hub seek to recruit and appoint Lead Schools for our music hub area in response to the National Plan for Music Education (NPME).

What Is A Lead School?

The core purpose of a Lead School, as set out within the NPME, is to champion music education, developing and nurturing local school relationships and networks as part of and on behalf of the Hub.

Benefits of becoming a Lead School

In addition to playing a key role in improving music education and opportunities across our Music Hub area, we also hope that Lead Schools will find the role to be beneficial for their own school.

Benefits will include:

• Professional development opportunity for school colleagues

• Higher level professional development for music leaders and the opportunity to work with a wider range of music professionals and leaders

• Opportunity to encourage excellence in local music education and influence policies

• Contribute to music hub advisory board meetings and shape future strategic plans

• Opportunity to collaborate with partner schools and share best practice

• Opportunity to play a key role in WYMH CPD

• Use of WYMH branding and links to positive communications

• Recognised as an advocate for music and the arts and youth voice

Criteria

Please take time to read through the necessary requirements and criteria as set out in the second part of the application document. The application is designed to help you to evaluate your own strengths and indicate how they might support the West Yorkshire Music Hub in the newly appointed Lead Schools role to begin in April 2025. The first part of this document gives further information about the Lead School programme, including a timeline, renumeration and rationale.

Application Form

Download the application for by clicking the link below

WYMH-Lead-School-Application-Spring-2025

Deadline

Please email your completed form to wymh@bradford.gov.uk by Wednesday 26^th February 4pm.

Please direct any specific questions or queries to Phil Needham pneedham@wakefield.gov.uk