#124

This seems completely mad to me, we had a nativity when I was in reception but from then on there were no plays or school performances, some kids were in teenage bands and would use the practice rooms but not perform for people. Going to do a poll because I’m interested in seeing how common it is:

  • I went to a school in the UK and the school would have students perform in plays and music shows.
  • This isn’t the case

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#125

My employer basically makes money from the fact that schools in Austria and Germany don’t have much in the way of drama or school plays in the curriculum. Often they have quite a nice stage etc though. Anything like music, theatre etc is done via council subsidised after school clubs, which sometimes share premises with a local school.

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#126

Mixed school and no one played instruments as far as I can recall, usually was the music teacher on the piano or CD player

#127

girls are also allowed to play violin/cello don’t forget.

#128

Or the flute.

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#129

My music education was terrible.
At primary it was all singing and maybe some triangles/simple percussion things.

Don’t remember ever getting taught any musical notation at any point.
At secondary it was Casio keyboards and DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ yeahhhh buttons on repeat for the lesson and obviously learning about the gamelan without ever practising or getting to use any instruments.

We didn’t have any productions or shows either, not that I would have done any as that sort of thing would have definitely got you mercilessly bullied

We did end of year productions at KS2 and nativity but they were acting/dancing and singing with no instruments

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#130

Sort of somewhere in the middle I think. In primary school we did Nativity and end of year shows and all that stuff, but it was only the drama club and the school orchestra who did that stuff in secondary school. There were never any school shows involving “contemporary” music.

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#131

I have a video of me playing Tony in West Side Story.

#133

I think this is a good one for a whole thread. I’m gonna make it

#134

Interesting, I know hardly anything about the school system, I assume councils don’t have the as much impact in the UK. Our High School changed to a Technology College so I guess they put more of their budget on sciences.

#135

I had a similar experience think they taught us some musical notation but the only kids who played instruments were the ones who had paid lessons outside of school and there wasn’t many. Remember spending a lot of time with Dance Ejay.

#136

My school was a technology college too, but it was quite arty too, they spent some of the extra cash on DT materials/equipment and setting up a music tech room with some keyboards and Cubase.

Kent County Council was also very big on subsidising music at the time- cheap lessons, could borrow council instruments to learn on etc

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#137

fair fucks to the lad for giving it a go

#139

its taken 120+ posts but I can finally relate to some people :laughing:

my school didnt do jack shit. nobody played instruments really either. In my year group 1 person played acoustic guitar, 2 played piano - all privately educated. :man_shrugging:

Maybe my school WAS fucking garbage after all :thinking:

#140

Would’ve preferred this. I did music A level and had to spend years 7-9 with the DJ button kids.

#142

I have a terrible video somewhere of me performing ‘boogie woogie bugle boy of company B’ with the female barbershop quartet (I was the bugle boy). The whole thing was underehearsed and the four girls in the barbershop quartet did not like me. Very awkward and awful

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#143

Going to try put some of this on YouTube