Autumn leaves
Autumn is well & truly here and I was reminded that I hadn’t posted a blog since June! Summer term ended very positively with the first teacher training day. It went extremely well and I am going to be announcing dates for another soon. As a result of the June event, we have new teachers starting cello and violinbabies in their areas. Do check out the violinbabies website for news of who they are.
We flew off to Orkney for the summer, to the place where my good husband was born. Saw lots of neolithic sites, beautiful sunsets and ate lashings of haggis! The island of Hoy was stunning – I really didn’t want to leave.
Two days after my return I went to Aberdeen to introduce cello & violinbabies to the ESTA centre there. I had a great time: my string teaching colleagues there were warm, welcoming and very open to my ideas – feedback was really encouraging.
Violinbabies has received a favourable review in the latest edition of ‘News & Views’ (ESTA’s journal) and there is a wonderful article in this month’s ‘Music Teacher’ magazine about Exeter Young Strings, who are using cello & violinbabies as the core material in their programme. I hope to have both articles on the web soon……………