05/02/2026
🎶 HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF MUSIC EDUCATION 🎶
Octagon Music Hub is inviting children and young people, parents and carers, schools and education settings, music educators, organisations and partners across Dorset and Somerset to share their views.
We’re running a set of short surveys to help us understand:
🎵 what’s working well
🚧 where there are gaps or barriers
📈 how music education can be strengthened locally
Your feedback will directly inform future priorities, partnership working and commissioning decisions.
👇 Find the right survey for you via: https://octagonmusichub.org.uk/have-your-say/
Thank you for helping shape the future of music education across the region.
03/02/2026
🎶 Free music education resource for KS2 🎶
We’re sharing this on behalf of colleagues at the University of Southampton Department of Music, who have recently launched a brand new free music education resource.
Pythagoras’ Workshops Toolkit is designed for Key Stage 2 (ages 7–11) and supports creative learning through:
• 🎼 composing with graphic scores
• 🎭 conducting, explored through music and puppetry activities
The toolkit includes a wide range of practical workshop and teaching activities, with accompanying online videos, and can be used flexibly in classroom or workshop settings.
🔗 Free to download (short sign-up required):
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/pythagoras-toolkit
This may be particularly useful for primary teachers, music educators and practitioners looking for creative approaches to composition and ensemble leadership.
If you have any questions about the resource, the project team can be contacted directly - see poster for email.
29/01/2026
🥁 We’re supporting an incredible night of live music in Taunton!
The amazing Dhol Foundation are coming to Tacchi Morris Arts Centre on 13th February 2026, presented by 🎶
Expect powerful rhythms, high-energy performance and a night that will definitely get you moving – dancing shoes a must!
📍 Tacchi Morris Arts Centre, Taunton
🕖 Doors open 7pm
🎟️ Advance tickets £12 | OTD £16 | Concessions £14
We’re proud to be supporting opportunities like this that bring world-class music to local audiences and celebrate global musical traditions.
