The Music Service is the lead organisation for the Birmingham Music Education Partnership which deploys the central government funding to extend and coordinate music education provision for all reporting to Arts Council England.
Find out more about the BMEP here.
We are proud to partner with Mondelez International to provide the Health for Life programme to Nursery, Primary and Secondary schools in Birmingham.
The Health for Life programme promotes a proactive approach to developing a healthy lifestyle, focusing on growing food, physical activity, cooking skills and healthy eating.
Around 90,000 adults and children have been reached by the programme.
Find out more about the Health for Life programme here.
The Institute of Leadership and Management partners with us to deliver our head teacher leadership and management training.
At Services For Education, we know that most head teachers are already well-versed in high-quality teaching, learning and assessment but there may be business aspects of Headship that they find challenging. Our course develops skills like finance, legal and facilities management.
Find out more about the Head Teacher courses, here.
Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce support our Central Ensembles. These are free and involve intermediate to advanced musicians who rehearse on a weekly basis, are led by trained conductors and perform at least 3 concerts a year, including one at the Symphony Hall and one at the Royal Birmingham Birmingham Conservatoire.
Find out more about our Ensembles here.
Or email music@servicesforeducation.co.uk
Services For Education has been an Every Child Counts provider in partnership with Edge Hill University since 2012. We aim to help schools to raise achievement for all pupils through evidence based interventions in English and Maths.
This programme has now helped over 6,000 schools nationally to support more than 150,000 children to overcome difficulties in literacy and mathematics.
Find out more about our Interventions here.
We have a well-established partnership with Birmingham City council.
They commission us to deliver assessment and moderation support for schools across Birmingham and facilitate the work of SACRE for schools.
We are also the appropriate body for NQTs in Birmingham, on their behalf.
Find out more about NQT support here.
Services For Education are proud to partner with the Birmingham Education Partnership and Link2ICT to provide a variety of complimenting services, networking events, conferences, and courses across Birmingham.
To find out more, email andrew.cooper@servicesforeducation.co.uk
Birmingham SACRE determines how local authority schools in the City teach Religious Education and deliver Collective Worship. It comprises four committees representing: the Church of England, all other faith groups, teacher professional associations and members of the local authority.
All representatives are nominated annually. SFE facilitates and supports SACRE meetings and provides advisory support and guidance.
Simone Whitehouse is the Religious Education and Collective Worship adviser to Birmingham schools and Birmingham SACRE.
To find out more, email natasha.lawson-hollingsworth@servicesforeducation.co.uk
Services For Education is teaming up with Independent Thinking who calls itself ‘an education company’, one that specialises in taking people’s brain for a walk. Made up of a network of extraordinary speakers, writers and educational practitioners, for 25 years Independent Thinking has been showing schools across the UK and further afield that, when it comes to bringing the best out of the whole school community, there is always another way.
Through INSET, twilights, conferences, keynotes, workshops for students, for parents, for governors, by working in the classroom with teachers, online and through their many award-winning books, Independent Thinking Associates seek to inspire, inform, entertain, educate and reassure schools that putting the child at the heart of things is what matters the most.
To find out more, email sarah.marshall@servicesforeducation.co.uk
Music Mark is a membership organisation, subject association and charity. Our membership consists of Music Education Services and Hubs, their teaching and support teams; schools; individuals; NYMOS; HE/FE bodies; Hub and Corporate Partners.
On behalf of our members, partners and the wider sector, Music Mark lobbies for, and champions, a government supported, high quality, music education provision for all school aged children and young people which addresses diversity, equality and inclusion at its core.
Services For Education are proud to partner with the Birmingham Education Partnership and Link2ICT to provide a variety of complimenting services, networking events, conferences, and courses across Birmingham.
To find out more, email martyn.collin@servicesforeducation.co.uk
