E/CU3/6/1

File of correspondence including:

1978 - 1988

From: 1978 To: 1988

- invitation to Chief Education Officer to a performance by Bedford & District Middle Schools’ Music Association; - calendar for Bedfordshire events during European Music Year 1985; - catalogues of orchestral /ensemble and wind-band music held by Bedfordshire Education Service Music Centre Library; - a number of newsletters (1978-88) of Friends of Bedfordshire Youth Music; - notes on the structure of the peripatetic instrumental service; - letter asking for Local Education Authority (LEA) help in financing a trip to the county by Swedish musicians; - programme of Tuesday lunchtime concerts in St.Paul’s, Bedford; - LEA report - “Musical Ideas for Special Education - I”; - letter of complaint from the headmaster of Weatherfield Special School, Dunstable, regarding newspaper report of his pupils taking part in a music event, describing them as “cripples”; - Bedfordshire County Council press notice for Day of Music for Special Schools (not mentioning “cripples”); - Times Educational Supplement survey of school music, filled in for Bedfordshire; - reports to Primary School Teaching Staff Working Party on music teachers; - notes of a meeting between Chief Education Officer and Senior Music Staff regarding European Music Year 1985; - programme of events for International Youth Year 1985 and European Music Year 1985; - advertisement of publication of CDs of Bedfordshire Youth Opera Group production of Handel’s “Semele”, 1984; - letter discussing whether Sandy Scout & Guide Band should be VAT exempt; - letter regarding visit to EXPO ‘86 in Canada by Northfields Band Association and potential difficulties caused by industrial action by teachers; - letter from a parent and report by County Inspector of Music regarding unsatisfactory state of music teaching at Stockwood High School, Luton; - LEA letter advertising auditions for boy trebles; - report by County Music Therapist on her first year of appointment; - letter of complaint by St.Martin de Porres RC Junior School, Luton, regarding withdrawal of county peripatetic music teachers from the school; - letter to St.Martin de Porres RC Junior School declaring a complete lack of peripatetic teachers of guitar or recorder; - programme of Christmas Music Day 1987 for special schools.

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Chief Education Officer,
Bedfordshire Education Service,
Bedfordshire County Council

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