Day 8

I spoke to Mrs Frost about thementoring agreement and she gave me some paper saying:

Creative and media diploma

Extended project

- Gr. 5 tuba

- Recital to friends/family/music class/ brass group

- Take a leading role in schl. Brass group rehearsals – get group to perform in your recital & invite other soloists

- Get people on course involved in recording recital

Concert

1/. Date/time – Feb?

2/. Venue

3/. Programme - Who is playing – Write prog – accomp – timings. 40 mins

4/. Audience – invitations – posters – emails

5/. Costings - Raise money for brass grp music

6/. Sort out recording of it

7/. Get rehearsing – Weekly practices – Dress rehersal

Day 7

I have started writing the sheet which i was given. It is quite hard because i don't know what some of the questions are asking me. I will show Mrs Frost on Tuesday and she will tell me what she thinks. I have another sheet so she can write her own.

Day 6

Yesterday I asked if there were any guidelines regarding the criteria for this extended project. Mrs Price gave me the mentoring agreement sheet which needed to be filled out by both me and my mentor.

I shall give this form to Mrs Frost in next weeks lesson. We had flexi day this week so my tuba lesson was cancelled.

The questions on the sheet are :

1. What type of assistance does the partner want from the mentor?

2. What expectations does the mentor have of the partner?

3. What expectations does the partner have of the mentor?

4. How often will you meet?

weekly for tuba lessons. A proportion of the lesson to be spent on mentoring.

5. For how long?

30 minutes

6. Who will be responsible for scheduling our meetings?

n/a as its timetabled weekly but I am responsible for turning up to them

7. What will be the basic guidelines for your discussions?

8. If problems arise, how will they be resolved?

9. How will you know when the mentoring process has served its purpose and needs to be terminated?

10. We have agreed that our initial meetings will focus on these three topics:

a) Working towards grade 5 tuba

b) Organising a recital/concert to involve Alex and the school brass group soloists

c) To take a lead Role in brass group rehersals

11. Any additional areas/ issues you wish to discuss?

Partner signature....Alexander Cox... Date....20/10/2009..

Mentor signature.....Emma Frost...... Date....20/10/2009..

Day 5

Today I played my piece, Stomp Off and started off by humming the tune and then i played it backwards starting at the piano bit and up to the forte then the piano to forte to mezzo forte.

Then I played Mazurka ad hummed the tune again and then played it by playing the first line then then the second line then the first and second line and so on.

I looked for the pieces on you tube to see how they go but couldn't find it