Musical Moments for home educators, 5 - 11 year olds

Musical Moments returns to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum on Wednesday 18 November, the final session of a series run throughout the year for home-educated children aged 5 to 11. It's held in the Garden Meeting Room, and this one is led by Mike Marks of Sounds of Learning.

If you've been following along, this is the fourth and last workshop in the sequence. Each session focuses on a different instrument classification: idiophones, membranophones, aerophones and chordophones. By the time this one rolls around, the group will have worked through the whole set, with this final date rounding off the series.

Mike Marks is a music teacher with a background in primary education, and he runs workshops for all ages and abilities. He frames music as something embedded in every aspect of life, connecting it to maths, English, science, history, psychology, art and PE. His argument is that our connection to music, our confidence and our deepening understanding of it shape how we experience the world.

The sessions, called 'Music Together', are part of RAMM's wider programme of museum-led visits for home-educated children, which also takes in the worlds of the Ancient Egyptians and the Romans in Devon. This particular series has run across six dates throughout the year: 3 February, 3 March, 28 April, 23 June, 23 September and now 18 November. Tickets are £8.50, and accompanying adults go free.