Lindsay Ibbotson

First Thing Music – Project Lead, having led a randomised control trial, funded in 2018/19 by the Education Endowment Foundation and the Royal Society for the Arts, (that found that daily music had an impact on literacy, as well as confidence and behaviour), Lindsay is currently developing effective partnerships with Music Services for delivering foundation level music CPD for non-specialist primary teachers – First Thing Music Online – as well as new models of Initial Teacher Training.

Honorary Research Fellow – Durham University.

Appeared on BBC Teach ‘Bring the Noise’ – “How do I teach music if I’m not a musician?”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/how-do-i-teach-music-live/zv8cvk7

Music teacher and Director of a Farmer’s Choir in North Yorkshire.