Victoria Jaquiss
My blogs
- Victoria Jaquiss: Music Educator Steelband Leader
- Letter to Carriacou by Victoria Jaquiss
- Victoria Jaquiss: Hyde Park, Leeds and the Wider World
- Victoria Jaquiss: Letter to Singapore
- Victoria Jaquiss, Leeds Schools Campaigner
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | teacher, musician, writer |
| Location | Hyde Park, Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Leeds music teacher and steel band leader [Foxwood Steel, Leeds Silver Steel Sparrows, East Steel, [and till They closed the school] Royal Park Steel Pandas]; writer [Including SEN in the Curriculum: Music], [Foxwood Songsheets], Russian graduate [Liverpool Uni], PGCE English [Leeds Uni]. Previously governor briefly at Foxwood School, parent-governor for at Royal Park Primary School and City of Leeds School [till ousted in IEB coup]. Member of the National Union of Teachers [NUT], the Musicians' Union [MU], Royal Society of Arts [RSA], National Association of Music Educators [NAME], Yorkshire Association for Music for Music For Special Needs [YAMSEN:SpeciallyMusic], West Yorkshire Steel Pan Educators'Association [WYSPeA], the Anti-Academies Alliance [AAA]and the Leeds Schools Together [LST], National Trust, Hyde Park Nearside Allotments Association. |
| Interests | work, family, allotment |
| Favorite Movies | bend it Like Beckham, Some Like It Hot, All About Eve, Shawshank Redemption, [radio] The Archers, Last Word, Blades of Glory |
| Favorite Music | Some top tunes: Fingal's Cave, Carmen Jones, Swan Lake, Elecricity [OMD], Dancing Queen, Perfect Day, Of course I'm Lying [Yello], Losing My religion [REM], Celluloid Heroes [Kinks], Patti Smith, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, that bit from Romeo and Juliet [Prokofiev], Stargazin by Rainbow, Gymnopedie No 1 [Satie], anything by Phillip Glass |
| Favorite Books | Fathers and Sons [Turgenev], Ragged Trousered Philanthropists [Tressell], Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, Middlemarch |