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When I am repairing clock movements, digital literacies play a major part in calculating which gears mesh together. I use internet web searches for technical information and emails to communicate with clock makers. I use online payments for goods required to repair movements and bid on online auctions for parts.
When possible, I like face to face communications/dialog with clock repairer specialists so we can discuss technical issues and help with my continuous development as I am an amateur.
Timings and clock mechanism and pendulum set up require close attention to numeric settings.

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I have been a member of the Christchurch Priory Choir for over ten years and sing in the position of 'First Decani Bass'. I normally sing at two musical services every Sunday throughout the year and at special times, such as Easter and Christmas. The choir also goes on European tours to places such as Venice and Brussels. Many literacy practices are involved within the choir in different areas of the musical and social practices.

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In order for me to rebuild and repair my moped, I used online services and digital manuals to guide me through the process. I had to select the correct equipment and sizes of tools. I had to look at the budgeting costs for parts and work out with numeracies the statistics on running costs, bike vs car over 12 months.
I used digital and verbal communications via phone, text, emails and eBay to agree costings with the mechanic on MOT repairs.

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Literacies in Conducting a Choir and Organ

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Literacies in Conducting a Choir and Organ

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I am second from the right, 'Mr Simon Earl' director of music conducting 4 beat intro. Permission for reproduction given by Christchurch Priory Choir. (2022).

I investigated how music influences learning in respect to three different approaches using reference from Reyna G, Fehd H, McCandliss B. (2015.)
1. Arousal-mood-hypothesis indicates that music (singing or listening) can potentially benefit learning outcomes.
Musical training, singing or otherwise transfers a direct benefit to both children and adults in their development of general day to day literacy skills (reading and writing).
2. All information within a learning situation including learning material (music score), task (actually conducting) and context factors (controlling speed and volume) needs to be processed within our working memory.
3. Learning outcomes, otherwise what is at the end of the rainbow!
The difference between levels of learning outcomes, like recall or comprehension (e.g., B Bloom. (1956) are typically necessary so as to remember and understand the learning content.

Conducting a choir/organ or orchestra introduces the literacies as mentioned and include both social and civic literacies in emotions and feelings with working alongside others feeling valued and developing respect for all parts of the choir. Singing in the choir necessarily involves community engagement. Both these things are necessary concurrent processes.
The experience of singers in how to read and write allows the singer to become both a consumer and producer, so as to be able to fully participate in the choirs overall musical development i.e. the production of a beautiful sound and being able to read and pronounce words in English, German and Latin.

Further research has led me to an interesting research paper from the  Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive which states,
"The term literacy practice is understood to mean the ways in which people use written language in their everyday lives. These practices involve values, attitudes, feelings and social relationships (Street, 1993, 12) and so cannot be simply defined as observable behaviours. They are in the simplest sense 'what people do with literacy' (Barton, Hamilton and Ivanic, 2000, 7) and are internal to individuals whilst at the same time being social processes that connect people with one another".

Images and video of Christchurch Priory taken by Matthew Constable 2022, permission Simon Earl, Director of music

Reference :
Reyna G, Fehd H, McCandliss B. (2015.) Fontiers in psychology 6 1777
Does Music Training Enhance Literacy Skills? A Meta-Analysis - PMC (nih.gov)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Simply Psychology

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow
Dr.McLeod S, (2007), )updated April 04, 2022)

Luther College
Learning Literacies through Music
Tarbert. K. (2012)

EDWARDS. M. (2012)  Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/5245/

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Christchurch Priory Literacies for Learning 

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I considered three areas of activity, within my everyday life to explain how and why I use literacies, numeracy and digital literacy.
Out of these three, I decided to chose singing in the Priory Choir. Why?
I found on reflection this area of most interest due to how these literacies are embedded in how I sing, make music and how I socially interact within the choir.

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Available via google search open source (2022)

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C M Widor. (1845-1937) Organ Music Score.

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C M Widor. (1845-1937) Organ Music Score.

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Me Singing in the Miserere Cords, Christchurch Priory (2022)

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Me Singing in the Miserere Cords, Christchurch Priory (2022)

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Digital Literacy - VVnT Foundation

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The Digital Literacy Program begins by mobilizing and orienting key stakeholders and the larger community. The students who show interest in enrolling for this program undergo counselling. The parents of these students are counselled as well and are informed about the program benefits.

The course duration is 15 days and covers topics ranging from Soft Skills, Time Management, Communication Styles and technical trainings.

Students who undergo The Digital Literacy Training Program become tech-savvy and are given basic computer training, introduction to digital devices, operating digital devices, introduction to the Internet, communications using the Internet and applications of the Internet.

These literacy program can be done at VVnT Centers, NGO Partner offices, Corporates and through On-line Sessions.

Digital Literacy Schedule :

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The Digital Literacy Program begins by mobilizing and orienting key stakeholders and the larger community. The students who show interest in enrolling for this program undergo counselling. The parents of these students are counselled as well and are informed about the program benefits.

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Christchurch Priory Choir Website - Digital Communication.

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Christchurch Priory Choir Website - Digital Communication.

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Mr Simon Earl playing 'Widor Toccata' No5 

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Mr Simon Earl playing 'Widor Toccata' No5 

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The end chord of this organ piece by Widor, numerically has 4 beats, the notation in the music shows a 'Pause' (see illustration below), which designates an unspecific amount of time the chord can be played for. In discussions with Mr Earl, the amount of time this last chord is played can be affected by mood, feelings (Maslow. A. 1943), the acoustics of the building and even the organ itself, such as the quality of the sounds it can make. It is at this point numeracy falls away to musical interpretation.
In conclusion, the length of last chord in time will always be different, but the numerical part will always remain the same.
The final chord on the attached video clip ended after 8 seconds.
This conclusion has now left Mr Earl reflecting himself on his own literacy practices and both how and why he interprets music (playing the organ) the way he does.

Reference -
(Maslow. A. 1943)
https://www.oxford-royale.com/royale.com)

Permission given to reproduce this video by Mr Simon Earl, director of music and master organist, Christchurch Priory (2022).

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From an early age, choir members learn to use and develop their numeracy in music. Calculations, measurements and estimations are all skills which are required to make sense of musical notation.
A good example of this is, a singer may draw on previous knowledge around fractions, halves and quartering, imagining the whole. For an illustration, see below. This helps to read music notations. Extending numeracy, (understanding, fluency and problem solving)

maybe considered when structure of the music such as pitch, intervals, scales, octaves, tuning etc.

Number patterns and algebraic thinking.

During the Covid pandemic, we became very familiar with seeing graphs and charts detailing patterns and statistics in numeracies, showing increases and decreases in Covid rates. In music the combination of the patterns and shapes of the notes
also form a graph or sine wave which can be followed.
The below tabled illustration details the different shapes of musical notes representing different numerical time values (half beat and quarter beat).

For some people, reading music is made more complicated due to a condition know as 'musical dyslexia'.
As Mishra. J. (2015) writes in her research paper,

"The research starts to imply how a specifically musical dyslexia could occur. This deficit may be centred on pitch or musical symbols or both. No conclusive case of musical dyslexia has yet been reported and efforts to determine the effects of dyslexia on reading musical notation have been inconclusive. although this argument is not backed by the findings of, Rolka. EJ. and Silverman. M.J. (2015), who carried out a systematic review of music and dyslexia and found that music training is considered to function as a remediation tool to improve literacy skills for children with dyslexia.

Children in western cultures are taught to read text, but not always taught to read music. Even when they are, inabilities to read music are not generally treated as a serious concern. Many gifted musicians are able to function at a professional level purely learning music by ear. Among musicians, there is a wide range of music reading proficiencies. This is especially apparent with sight reading (the first performance of a notated piece). Identifying musical dyslexia could help explain why some musicians read well and others don’t".

How can some sing and play a music instrument if they are unable to read music? I looked at what is important and relevant and enjoyable, and refer to 'Street maths'.
Nunes. T. and Carraher. D. (1985) Article in British journal of Developmental Psychology - March 1985.
When out of the educational setting, learners will find a way to compensate for their lack or inability to use school taught numeracies vs  convenient grouping in natural settings.

Reference :
Mishra. J. (2015) Associate Professor, Music Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
How the brain reads music: the evidence for musical dyslexia (theconversation.com)

Rolka. EJ. and Silverman. M.J. (2015)
A systematic review of music and dyslexia - ScienceDirect

Law. J. (2018) The University of Newcastle, Australia, numeracy in Authentic Contexts.

BBC. (2022). Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in my area? - BBC News

Nunes. T. and Carraher. D. (1985) Article in British journal of Developmental Psychology - March 1985.

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Digital and computer technology has become increasingly common place over the past decade and this has meant that how we communicate with each other has had to evolve. Within the Priory Church and choir, we use emails and Facebook to communicate as well as the main Priory web page (Parish of Christchurch, Dorset. Diocese of Winchester. (christchurchpriory.org))
As you can see from the above picture from the website, we are advertising via digital literacies our Music and Arts Festival this year. During two European tours, we used Facebook as a digital platform to keep family, friends and the wider public informed of our day to day adventures, even using mobile telephone communication to be interviewed in Europe on a local radio station being broadcast live.

I utilise both emails and What's app messaging in order to keep in touch with fellow choir members and my music director. What is interesting, is that the choir is almost a 50/50 spit between older gents and young children, but all despite age use digital literacies to communicate. During the Covid lock down, I joined online virtual singing sessions with the choir via the platform 'Zoom' and our Sunday morning services are now broadcasted live via YouTube.

So what is Digital Literacy ?
McCarthy. O. (2022) says,

"What is digital literacy? The digital literacy definition or digital literacy meaning is the ability to use, access, evaluate, and communicate through digital platforms. Digital platforms refer to the internet and all the devices that allow a person to access the internet. Sometimes digital literacy may be referred to as cyber literacy, however, digital literacy is a term that is used more broadly. A digitally literate person is able to effectively use technology to find information, evaluate the information, and bring the information into their physical life. They can also communicate across digital platforms, such as through email, and within programs, such as spreadsheets and manuscript writing, as well as a myriad of apps".

Reference :
McCarthy. O. (2022) Study.com

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Welcome to our parish website. There has been a church on the site of Christchurch Priory for over 1300 years, from the first Saxon building to the glorious Priory Church we see today.

Throughout the centuries, the worship of God, through Jesus Christ his Son and inspired by the Holy Spirit, has been at the heart of the Priory's life and has fuelled its service to the local community. Very rarely has the voice of praise been stilled within these walls: once during the reign of King John, when the country was under Papal censure; once, at least, because of bubonic plague; and this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Our prayer and worship continues, but in new ways.

Services now take place with Covid-safe measures in place and the Sunday morning 10am Eucharist from the Priory will be live streamed. We also continue to meet online for Morning Prayer daily (except Sundays). For full details, see the panel on this page.

The Priory Church is now open for visitors as well as for private prayer - please ensure you follow the Covid-safe instructions. We look forward to welcoming you.

Please continue to keep yourselves and others safe. God bless you all.
Canon Charles Stewart (Vicar)
Services

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

We will be celebrating the Platinum Jubilee with a special service on Sunday June 5th at 11am. (There will not be an 8.00am Service, nor the Sung Eucharist at 10am. Instead, we will hold a said Eucharist with hymns at 9am.)

Then there will be the opportunity to celebrate together with a picnic on the Priory Lawns, whether or not you have been able to attend the service.

Please bring your picnic (plus blanket or chairs etc - a limited amount of seating will be available for those who need it most) Jubilee-themed activities are available for all ages!
Unfortunately we are unable to provide any food or drink as the kitchen is not yet open.
Sunday 22nd May

8.00am - Holy Communion at the Priory

9.30am - Eucharist at St George's with hymns (with Junior Church )

10.00am - Sung Eucharist at the Priory (also online)

6.30 pm - Choral Evensong at the Priory

Full details of all weekly services can be found on our Regular Services page here

Watch the latest online service

The order of service can be viewed here

YouTube playlists of previous services and sermons are available by using the buttons above.

Donations:

With Covid-related regulations severely restricting our operations, our income is currently considerably reduced while our outgoings remain unchanged. If you are able to make a donation to help us through these difficult times, that would be received very gratefully.

Please either post a cheque made out to PCC of Christchurch to The Administrator, Christchurch Priory, Priory House, Quay Road, BH23 1BX; or make a direct payment by online banking to PCC XCH Freewill, sort code 52-21-34, account number 52428036; or use the 'DONATE' button below to make a donation using a debit card. Thank you.

If you pay income tax, please contact the F.W.O Secretary/Treasurer via our contact page to discuss how you can Gift Aid your donation.

Services

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

We will be celebrating the Platinum Jubilee with a special service on Sunday June 5th at 11am. (There will not be an 8.00am Service, nor the Sung Eucharist at 10am. Instead, we will hold a said Eucharist with hymns at 9am.)

Then there will be the opportunity to celebrate together with a picnic on the Priory Lawns, whether or not you have been able to attend the service.

Please bring your picnic (plus blanket or chairs etc - a limited amount of seating will be available for those who need it most) Jubilee-themed activities are available for all ages!
Unfortunately we are unable to provide any food or drink as the kitchen is not yet open.
Sunday 22nd May

8.00am - Holy Communion at the Priory

9.30am - Eucharist at St George's with hymns (with Junior Church )

10.00am - Sung Eucharist at the Priory (also online)

6.30 pm - Choral Evensong at the Priory

Full details of all weekly services can be found on our Regular Services page here

Watch the latest online service

The order of service can be viewed here

YouTube playlists of previous services and sermons are available by using the buttons above.

Donations:

With Covid-related regulations severely restricting our operations, our income is currently considerably reduced while our outgoings remain unchanged. If you are able to make a donation to help us through these difficult times, that would be received very gratefully.

Please either post a cheque made out to PCC of Christchurch to The Administrator, Christchurch Priory, Priory House, Quay Road, BH23 1BX; or make a direct payment by online banking to PCC XCH Freewill, sort code 52-21-34, account number 52428036; or use the 'DONATE' button below to make a donation using a debit card. Thank you.

If you pay income tax, please contact the F.W.O Secretary/Treasurer via our contact page to discuss how you can Gift Aid your donation.

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Parish of Christchurch, Dorset. Diocese of Winchester.

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Welcome to our parish website. There has been a church on the site of Christchurch Priory for over 1300 years, from the first Saxon building to the glorious Priory Church we see today.

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Christchurch Priory Choir - Facebook (open source Google)

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Christchurch Priory Services.           

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Christchurch Priory Services.           

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Christchurch Priory - Facebook (open source Google)
This was a snap shot taken by me on my phone of details posted online of service dates and times.

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Kyleigh Davenport

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Speakers platform Bern, Switzerland 2021

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Speakers platform Bern, Switzerland 2021

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I had the opportunity to climb the steps to speakers platform in the centre of Bern, Switzerland and speak in English to sing 'Merry Christmas' to the Swiss. Social and civic literacies in action.

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2017-2021 Clipartlook.com

It has been an interesting time for me reflecting on my chosen subject of the Priory Choir and how different literacies have been embedded in to its fabric.
I first thought it would difficult to abstract literacy references, but having looked at the area of written work, I am amazed at the amount of areas I have covered.

As parish choirs around the UK find themselves struggling to recruit singers, especially the younger generation, it is even more important to focus and embrace interactivity within digital communication/social and media literacies to be all inclusive within a choir.

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Reference :

BBC. (2022). Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in my area? - BBC News

EDWARDS. M. (2012)  Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/5245/

Law. J. (2018) The University of Newcastle, Australia, numeracy in Authentic Contexts.

McCarthy. O. (2022) Study.com

Mishra. J. (2015) Associate Professor, Music Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
How the brain reads music: the evidence for musical dyslexia (theconversation.com)

Dr.McLeod S, (2007), )updated April 04, 2022)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Simply Psychology

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow

(Maslow. A. 1943)
https://www.oxford-royale.com/royale.com)

Nunes. T. and Carraher. D. (1985) Article in British journal of Developmental Psychology - March 1985.

Reyna G, Fehd H, McCandliss B. (2015.) Fontiers in psychology 6 1777
Does Music Training Enhance Literacy Skills? A Meta-Analysis - PMC (nih.gov)

Rolka. EJ. and Silverman. M.J. (2015)
A systematic review of music and dyslexia - ScienceDirect

Tarbert. K. (2012)
Luther College
Learning Literacies through Music