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Arlene Macfarlane @amac1982

Instrumental Music Teacher @EACMusicService, Director @SScOTmusic

Joined May 2009
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Made it ☀️ A busy, successful and at times, challenging academic year full of music, joy and listening to gloriously noisy brass playing 🎺📯(trombone emoji please twitter 🙏🏻) One more week of a Summer Course to go and out of office going on ✈️ Happy Summer teaching buddies 🍹

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This wee (big) team are just the best ❤️ #goteamgargie #oneschool Looking forward to joining them up with the other feeder primaries for comps! Whatever Covid - we are back bigger and better 💪 @Camille44601402
EAC Music Service@EACMusicService
26 Jun 2023
Presenting the mighty @Gargieston Primary School Concert Band. Good luck for your debut performance at Prize Giving, it is sounding incredible ⭐️💪 Thanks to team Wind & Brass! @amac1982 @Camille44601402 @EacEducation 🎺🎷📯
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The fabulous @SScOTmusic in under a minute! 🥳 Come join us! All welcome, no auditions, guaranteed fun! 🏏 🎨🎵☀️
Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust@SScOTmusic
22 Apr 2023
A snapshot of a SScOT Summer Course 🎬 A place where everyone is welcome and no auditions! Grade 2 age 9-15. Registration closes in 6 weeks, bursaries available. Come and join us ☀️ sscot.org.uk/summer-course/ @MusicEducatio10 @HIT_Scotland @CreativeScots @SCISschools
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Packed and ready for the 5:30am commute 😴🚗 Totally worth it for what is going to be a marvellous week! Almost @ncogb time 🎈🥳🐣
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STEAM not STEM 🎵 Bit of sound wave science today (in slow mo) @eacDarvelPS The p5 Trumpets did an excellent job of clearing the sugar crystals with their super sound! 💫 #artsinscience #air #vibrations #winderlearning @EACMusicService
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Thanks for having me @stmarys_music Such a fantastic morning with the lower brass and wider community at St Mary’s and East Lothian. Everyone was just wonderful 💫 @JGawn #warmwelcome #allabouttheair
St Mary's Music@stmarys_music
16 Mar 2023
Great to have Arlene in working with our pupils and guests. Thanks both to @amac1982 and to @JGawn for facilitating. #blownaway #brass #dollarstore
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As a proud peri, this is how my week pans out.. 2 days of the left, 4 days of the right. 🙈 #perilife #musiceducation 🤯🥳😂
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This is everything and more ❤️🌲 Well done p6 💫 You know I am your biggest fan anyway but this blew me away! #creativity #musical #passion #joy @MusicEducatio10 @EACMusicService
Gargieston PS & ECC@Gargieston
21 Dec 2022
Check out our amazing song writers! 🤩 The children in Primary 6 have written a brand new Christmas song. 🎄 We hope you enjoy! 💙 @EastAyrshire @EacEducation @ea_youth @EacCreative @EACChiefExec
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It’s happened… class teacher in one of my schools.. ‘you taught me cornet in primary school, don’t you remember?’ Im certifiably old 👵🏻 She’s still playing which is nice but still 😳🫣

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Amazing to see Sophia C (p7a @Carolside_PS) up there singing her heart out in City Halls with the Junior Conservatoire Choir at the choral showcase ❤️ @AndrewNunn_ you are a genius! #musicmatters #lifechanging #confidencebuilding
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When home and work collide ❤️ We had a wonderful time in Banchory with @CCC_LoveMusic playing in the Christmas Wishes concert ❄️ Thank you Children’s Classic Concerts! Such an imaginative, interactive and super fun concert to be part of 🌲 @matthewjchinn
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Joyful morning @eacDarvelPS with all my wonderful new brass players 🎺📯 Only lesson 3 and they are genuinely smashing it 💪🤩 We are all loving the interactive @CharangaScot resources to facilitate learning 👏 @EACMusicService #musicmatters #CFE #bestjob ⭐️
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2022/23 season @SScOTmusic is now off to a flying start 🏃‍♀️ Open to absolutely any child age 9-15 who plays a wind band or an orchestral instrument G2 NO AUDITIONS 🥳SScOT has a place for everyone 😊 #wearesscot #musicmatters #ensemble #opportunity @EACMusicService
Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust@SScOTmusic
26 Aug 2022
Delighted to kick off our 2022/23 events with our Autumn Play Away Day 🥳 As always, no auditions for SScOT, there is a place for you! Wind band & Orchestral instruments, G2 Age 9-15. Come and join us 😊 Find our more sscot.org.uk/play-away-days/ @MusicEducatio10 @HIT_Scotland 🎵
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And just like… summer break is over! Brilliant to be back @EACMusicService on the first official teaching day for the IMS Team. Excited to see what the new academic year brings for all my lovely pupils 🎺 📯 (insert trombone emoji here) 💫 #letsdothis #musicmatters

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What a privilege to be back at the @RCStweets as the very first ‘Primary Instrumental Programme’ Brass Teacher. It is such a fantastic programme that is being launched AND I get to work with my favourites @CalumHuggan @Camille44601402 ❤️🎵🎺🎷🥁#wbp #concertband
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Lovely way to finish up work for the summer with @benedetti_fdtn Ambassadors ⭐️ Brilliant questions around Interactive, game based learning. #getintoteaching #learningoutcomes #engagement #retention 💃🎂🎈🫧
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What a privilege and joy to be Director of this wonderful organisation 💛 A place where everyone is good enough and everyone is welcomed. The level of excellence achieved by the concert was simply outstanding! #amazingtutors #noaudituons #weareascot @SScOTmusic
Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust@SScOTmusic
17 Jul 2022
A completely amazing performance from our wonderful young musicians of 2022! Joyful & uplifting 💛🎵 We are so proud of all of you! What was achieved in 5 days is nothing short of remarkable ⭐️ #cheer4musickids
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Oops typo in auditions!! Whatever… we don’t do them at @SScOTmusic so no need to know how to spell it 😆
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We are having a great time @SScOTmusic Summer Course. Amazing to be back after 3 years, an organisation that welcomes everyone!❤️ #music #sport #art #inclusive
Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust@SScOTmusic
14 Jul 2022
Want to find out more about our concert… luckily we made a video 🎬 book tickets here ticketsglasgow.com/Pages/Eve… @CreativeScots @sistemascotland @stmarys_music @MusicEducatio10 #wearesscot #musicmatters 🎵💫
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Unbelievably proud of our Brass & Percussion @GalstonPS 💫 They started with us online in lockdown and this was the venue for their debut, LIVE performance. They smashed it 🎺🥁💪 @EACMusicService @Seonaid1472 #perseverance #musicmatters #live @EacEducation
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