{"id":673,"date":"2025-03-09T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/?page_id=673"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:00:17","slug":"the-new-mark-scheme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/the-new-mark-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Mark Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following detailed consultation, BIFF (the British and International Federation of Festivals) to which we belong has introduced a new grading system.\u00a0 Not only are the criteria shared across all disciplines (Music, Speech &amp; Drama\u00a0 and Dance), but the new scheme has extra levels that allow a far more nuanced measure of a performance.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/250131-New-Music-Mark-Scheme.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-674 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/250131-New-Music-Mark-Scheme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"114\" \/>Details of the scheme for music are shown in the attached .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is important to remember that you must not compare any grade awarded under the new scheme with one from last year (or before!)\u00a0 They are awarded on a different basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following detailed consultation, BIFF (the British and International Federation of Festivals) to which we belong has introduced a new grading system.\u00a0 Not only are the criteria shared across all disciplines (Music, Speech &amp; Drama\u00a0 and Dance), but the new scheme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/the-new-mark-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}