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Discover inspiring music education training and events around the UK.

Music Mark Members are encouraged to take advantage of our year-round offer of professional development opportunities including peer groups and our mentoring and coaching programme.

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Growing Trans & Non-Binary Awareness

  • 8 January 2025 & 2 July 2025
  • 4pm - 5.15pm
  • Online (Zoom)

We’ve teamed up with Diverse Educators to deliver a two-part course on Transgender and Non-Binary awareness, to help people finding confidence in understanding, supporting and making space for Gender Diverse people.

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Supporting Music Professionals in Becoming More Confident in Using Excel

  • 13th January 2025
  • 1.30pm - 3pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Build your confidence in using spreadsheets and how to best use them to present and analyse your data.

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How to Advocate for Music as a Subject | The Secondary Music Teaching Series

  • 15th January 2025
  • 4:45pm - 6pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Learn how to advocate for your subject in secondary schools with Jenetta Hurst as part of our Secondary Music Teaching Series.

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Climate Conversations

  • 20 January 2-3pm, 19 March 2025 9:30-10:30am
  • Hour Long Sessions
  • Online (Zoom)

An opportunity for colleagues across the UK music education sector to discuss how they are getting involved in This Is Not A Rehearsal, and raise ideas or challenges surrounding their work and the climate crisis.

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An overview and introduction to the work of OHMI.

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Join us for an online session with flautist, educator and ABRSM Chief Examiner Zoe Booth to explore examining as part of a portfolio career in music.

 

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This teacher education aims to help educators understand the ‘values perception gap’, how to close it and its impact on young people’s wellbeing.

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Join us and Arts Award for a webinar on using Arts Awards in a Music Setting.

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Finance Fundamentals

  • 24 September 2024 - 25 February 2025
  • 2pm - 3.30pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Delve into the essential financial principles crucial for any organisation, with valuable insights, practical tools and resources in this six part course.

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Embedding Diversity in Your Music Teaching | The Secondary Music Teaching Series

  • 26th February 2025
  • 4.45pm - 6.00pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Discover more about how to embed diversity into your school’s Secondary Music teaching with Jenetta Hurst as part of our Secondary Music Teaching Series.

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The Leadership Collective Leadership Development Programme

  • Available at current rates until April 2025.

The Leadership Collective have created a bespoke leadership programme to enable your team to find the best ways of working together, and to create empowered, inclusive and thriving work cultures. Music Mark members receive an exclusive offer on this.

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Carbon Literacy Training

  • 3rd March & 10th March
  • 9.30am - 12:30pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Join us for this 2-part Carbon Literacy Certified training course to help you build understanding and develop clear and personalised next steps for your organisation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Reflect, discuss, and engage to gain new insights and explore how ABRSM Voices supports teachers in delivering quality music education.

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Taking Trauma-Informed Approaches

  • 9th October 2024 & 5th March 2025
  • 4pm - 5.15pm
  • Online (Zoom)

We’ve teamed up with Diverse Educators to deliver a two-part course on trauma-informed practices and approaches.

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T-Time

  • 17th March 2025
  • 4pm - 5pm
  • Online (Zoom)

T-Time online sessions are interactive sessions exclusively for classroom teachers to talk about their current teaching practice. T-Time is an opportunity to reflect with colleagues across primary, secondary and SEND settings around the UK and discuss hot topics affecting music education.

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Mental Health First Aid With Soundcastle

  • 20th and 27th March 2025
  • 2 Half Days (9.30am - 1pm)
  • Online (Zoom)

Become a Mental Health First Aider with Soundcastle! Join them to explore many practical ways to support mental health in music education settings and gain a FAA Level 2 Award qualification in First Aid for Mental Health.

 

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Peer Group: Instrumental and Vocal Tutors

  • 24th March 2025
  • 5pm - 6pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Music Mark peer groups allow people across the UK to connect, discuss and learn from people with similar roles within the Music Education Sector. This session is specifically for Instrumental and Vocal Tutors.

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Peer Group: Instrumental and Vocal Tutors

  • 9th June 2025
  • 5pm - 6pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Music Mark peer groups allow people across the UK to connect, discuss and learn from people with similar roles within the Music Education Sector. This session is specifically for Instrumental and Vocal Tutors.

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Music Mark Members are encouraged to take advantage of our year-round offer of professional development opportunities including peer groups and our mentoring and coaching programme.

Find out more

Growing Trans & Non-Binary Awareness

  • 8 January 2025 & 2 July 2025
  • 4pm - 5.15pm
  • Online (Zoom)

We’ve teamed up with Diverse Educators to deliver a two-part course on Transgender and Non-Binary awareness, to help people finding confidence in understanding, supporting and making space for Gender Diverse people.

Find out more

Supporting Music Professionals in Becoming More Confident in Using Excel

  • 13th January 2025
  • 1.30pm - 3pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Build your confidence in using spreadsheets and how to best use them to present and analyse your data.

Find out more

Kickstart Your Creative Arts Project

  • 13th January 2025
  • 10.30 - 15:00
  • FABRIC, Thorp Street, B5 4TB

Would you like to set up a community arts project or workshop but don’t know where to start? Spend the day with Spectra’s Creative team and get the guidance and inspiration to start making the work you want with the people you want to work with.

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How to Advocate for Music as a Subject | The Secondary Music Teaching Series

  • 15th January 2025
  • 4:45pm - 6pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Learn how to advocate for your subject in secondary schools with Jenetta Hurst as part of our Secondary Music Teaching Series.

Find out more

Skills Lab: Using repertoire as a starting point for creative music-making

  • 16th January 2025
  • 09:30 - 16:00
  • Brady Arts & Community Centre

A training day for music leaders working in community settings.

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Music Education and SEMHD

  • 16th January 2025
  • 16:00 - 17:30
  • Online (Zoom)

In this 1.5 hour webinar led by Dr Phil Mullen you will explore strategies for delivering music activities for children and young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMHD).

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This day-long online course is for all those who want to learn about the foundations of choral leadership, and would suit those new to leading choirs, teachers, community musicians and young choral leaders.

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Climate Conversations

  • 20 January 2-3pm, 19 March 2025 9:30-10:30am
  • Hour Long Sessions
  • Online (Zoom)

An opportunity for colleagues across the UK music education sector to discuss how they are getting involved in This Is Not A Rehearsal, and raise ideas or challenges surrounding their work and the climate crisis.

Find out more

Teaching 3-5 Year Olds Singing and Musicianship

  • 20 January 2025
  • 18:00 - 19:30
  • Online (Zoom)

Early years music skills made simple in 90 minutes. This is a quick and easy online session is aimed at practitioners working within Early Years Foundation Stage settings to help organise and deliver fun activities to encourage musical learning.

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Curriculum Music Conference (Central)

  • 22 January 2025
  • 09:30 - 16:00
  • Mercure Telford Centre, Forge Gate, Overdale, Telford, TF3 4NA

The Curriculum Music Conference returns to the West Midlands on 22nd January 2025. This conference will provide inspiration for early years, primary and secondary music teachers, covering all aspects of delivering the music curriculum.

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An overview and introduction to the work of OHMI.

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Music Educators’ Conference 2025

  • 23rd January 2025
  • 09:00 - 16:00
  • Leicestershire County Council, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

The focus of this year’s Conference is equipping teachers with the knowledge and resources to confidently diversify their music teaching and supporting an enriched and inclusive curriculum that speaks to our community.

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Conductor and Vocal Coach Joanna Tomlinson leads a session for amateur singers and choral directors on how to look after your voice. We will not only look at day-to-day vocal health, but also consider what to do if there’s a vocal problem.

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Sustain and Grow Group Coaching

  • 28th January 2025
  • 15:30 - 16:30
  • Online (Zoom)

A six-session programme to support parent-educators to find a sense of balance and control amidst the busy worlds of working in schools and parenting.

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Join us for an online session with flautist, educator and ABRSM Chief Examiner Zoe Booth to explore examining as part of a portfolio career in music.

 

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Developing Core Skills in Primary Music

  • 29th January 2025
  • 09:30 - 14:30
  • Online (Zoom)

In this full day webinar you will learn how to support your pupils to develop their skills and understanding in performing, composing & improvising, listening, reading notation, and understanding the history of music.

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Learning Behaviours in Whole Class Teaching

  • Monday 3 February 2025
  • 18:00 - 19:30
  • Online (Zoom)

Would you like to feel more relaxed about behaviour in delivering whole class creative lessons with primary/elementary age pupils? The session aims to promote the benefits of building positive relationships quickly. Sign-posting to further courses and organisations is provided.

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This teacher education aims to help educators understand the ‘values perception gap’, how to close it and its impact on young people’s wellbeing.

Find out more

Primary Music Leadership Certificate

  • 4th February, 4th March, and 1st April 2025
  • 12:45 - 15:15
  • Online (Zoom)

This programme supports primary music subject leaders in all aspects of their leadership role including leading, planning and assessing, and delivering music in their schools.

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Secondary Music Leadership Certificate

  • 6th February, 13th February, 6th March, 13th March, 27th March and 3rd April 2025
  • 16:30 - 18:00
  • Online (Zoom)

Finalists in the Teach Secondary Awards 2024, this programme aims to provide tools to support teachers in developing a thriving music department and delivering a high quality curriculum appropriate to their local context.

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Listen Imagine Compose Primary

  • 14th February 2024
  • 09:30 - 15:30
  • CBSO Centre, Birmingham, B1 2LF

Join Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Birmingham Music Education Research Group (B-MERG), Birmingham City University, to explore the Listen Imagine Compose Primary research findings and toolkit, consider the report’s implications, and collectively think of next steps to support composing in primary schools.

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Inclusive Practitioner Intensive Weekend

  • 15 February - 16 February 2025
  • Beacon Music Centre

Two days of practical workshops, music making, discussion and reflection.

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Join us and Arts Award for a webinar on using Arts Awards in a Music Setting.

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Finance Fundamentals

  • 24 September 2024 - 25 February 2025
  • 2pm - 3.30pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Delve into the essential financial principles crucial for any organisation, with valuable insights, practical tools and resources in this six part course.

Find out more

Embedding Diversity in Your Music Teaching | The Secondary Music Teaching Series

  • 26th February 2025
  • 4.45pm - 6.00pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Discover more about how to embed diversity into your school’s Secondary Music teaching with Jenetta Hurst as part of our Secondary Music Teaching Series.

Find out more

In this training session, Dr Jenevora Williams will outline the changes in the voice as singers move through into their golden years; help your singers to learn about how to reduce effort and increase stamina, how to maintain a healthy singing voice for a lifetime, and how to avoid vocal illness.

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The Leadership Collective Leadership Development Programme

  • Available at current rates until April 2025.

The Leadership Collective have created a bespoke leadership programme to enable your team to find the best ways of working together, and to create empowered, inclusive and thriving work cultures. Music Mark members receive an exclusive offer on this.

Find out more

Carbon Literacy Training

  • 3rd March & 10th March
  • 9.30am - 12:30pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Join us for this 2-part Carbon Literacy Certified training course to help you build understanding and develop clear and personalised next steps for your organisation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Find out more

Reflect, discuss, and engage to gain new insights and explore how ABRSM Voices supports teachers in delivering quality music education.

Find out more

Taking Trauma-Informed Approaches

  • 9th October 2024 & 5th March 2025
  • 4pm - 5.15pm
  • Online (Zoom)

We’ve teamed up with Diverse Educators to deliver a two-part course on trauma-informed practices and approaches.

Find out more

This fun online session explores ways to ‘be more football’ in the preparation and planning of our music teaching to achieve top scores in learning outcomes. It’s 90 glorious online minutes of revelling in planning your beautiful (teaching) game!

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Diversifying Primary Music

  • 12th March 2025
  • 16:15 - 17:45
  • Online (Zoom)

In this 1.5 hour webinar led by Kay Charlton you will explore how to use diverse and inclusive music in your primary music lessons.

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The OHMI Conference and Awards 2025: Music and Physical Disability – Instruments, Performance and Sustainable Ecosytems

  • 15th - 16th March 2025
  • 09:00 - 17:00
  • Birmingham City University, City South Campus, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3TN, UK

The OHMI Trust, in collaboration with Birmingham City University and Imperial College London, will host a major conference exploring the barriers faced by people with physical disabilities to music-making, from the design and ongoing production of instruments issues around performing.

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T-Time

  • 17th March 2025
  • 4pm - 5pm
  • Online (Zoom)

T-Time online sessions are interactive sessions exclusively for classroom teachers to talk about their current teaching practice. T-Time is an opportunity to reflect with colleagues across primary, secondary and SEND settings around the UK and discuss hot topics affecting music education.

Find out more

Mental Health First Aid With Soundcastle

  • 20th and 27th March 2025
  • 2 Half Days (9.30am - 1pm)
  • Online (Zoom)

Become a Mental Health First Aider with Soundcastle! Join them to explore many practical ways to support mental health in music education settings and gain a FAA Level 2 Award qualification in First Aid for Mental Health.

 

Find out more

Nurturing Creativity in the Early Years Conference

  • 21st March 2025
  • 09:30 - 16:00
  • Future Skills Centre, Exeter, EX5 2LJ

Join Devon Music Education Hub and Take Art for an inspiring conference focused on the transformative role of music and the arts in early childhood development.

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Inclusive Practitioner Training: Plan A Project

  • 24 March 2025
  • 10:00 - 16:00
  • Beacon Music Centre

A discussion-based session looking at how to develop music projects.

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Peer Group: Instrumental and Vocal Tutors

  • 24th March 2025
  • 5pm - 6pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Music Mark peer groups allow people across the UK to connect, discuss and learn from people with similar roles within the Music Education Sector. This session is specifically for Instrumental and Vocal Tutors.

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Are you a classroom assistant or class teacher who is present during the music lesson which is taught by a music specialist? Perhaps you’re a music educator working with primary-aged children. Are you making the most of your classroom help in your whole class lessons?

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Managing Behaviour in Music Lessons

  • 26th March 2025
  • 16:15 - 17:45
  • Online (Zoom)

In this webinar led by Dr Phil Mullen you will explore strategies for promoting positive behaviour, and dealing with inappropriate and challenging behaviour in a music education setting.

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An Introduction to Music-Making for Physically Disabled Children

  • 3rd April 2025
  • 10:30 - 15:30
  • Birmingham City University, City South Campus, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3TN, UK

Do you believe in the power of music to change lives? Do you believe that all children and young people should receive a high-quality music education? For children with physical impairments, this starts with having the right instrument or supportive equipment that allows full participation in music.

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A practical and discussion-based session exploring the different ways that musical development can take place when working with young people with physical impairments, sensory impairments, learning difficulties, learning disabilities and how to support this in varied settings.

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Primary Music Leadership Certificate

  • 8th May, 5th June, 3rd July 2025
  • 12:30 - 15:00
  • Online (Zoom)

This programme supports primary music subject leaders in all aspects of their leadership role including leading, planning and assessing, and delivering music in their schools.

Find out more

Music Education and SEMHD

  • 21st May 2025
  • 16:15 - 17:45
  • Online (Zoom)

In this webinar led by Dr Phil Mullen you will explore strategies for delivering music activities for children and young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMHD).

Find out more

Secondary Music Leadership Certificate

  • 2nd June, 9th June, 23rd June, 30th June, 14th July and 21st July 2025
  • 16:30 - 18:00
  • Online (Zoom)

Finalists in the Teach Secondary Awards 2024, this programme aims to provide tools to support teachers in developing a thriving music department and delivering a high quality curriculum appropriate to their local context.

Find out more

Peer Group: Instrumental and Vocal Tutors

  • 9th June 2025
  • 5pm - 6pm
  • Online (Zoom)

Music Mark peer groups allow people across the UK to connect, discuss and learn from people with similar roles within the Music Education Sector. This session is specifically for Instrumental and Vocal Tutors.

Find out more

Diversifying Primary Music

  • 10th June 2025
  • 16:30 - 18:00
  • Online (Zoom)

In this webinar led by Kay Charlton you will explore how to use diverse and inclusive music in your primary music lessons.

Find out more

Developing Core Skills in Primary Music

  • 18th June 2025
  • 09:30 - 14:30
  • Online (Zoom)

In this full day webinar led by Dr Liz Stafford you will learn how to support your pupils to develop their skills and understanding in performing, composing & improvising, listening, reading notation, and understanding the history of music.

Find out more

Managing Behaviour in Music Lessons

  • 24th June 2025
  • 16:00 - 17:30
  • Online (Zoom)

In this webinar led by Dr Phil Mullen you will explore strategies for promoting positive behaviour, and dealing with inappropriate and challenging behaviour in a music education setting.

Find out more

Develop and validate your skills with The Inclusive Practitioner Certificate of Music Education (CME) – a Level 4 qualification in music education accredited by Trinity College, London.

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