Festive worksheet with puzzles covering rhythm, time signatures and note values with accompanying audio.
Explore a wide array of sounds with our interactive list of musical instruments! From the xylophone to the alphorn, click each image to hear it played.
#BodyPercussionChallenges is designed to be used by classroom teachers with or without musical knowledge. The pack consists of a pdf and three main videos or backing tracks whichever you prefer to use. For you to make the most of this pack, we recommend using the videos with the animated visual aids to help guide your students through the song structure.
Indian Takeaway, an online resource brought to you by the ISM Trust and Yogesh Dattani, complete with videos and visual resources, enables you to take away our lesson plans and successfully teach a piece of Indian classical music on any instrument.
A Whole Class Ensemble Teaching resource – tunes exercises and quizzes to support whole class ensembles. Including play-along backing tracks with a live band.
Short videos exploring the three works by female contemporary composers, crammed full with fun, interactive activities!
‘East End Friend’ (Robert Quigley & Alan Cameron) have composed a song called ‘Good Cop Bad Cop’ which references the global conference in Glasgow and highlights issues of climate change which delegates from across the world are tasked in addressing. The song has been made freely available to all schools for young people to listen to and sing along to. Schools may wish to create new verses and a new bridge section while retaining the ‘Good Cop Bad Cop’ chorus, however students may make any new arrangement of the song that they choose.
Mark Phillips HMI (Ofsted’s National Lead for Music) gives an autumn 2021 update on Ofsted’s work, reflecting on the music subject review published in July of that year.
A recording and transcript of the keynote speech from the award-winning composer, music historian and broadcaster Howard Goodall, given at our Autumn Term CPD Day in September 2021.
A downloadable calendar featuring 31 black composers with link to Spotify playlist.
