Sam Stimpson and Rhiannon Diamond highlight inequities in Music Education, and how to diversify the classroom or practice room in a non-tokenistic way.
The Rainbow Flag Award Classroom is a free set of LGBT+ inclusive lesson plans and resources including some that link to the music curriculum. Lessons have been written across all key stages and all curriculum areas.
Discover the Proud Trust’s array of positive, specific and inclusive KS3 and KS4 resources to support LGBT+ youth and LGBT+ education.
Download a free sample of our Musician of the Month resource suitable for KS1 and KS2. This gives you full access to one of our musicians (David Bowie) and all the resources for one whole month!
An ‘all thriller, no filler’ bank of resources for all those who want to better engage young people with additional learning needs in music-making.
Ofsted’s Christopher Stevens, HMI National Lead for Music returns to speak with Music Mark in late 2023, this time with a focus on the new music subject report.
Read our summary of the Ofsted subject report on the quality of music education in the schools inspected in England.
This resource for ages 14+ by Angeline Morrison (Guardian folk album of the year 2022) investigates hidden histories of people of African origin, and their relationship to traditional songs that are still sung in Britain today.
This report, commissioned by Britten Pears Arts with support from Suffolk Music Hub and Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bridge, maps Suffolk’s state school music provision in response to the 2022 National Plan for Music Education and finds that music education should hold a similar status to other core curriculum subjects because of its important role in boosting pupils’ wellbeing.
Music Mark has developed template documents to help schools prepare their School Music Development Plan.
