Curriculum

Expo 2025 speaker Julia Toppin
Music & Drama Education Expo

Meet the Expo 2025 speaker: Julia Toppin

Hannah Matthews, brass teacher at Charnwood College, with Y5 pupils at their first concert at Robert Bakewell Primary School, July 2024 (a project sponsored by the Leicestershire Music and Cultural Trust)
Features

Towards an integrated music education

Murray McLachlan teaching at Chetham’s International Piano Summer School
Features

Trends in current piano syllabuses

Teaching Materials

Edexcel AoS1 vocal music: wider listening and other perspectives

Teaching Materials

Eduqas Area of Study E: Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

According to his daughter, the US composer William Grant Still (d. 1979) had a childlike spirit, which is evident in his Animal Sketches collection
Features

Exploring piano repertoire by Black composers

Cuts to extracurricular music activities have implications for social mobility
Opinion

ISM column: the unequal musical playing field

Celia Waterhouse, of the British Kodály Academy, leads SMA conference delegates through exercises to introduce notation by connecting it to pitch, pulse, rhythm and movement
Features

Music literacy: what's the future?

Opinion

Black History Month: preparing for the future

The Four Aces Club, the pioneering venue in Dalston, East London, for music of Black origin during the 1960s–80s
News

Black History Month resources for music teachers

Two BBC Philharmonic Schools' Concerts will be given on 9 October in Manchester
News

BBC Ten Pieces releases new classroom resources

News

Call for evidence for the Curriculum and Assessment Review