In part one of this two-part Key Stage 3 toolkit (Music Teacher, December 2022) I considered a range of approaches and ideas for KS3, including curriculum and extra-curricular activities. We’ll...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
This resource will look at Key Stage 3, and consider how you can shape what you offer to your students. Advice for curriculum design, extra-curricular provision and long-term planning will be covered,...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
If you’re looking for a good jumping-off point for Christmas season creative work and music making with your students, a good choice would be ‘Carol of the Bells’ (‘Shchedryk’).
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
Composition is one of the crucial components of any music curriculum. Students need to be given the opportunity to compose, and the guidance to succeed. They also need to see how composition links in...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
This resource will look at listening in the Key Stage 3 classroom, with practical ideas to encourage students to listen.
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
In this resource, I’ll look at some of the ways we can use singing to help with learning, giving practical suggestions and ideas. Singing isn’t something reserved for trained vocalists, musicians or...
James Manwaring KS 3
This resource considers how we can use instruments to teach key concepts in music. It will focus on practical learning and how we can best approach it.
James Manwaring KS 3
One of the things that makes music a difficult subject to teach is its very nature. It’s ephemeral and invisible, and it exists only as movements of the air at a particular place and time. A score of...
Jane Werry KS 3
This is the second of a two-part resource providing ideas for a full scheme of listening starters for KS3: one lesson a week for three years. This resource will cover repertoire from the modern era,...
Jane Werry KS 3
This resource, and its sequel next month, will give you ideas on how to use wider listening examples as a ‘do now’ routine at the start of every KS3 lesson, including a repertoire list with enough on...
Jane Werry KS 3
After a two-year virtual tour right around the world, taking in the Caribbean (January 2020), South America (September 2020), China (December 2020), the Middle East (March 2021), West Africa (August...
Simon Rushby KS 3
This resource will looks at ways of using Noteflight to set meaningful and creative homework for your students.
James Manwaring KS 3