This resource focuses primarily on teaching piano to younger beginners. It explores the right time to start learning an instrument, teaching notation and rhythm, forming a sound technical basis,...
Helen Reid Teaching Materials
The first part of this two-part resource (Music Teacher, December 2019) looked at the creative side of putting on a musical. This second part will consider the practical side, including ideas on how...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
A Do Now activity (sometimes called Do It Now) – as its name suggests – is an activity that students do as soon as they enter the classroom. Their two main purposes are to settle the class, and to...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This is the first in a ‘World tour’ series of resources exploring musical styles from different parts of the world that otherwise might not make a big impact on the Key Stage 3 curriculum.
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
Great musicians already know the exact sound they are going to create before they move their bodies. This resource looks at placing sound at the forefront of everything you teach.
Richard Steggall Teaching Materials
The following is a Christmas stocking of ideas for KS2 through to KS5. The aims are to widen listening using the right vocabulary, to try out different compositional techniques – and to have some...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
If you've never put on a musical or you're about to embark on the process, then this resource is for you. It is split into two parts, the first covering the musical side and the second dealing with...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
This resource uses the idea of comparing the music of Stormzy and Mozart as a springboard for performing, listening and analysing at KS3. The idea is not to promote one above the other, but to...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This resource is intended to help visiting music teachers improve their time management in 20- to 30-minute lessons, teaching individual students or small groups.
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This is one of the two set works chosen by IB for assessment from 2020, and it allows students to approach many different concepts and themes: Romanticism and Rachmaninov's place as the ‘last great...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
Homework can be a valuable means of covering some of the factual knowledge about music that you want to bring into your lessons. By covering some of this in advance through homework tasks, you're...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This is the second part of a two-part resource on Cubase Elements 10. Part one (Music Teacher, October 2019) covered the basics of the software, how to start students off, how to get started, creating...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials