Autumn Term Resource Ideas

BBC Ten Pieces Trailblazers

Ten Pieces Trailblazers challenges students to rethink orchestral music - what it sounds like, who can make it, and how it's used - through ten trailblazing composers and their pieces of music.

This new set of pieces showcases works that have helped expand our musical horizons, pieces that have introduced new cultures and sound worlds into the orchestra, and composers whose lives and works have made them pioneers.

Trailblazers delves into the world of Film and Television for the first time and explores music with influences from across the globe

• Films and Media
• Lesson Plans
• Arrangements

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The Kodály HUB

A public on-line Knowledge Center with a Songbook, Community, Forum and further resources to assist teachers in their everyday work. The Songbook contains several hundred songs and music listening materials from all over the world. The songs are analysed using many key, searchable parameters and (when relevant) accompanied by a game or movement activity to support the teaching objectives and increase the enjoyment of the lesson.

ABRSM Practice Apps

The new  Music Case app to help with practice from ABRSM is now available free to download from Google Play and the App Store. This joins the suit of apps on offer including Practice Partners, Scales, Aural and Sightreading Trainers and Speedshifter.

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Free online resources from Cumbria Music Service for KS1&2

Cumbria Music Service first launched online resources in 2002 as Tuned-in – which quickly won a reputation for imaginative and eclectic ideas approaches to music making in and beyond the classroom. These have now been updated as a free set of online units for teachers and children, designed to stimulate the development of creative ideas – an area of concern for Ofsted (Wider Still and Wider: 2008-2011).

Units contain video, images, audio and ideas for class discussion. Strategies for framing tasks, and encouraging children to shape and structure their own creative responses are suggested in the teacher resources which can be downloaded as pdfs.

visit Cumbria Music Service

Charanga

Cumbria Music Service has teamed up with the UKs leading online music resource, Charanga, to provide exciting curriculum-linked digital resources for primary and secondary teachers.

Your school can sign up for a 30-day free trial, and benefit from a subsidised rate when you register.

Developed in line with the 2014 National Curriculum, and the holistic teaching approach favoured by Ofsted, Musical School can be used as a week by week Scheme or more flexibly through the Freestyle mode. Musical School also includes Music World; a safe online environment created to encourage children who are learning to play instruments and can also be used for sharing homework with pupils. There is support for teachers such as how to handle instruments, how to rehearse to ensure accuracy and control, as well as how to assess performance.
visit Charanga

Sing-up

Going from strength to strength since 2007, Sing Up Membership offers the complete singing solution for your school, with countless songs and resources to place singing at the heart of school life.

Membership gives access to the extensive online resource bank – over 600 songs from pop to curriculum-focused hits, specially arranged for children’s voices. There are hundreds of comprehensive lesson and assembly plans guiding you through the Song Bank, making planning easy and learning fun.
visit Sing-up

BBC Ten Pieces

Ten Pieces III is using a brand new set of classical pieces to engage children aged 7-14 and inspire them to make their own creative responses to the music.

Free teaching resources are now available for all 10 pieces from the Ten Pieces III repertoire to help students explore and get creative with the music over the 2017/18 academic year, including:

• Exciting animated short films presented by Naomi Wilkinson and Lemn Sissay
• Orchestral and choral performance films
• Classroom lesson plans for primary and secondary teachers
• Downloadable and simplified instrumental and vocal arrangements
• MP3 recordings to listen to and download

visit BBC Ten Pieces

Musical Futures

Musical Futures is a movement to reshape music education driven by teachers for teachers.

Musical Futures has a rich collection of guides and resources that you can download for free.
visit Musical Futures

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids

The DSO provides a fun guide to instruments, orchestras and composers.
visit DSO Kids

Miss Ward Music

A fantastic independant source for KS3 with helpful summaries on genres, assessment and areas of study.
visit Miss Ward Music

Starting a school band

Tips and resources for starting a school band
visit Music by Arrangement

Do you have any favourite online resources to share?