Vocal specialist explains the rationale behind 'Have you brought your voice?

Children are encouraged to respond to a question in contrasting voices.

The teacher explains the planning around a Y4 module on Peter & The Wolf.

Children, conducted by the teacher, perform chants as a whole class.

Inspired by the music, children create chants for each character.

Linking instruments and characters.

Using food names, children improvise rhythms.

Using a simple tune and lyric, children explore tempo and feel pulse.

Encouraging listening children identify instruments in Baroque style piece.

In this short clip, the student exhibits a good saxophone embouchure - flattening the bottom lip, teeth on top, with ...

Modern instrumental lessons provide limited capacity to hear, revise and monitor scale practice.

Scale practice is an important way to develop technique and tuning.

In this intermediate clarinet lesson, the teacher models her musical expectations by performing to the student.

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

Group teaching offers a excellent opportunity to contextualise learning.

In this group brass lesson the teacher uses a backing track on a repeated cycle to stage the preparation for performa...

Working with larger groups can unveil some simple problems in the pedagogy of how to approach giving instructions.

This Rhythm game is an excellent assessment for learning tool. The teacher can see visually if the class are beginnin...

The plenary in this Year 9 lesson encourages the students to assess themselves in 2 clear areas.

After working in groups, this Year 9 group return mid lesson to explain the reasoning behind their musical choices.

In this y9 lesson the class are working in groups to write a song from the stimulus 'Orange'.

In this Year 9 lesson the class are working in groups to write a song from the stimulus 'Orange'.

In this y9 lesson the teacher uses questioning and clear prompts to help scaffold and collate ideas for a composition...

This teacher's assessment model is measured in statements constructed with the beginning "I can". The approach is to ...