Purpose, process and audience.

What is the starting point in planning learning?

A strong framework should be taught properly from the outset.

Completing a successful lesson, diaries are filled in.

Using a simple tune, these young players concentrate on reading the music.

Warm up, mouthpiece and playing two notes to start a lesson.

A specialist visiting teacher on a lesson for brass novices

Playing 'piano' and 'forte'. Crescendo is played too.

Looking at loud and quiet, long and short notes.

I'm a little teapot and the 'ABC' song, pulse and actions.

Vocal specialist explains rationale behind this kinaesthetic vocal starter.

Listening and joining in to a catch-on song with increasing complexity.

Vocal specialist makes the case for teaching vocal starters.

Vocal specialist shows how to start a vocal session.

Vocal specialist explains rationale behind 'Give Me 5' vocal starter.

Children respond to teacher actions like 'Give Me 5', Give Me 10, Low 10...

Pupils play chants on instruments conducted by a pupil.

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

Linking instruments and characters.

The teacher is to develop musical understanding based on one song.

A teacher reflects on embedding rhythm and pulse.

Chime bars are used to perform rhythms created from food names.

This teacher discusses the importance of her role in offering feedback, responding to ideas and encouraging students ...

In this y8 arranging lesson, the groups engage in peer assessment.

In this Y8 'arranging' lesson, the class teacher offers an 'arranger’s notepad' as a tool to help the groups structur...