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Peer Learning Y9

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

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Plenary for Self-Assessment

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

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Rhythm Cards

Rhythm cards are a useful starter activity for many aspects of teaching. In this example, the teacher uses an ipad to...

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Choir Warm Up: Me Moo Ma

This classroom practitioner has developed a large school choir in a diverse school.

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Choir Warm Up: Articulation

This classroom practitioner develops the choir warm up further into articulation.

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Action Songs

Encouraging an extra-curricular group must involve an element of fun.

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Building Confidence and Participation

This classroom practitioner is in the early stages of building a school choir.

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Choir Repertoire

This school choir begin approaching new repertoire by learning the African words.

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Musical Elements Starter

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

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Focused Listening

This classroom practitioner uses Saint Saen’s Carnival of the animals to scaffold a composition lesson.

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Listening & The Teacher's Role

This teacher is actively involved in the listening activity. Clear questions have been articulated before the example...

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Technology & Composition

This teacher utilises the capabilities of Logic for this Y8 composition lesson.

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Scaffolding Composition

The periodic direction from the class teacher helps to scaffold this composition lesson so that the class are focused...

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Behaviour Management

Music, as a subject based in sound, requires teachers to have strategies for managing behaviour including starting/st...

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Exit Strategies

Finishing a lesson can be a tool for learning and review.

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Vocal Warm Up

This specialist vocal teacher leads students through a comprehensive warm up.

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Differentiation 1

Using When the Saints Go Marching In, this experienced vocal teacher takes the group into part singing with different...

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Differentiation 2

Using When the Saints Go Marching In, this experienced vocal teacher takes the group into part singing with different...

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Partner Songs 1

In this vocal lesson the teacher introduces partner songs for the first time.

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Extending Range

After working on these partner songs, this experienced vocal teacher uses simple key change to migrate the pitch upwa...

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Breathing and Sound

In this short warm-up the teacher has a simple focus on breathing.

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Modelling the Music

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

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Facilitating Creativity

This teacher talks us through her approach to her role in the context of her Y9 composition lesson.

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Advice for NQT

This experienced teacher discusses her approach to communication with peripatetic staff in a busy department and offe...

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Connecting Physically with Singing

In this Y8 classroom music lesson the teacher takes the class through a series of vocal warm up activities which conn...