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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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Musical Elements Starter

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

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Choir Repertoire

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

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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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Action Songs

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

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Choir Warm Up: Articulation

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

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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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Group Teaching: Keyboards

Keyboard can often be overlooked in the musical provision within schools.

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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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Linking Warm Ups

In this whole class lesson, the teacher questions the children on the notes they are to use on their performance piece.

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Choice and Musicality

In this lesson the teacher offers the children a opportunity to suggest their own musical interpretation for performa...

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Aural and Notation

The musical learning in this example explores a mix of aural and notation based strategies to ensure every child can ...

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Performance: Whole Class Guitar

This clip demonstrates the possible outcomes from a Year 4 guitar group.

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Listen and Copy

In this WCIT Year 4 guitar lesson, the teacher uses simple listen and copy to warm up the finger technique prior to p...

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Developing Part Playing

This teacher explores body percussion in parts to secure understanding of the rhythmic elements and to internalise th...

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Linking Activities for Learning

Prior to learning the piece of guitar music the class will study, this teacher leads a body percussion piece that inc...

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WCIT and the Curriculum

Whole class teaching, when taught well, includes a variety of activity and opportunity to develop and discover musica...

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Preparing for Down Time

In this example the instrumental specialist teacher must tune 30 instruments.

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Whole Class Set Up: Guitar

Whole class teaching is a partnership between the school and the visiting music teachers.

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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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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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Authentic Song Writing 2

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

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Authentic Song Writing 1

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

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Stimulus for Song Writing

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

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Repertoire Choice

In this flute lesson the teacher begins to work on slurred articulation detail in the music.