The current lead Ofsted HMI for Music, Robin Hammerton writes: "Firstly, pupils’ progress in creating and understandi...

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

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

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

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Btec students are given an opportunity to reflect on their performance.

In this lesson, Year 12 Btec students receive feedback and direction from their teacher.

In this lesson, Year 12 Btec students rehearse for their upcoming performance assessment.

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.