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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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Assessing a Creative Process

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

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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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KS2 Part Singing

These Whole Class Instrumental Teachers have brought all three year groups to the hall for a larger singing lesson.

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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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Preparing the Breath

In this advanced trumpet lesson, the teacher takes the student through a warm up which will be later linked to the ma...

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Developing Musical Context

Specialist instrumental teachers demonstrate detailed knowledge of the instrument they play.

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Playing Other Instruments

This instrumental brass teacher acknowledges the importance of playing and modelling other brass instruments.

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Violin Posture

This instrumental violin teacher discusses the importance of establishing correct posture and instrument hold in begi...

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Confidence

This instrumental string teacher discusses her approaches to teaching and the connection with confidence

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CPD: Instrumental Teachers

This instrumental teacher discusses the support structures available within a music service. Training and CPD are imp...