Video library
Building Confidence and Participation
This classroom practitioner is in the early stages of building a school choir.
Musical Elements Starter
This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.
Focused Listening
This classroom practitioner uses Saint Saen’s Carnival of the animals to scaffold a composition lesson.
Listening & The Teacher's Role
This teacher is actively involved in the listening activity. Clear questions have been articulated before the example...
Technology & Composition
This teacher utilises the capabilities of Logic for this Y8 composition lesson.
Assessing a Creative Process
The current lead Ofsted HMI for Music, Robin Hammerton writes: "Firstly, pupils’ progress in creating and understandi...
Scaffolding Composition
The periodic direction from the class teacher helps to scaffold this composition lesson so that the class are focused...
Behaviour Management
Music, as a subject based in sound, requires teachers to have strategies for managing behaviour including starting/st...
Differentiation 1
Using When the Saints Go Marching In, this experienced vocal teacher takes the group into part singing with different...
Differentiation 2
Using When the Saints Go Marching In, this experienced vocal teacher takes the group into part singing with different...
Extending Range
After working on these partner songs, this experienced vocal teacher uses simple key change to migrate the pitch upwa...
KS2 Part Singing
These Whole Class Instrumental Teachers have brought all three year groups to the hall for a larger singing lesson.
Modelling the Music
In this intermediate clarinet lesson, the teacher models her musical expectations by performing to the student.
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...
Developing Musical Context
Specialist instrumental teachers demonstrate detailed knowledge of the instrument they play.
Playing Other Instruments
This instrumental brass teacher acknowledges the importance of playing and modelling other brass instruments.
Violin Posture
This instrumental violin teacher discusses the importance of establishing correct posture and instrument hold in begi...
Confidence
This instrumental string teacher discusses her approaches to teaching and the connection with confidence
CPD: Instrumental Teachers
This instrumental teacher discusses the support structures available within a music service. Training and CPD are imp...