KS2 sometimes change instruments as skills evolve. This is encouraged.

Children are encouraged to respond to a question in contrasting voices.

Pupils play chants on instruments conducted by a pupil.

Children, conducted by the teacher, perform chants as a whole class.

Inspired by the music, children create chants for each character.

Linking instruments and characters.

Chime bars are used to perform rhythms created from food names.

Using food names, children improvise rhythms.

These pupils describe their experience of a song writing lesson recorded earlier that day. Despite the variance in in...

This Head of Music discusses her experiences working in a large secondary school.

It is often difficult to separate out the component parts of musical learning.

In this y8 classroom music lesson, the teacher encourages the class to map out ideas for arranging the song "Stand by...

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

This teacher discusses why she has chosen to engage with the Btec.

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