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BBC Musical Storyland

Journey through Musical Storyland, where children’s favourite fairy tales and traditional folktales are re-imagined with magical music performed by musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Primary Singing Toolkit

This free digital resource for primary music teachers from the ISM Trust and Voices Foundation aims to empower you to share the joy of singing with your students. Discover inspirational and practical singing strategies to enhance your music curriculum.

Royal Opera House’s Create & Sing programme

The Royal Opera House’s Create & Sing programme provides: a creative learning resource, created with teachers, providing songs for pupils in primary schools across England. classroom-based and digital activities, with strong curriculum links, to give better understanding of singing and opera for pupils, unlocking their imagination and creativity. teacher training,

English Touring Opera, Al-Haytham’s Light Opera

Is a free online, curriculum-based opera for key stage 2 from English Touring Opera, which comes with a 10 lesson plan teachers’ pack.

Voices Foundation Virtual Singing Assemblies

A collection of uplifting singing videos for primary teachers and pupils. In addition to these free assemblies, VF has launched #VFIntoMusic & #VFIntoChoral- videos that dive deeper into process of creating effective music lessons/rehearsals.

Setting Up A Virtual Choir

A free download exploring what’s required for setting up your own virtual choir.

Friday Afternoon songs

An initiative encouraging young people to sing, commissioning new repertoire every year for children’s voices, with a whole host of resources available for free on the website, including teaching and accessibility resources to help lots people.

RSL Teach Today

Free grade books and schemes of work for teachers across Rockschool syllabuses (Music Production, Vocals, Piano, Drums, Ukulele, Electric Guitar).

English Touring Opera

Offers ‘Singing lessons for kids’, a free 10-part online singing lesson series.

Sing Up

Explore Sing Up’s free resources that support creative music making and blended learning at school and at home. Suitable for teachers, pupils and families. Schools are welcome to add this link to your own website or VLE.

English Folk Dance and Song Society

A wide range of free, downloadable materials for teachers to use English traditional folk song, music, dance, drama and other arts.

Song Source

Song Source is a digital song bank designed to help keep children singing wherever they are. There are over 200 original songs as well as lyric sheets, scores, lyric videos and backing tracks.

Diocese of Leeds Singing Programme

A wide range of sacred and secular singing sessions, from individual activities and songs to complete lessons. Primary KS2, with some resources for EYFS/KS1/ Secondary.

A Cappella Lego

A free resource from the VOCES8 Foundation, A Cappella Lego consists of 11 videos with interactive singing activities including warm-ups and songs. Suitable for primary and KS3.

Free Songs from Bright Star

Gareth Malone and Catherine de Sybel introduce songs from their popular whole-school singing book, Bright Star, offering tips on how to teach them, and free lyric and sheet music for the songs.