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Primary

Minute of Listening

Helps pupils develop their creative listening skills. This carefully curated collection of introduces children to a range of music and sounds.

Practical songwritten ideas and inspiring songs – Song Academy

5 tips and tricks to kickstart the songwriting process, plus a playlist of inspiring songs across different genres. Suitable for primary and secondary.

Arts Award with BCMG

These resources enable children or a class of children to complete their Discover or Explore Arts Award remotely with BCMG.

Ocarina Workshop

Offers extensive free ocarina teaching tips and lessons, and are giving Play Your Ocarina Book 1 free with every ocarina purchased, plus a free ocarina with the set of Adventurous Music-Making books and CDs.

Future learn MOOC on improving as a music teacher

Whether you’re starting your music teaching career or refreshing your skills, our free online course helps you take your teaching to the next level. This free course will provide you with a strong foundation of the skills, knowledge and insight needed.

MTB Piano Duets

Music Teachers’ Board’s supporting exercises are all designed to enable musical development. Find reading skills, listening skills, scales, technical studies and even duets for all grade levels.

Livestreamed piano lessons from WKMT

Free advanced lessons in composition, music analysis, counterpoint harmony and piano technique.

RSL Teach Today

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

RSL Learning Platform

The revolutionary music teaching and learning app from RSL Awards. Access a huge library of RSL Awards’ grade book materials on an interactive score player, and deliver online lessons via the app with its in-built Zoom Functionality.

English Touring Opera

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

ISM Guide to Buying Adaptive Musical Instruments

This guide from Creative United includes details of more than 80 musical instruments and products, many of which have been specially designed to make learning and playing musical instruments accessible.

Future is Now Primary Workshops: Soundscape Stories from Music for Youth

YouTube music workshop series for children aged 7-10, which will help them gain the skills they need to create their own piece of music using different sounds, melodies, and rhythms.

In the Gap! Fun Improvisation

A resource designed to allow teachers to introduce basic improvisation and creative music into their lessons, which is suitable for whole class, group and individual sessions.

National Curriculum for Music at Primary

Information regarding the National Curriculum for Music introduced in 2014, including programmes of study for primary schools.

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.