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Instrumental Teaching

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Early years education

Information on early years education, including free-to-download resources.

First Notes Early Years Music App

Music resource app for use with Early Years packed full of exercises and activities designed to suit all ability levels to help with a child’s development in and outside of music.

ABC Creative Music Musicality Resource

Free trial of creative resources for 3-6 year olds.

ISM Teacher Pack

A helpful guide for all instrumental and vocal teachers, whether you are employed, work freelance in schools or teach privately. It covers issues which all music teachers need to know about, including finding work, setting rates, recovering unpaid fees.

ISM Primary Music Toolkit

An online toolkit from the ISM Trust to help primary school teachers better understand what music teaching is and how it can be utilised even more to bring the primary curriculum to life.

ISM Indian Takeaway: R?g and T?l basics

This innovative online resource brought to you by the ISM Trust and Indian music expert Yogesh Dattani enables you to take away lesson plans and successfully play or teach a piece of Indian classical music on any instrument.

ISM National Curriculum for Music framework for primary music

This framework and wall-chart aims to help you develop your curriculum, pedagogies and assessment in any setting.

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.

Naxos Music Box free trial

Naxos have made their new KS2 and KS3 resource Naxos Music Box free to use for schools during the current UK lockdown until 28th February.

Body Percussion Recover Curriculum

The #BodyPercussion #RecoveryCurriculum uses peer-reviewed and evidence-based fun and engaging exercises.

Charanga Musical School

Offering a 30 day free trial to an online platform to assist with teaching music providing high-quality digital programmes and an online learning space for children.

Home Body Percussion Challenge

Several short videos demonstrating a variety of body percussion duos, at various levels of difficulty, including challenges expanding on these patterns.

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.