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Secondary

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.

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.

Musicroom Resources

Musicroom is growing its index of free materials to support music teachers and students, including free a classroom teaching resources sample pack, and method packs for piano (for adult and young beginners), ukulele and music theory.

Classical 100

ABRSM’s Classical 100 is a fantastic collection of 100 carefully selected pieces of music and activities for you to share with your families over the coming weeks. Designed as a classroom resource, it’s already been a big hit in 6,000 primary schools.

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.

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.

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 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.