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Music Technology

Play Trinity Rock and Pop App

An app allowing users to mix their own performances with the app’s professional session musicians using the practice app that allows users to to adjust pitch, tempo and each individual instrumental track from the mixing desk.

Bacc for the future campaign

Get involved with the Bacc for the Future campaign to save creative subjects in secondary schools across England. The EBacc is undermining creativity in schools and we need your help.

Write to your school heads/governors/CEOs of academy chains

Use this template letter to outline the risks of cutting back on music and the steps school leaders can take to protect it.

ISM Take Action Guide

Find out how to effectively engage and lobby your MP. Use the ISM’s practical advice, resources and research to promote music and protect music education.

ISM Advice on writing to your elected representatives

The ISM has put together advice to help you to write to your elected representatives about music and music education campaigns.

The Arts for Health and Wellbeing – Creative Health Report

Report presenting the findings from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW) which was formed in 2014 aiming to improve awareness of the benefits that the arts can bring to health and wellbeing.

Emotional Body Webinar: How to use Feldenkrais to self-regulate

Video recording of a Feldenkrais workshop with violinist and Feldenkrais practitioner Emma Alter, which examines how we hold emotional tension in the way we move and hold our physical selves.

Health and wellbeing series: Preventing playing related injury

A free ISM Trust webinar which explores the risk factors for playing related injury as well as simple preventative methods that enhance playing.

Technology in Music Education

Resources for teachers interested in music technology, including blogs, podcasts, news, videos and tutorials.

Music Mark Wellbeing and Mental Health Resource Collection

Music Mark have collated a selection of mental health and wellbeing resources aimed at musicians, educators, young people, those working in the music education sector, and anyone looking for ways to support their wellbeing.

Teaching Music with iPads Training and Workshops

A training programme aimed at being able to teach music with iPads.

Composing Music at Home (Instrumentalists)

Set of composing activities for young people with access to a musical instrument. Inspirations include code, bird song, clouds, constellations, skylines and stories. KS3 or instrumentalists.

Composing Music at Home (Children)

Set of composing activities for young people without access to a musical instrument. Inspirations include superheroes, nature, the zodiac, maps, lockdown, graphic scores and found objects. KS1 or 2.

National Curriculum for Music 2019

Two revised frameworks (primary and secondary), complete with wall-charts, to help you develop your curriculum, pedagogies and assessment in any setting.

10 Things Schools Should Know About Music

A booklet and blog articles promoting the importance of music education in schools, including posters for display.