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Instrumental Teaching

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Music Understanding

Essential reading for any school leaders and music teachers in schools currently reviewing the nature, purpose and design of curriculum music provision.

Music Education: State of the Nation Report

Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education, the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the University of Sussex advocating for all children to have access to a high-quality music education.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Minute of Listening

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

Listen Imagine Compose

Exploring how composing is taught and learned at KS3, KS4 and KS5.

Composition using ipads and Apps Inspire Events

Resources regarding composition in the classroom using iPads and Apps.

Online Composing Courses

Interactive online courses to help secondary level students and teachers with different aspects of composition, accessible from home or in the classroom.

Listening Inspiration

Free resource aiming to help students find pieces to give inspiration and ideas for their own composing activities.

Free Blank Sheet Music

A series of blank notation to be downloaded and printed out.

GCSE Music Composition Resource

Free digital resource providing creative inspiration for students tackling the composition module of the GCSE syllabus through exploring music by 6 NMC composers.

Online Resources Update: what music projects are doing and using to stay connected & accessible

Positive examples of what music projects are doing to stay connected, as well as resources and activities that can be accessed remotely.

AMIE Inclusion Resources

Tools and guidance, blogs and case studies to help you break down barriers to music-making.