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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.

Arts Award with BCMG

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

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.

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.

National Curriculum for Music at Primary

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

National Curriculum for Music at Secondary

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

RSL Teach Today

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

With Music In Mind by Amber Trust

An ISM Trust webinar for parents, carers and music professionals caring for, supporting or working with a young person with neurodegenerative disease.

Valuing Music in Special Needs Settings

Report on music making and singing approaches for whole class teaching (WCT) and group work in Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) schools. The toolkit offers a training and development framework to be flexibly.

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.

English Touring Opera

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

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.

Livestreamed piano lessons from WKMT

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

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.

Seconary Ten Pieces Plus

Classroom resources to support the BBC Ten Pieces II initiative.