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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.

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.

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.

Body Percussion Recover Curriculum

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.