Training & Events
Discover inspiring music education training and events around the UK.
Music Mark Members are encouraged to take advantage of our year-round offer of professional development opportunities including peer groups and our mentoring and coaching programme.
Join SLS 360’s fantastic network for problem solving, knowledge sharing, masterclasses and more. Music Mark members can access the network at a generously subsidised rate.
Music Mark peer groups allow people across the UK to connect, discuss and learn from people with similar roles within the Music Education Sector. This session is specifically for Instrumental and Vocal Tutors.
Setting up a Charitable Arm as a Local Authority Music Service
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 17 June 2025
- 1pm - 2pm
- Online (Zoom)
An opportunity to hear about the experiences of Local Authority Music Services who have gone through the process of setting up a charitable arm to enable them to develop a broader fundraising plan to support the work of their music service.
From Practice to Performance: Inspire. Educate. Resonate with Buffet Crampon
- 17th June 2025
- 2pm - 3pm
- Zoom (Online)
An introduction to Buffet Crampon, and inside knowledge on helping your students to progress in everything from Sax to Oboe.
T-Time online sessions are interactive sessions exclusively for classroom teachers to talk about their current teaching practice. T-Time is an opportunity to reflect with colleagues across primary, secondary and SEND settings around the UK and discuss hot topics affecting music education.
PR and Communication: Helping Your Work Shine Bright
- Music Mark
- Free to Members
- 1st July 2025
- 1.30pm - 3.30pm
- Zoom (Online)
Make sure your key messages are heard and remembered by your organisations audience, with this course from The Leadership Collective.
Growing Trans & Non-Binary Awareness
- Diverse Educators
- Music Mark
- Free to Members
- 8 January 2025 & 2 July 2025
- 4pm - 5.15pm
- Online (Zoom)
We’ve teamed up with Diverse Educators to deliver a two-part course on Transgender and Non-Binary awareness, to help people finding confidence in understanding, supporting and making space for Gender Diverse people.
Mental Health First Aid With Soundcastle
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 4th and 11th July 2025
- 2 Half Days (9.30am - 1pm)
- Online (Zoom)
Become a Mental Health First Aider with Soundcastle! Join them to explore many practical ways to support mental health in music education settings and gain a FAA Level 2 Award qualification in First Aid for Mental Health.
Learn more about the Music Mark of Recognition and our redeveloped offer for schools.
High Impact Senior Leadership
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 23 September 2025 - 26th March 2026
- 9am - 12pm
- Online (Zoom)
High Impact Senior Leadership is a virtual leadership development programme specifically designed for Heads of Service and Senior Leaders within Music Services, Music Hubs and Schools, led by Andy Hind.
Make your practice more inclusive with the Clarion accessible instrument
- 29th September 2025
- 3.30pm - 5pm
- Online (Zoom)
Open Up Music demonstrate why the Clarion has been such a gamechanger for schools and offer practical examples of how it can transform your inclusive practice.
Inclusive Event Facilitation with Celebrating Disability
- Celebrating Disability
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 7th October 2025
- 1pm - 4pm
- Zoom (Online)
An interactive session to empower facilitators to proactively design and deliver accessible events.
Stepping Up To Leadership
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 6 sessions between October 2025 and June 2026
- 3.45pm-5.15pm
- Zoom (Online)
Following on from the High Impact Senior Leadership course, Enhancing Learning have partnered with Music Mark to provide a virtual leadership development programme for Middle Leaders and
Aspiring Leaders within Music Services, Music Hubs and Schools.
Leading Difficult Professional Conversations
- Music Mark
- Free to Members
- 14th October 2025
- 1pm - 3pm
- Online (Zoom)
Join Andy Hind for a two-hour workshop on facilitating difficult professional conversations.
Music Mark Annual Conference 2025
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 17th and 18th November 2025
- East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
Join us in Nottingham for our Annual Conference to learn, network, and be inspired.
FAA Level 1 Award in Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 25th November 2025
- 9am - 1pm
- Online (Zoom)
Music Mark have teamed up with Soundcastle once again, this time to deliver a Level 1 qualification in Mental Health First Aid.
Carbon Literacy Training
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 27 November & 4th December
- 9.30am - 12:30pm
- Online (Zoom)
Join us for this 2-part Carbon Literacy Certified training course to help you build understanding and develop clear and personalised next steps for your organisation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Leadership Collective have created a bespoke leadership programme to enable your senior leadership team to find the best ways of working together, and to create empowered, inclusive and thriving work cultures.
Music Mark Members are encouraged to take advantage of our year-round offer of professional development opportunities including peer groups and our mentoring and coaching programme.
Join SLS 360’s fantastic network for problem solving, knowledge sharing, masterclasses and more. Music Mark members can access the network at a generously subsidised rate.
Music Mark peer groups allow people across the UK to connect, discuss and learn from people with similar roles within the Music Education Sector. This session is specifically for Instrumental and Vocal Tutors.
Steps to Success in GCSE Music
- 10th June 2025
- 1:00 - 15:00
- Hayes School, West Common Road, Bromley, BR2 7DB
Designed to provide teachers with practical steps to make GCSE music more accessible, our Steps to Success in GCSE Music course offers the opportunity to explore engaging and practical ways to analyse, explore and understand GCSE music through the Musical Futures practical approach to teaching.
In this webinar led by Kay Charlton you will explore how to use diverse and inclusive music in your primary music lessons.
This session will include understanding what stress is and how it might affect someone, looking at a couple of strategies around stress and a group discussion.
In this session, Francis will introduce key techniques for teaching rap with confidence, drawing on over 25 years of experience as a performer, educator and workshop leader.
Understanding the Pathways into Music
- 14th - 15th June 2025
- Building 85, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ
Join us on this free professional development programme that puts the focus on careers and trends in the music business, providing music educators with the information, knowledge and contacts they need to advise and support students who seek to pursue a career in music.
From Practice to Performance: Inspire. Educate. Resonate with Buffet Crampon
- 17th June 2025
- 2pm - 3pm
- Zoom (Online)
An introduction to Buffet Crampon, and inside knowledge on helping your students to progress in everything from Sax to Oboe.
In this session you’ll learn about prioritisation and organisation and how to better manage them – you’ll get some tricks and strategies.
Setting up a Charitable Arm as a Local Authority Music Service
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 17 June 2025
- 1pm - 2pm
- Online (Zoom)
An opportunity to hear about the experiences of Local Authority Music Services who have gone through the process of setting up a charitable arm to enable them to develop a broader fundraising plan to support the work of their music service.
Developing Core Skills in Primary Music
- 18th June 2025
- 09:30 - 14:30
- Online (Zoom)
In this full day webinar led by Dr Liz Stafford you will learn how to support your pupils to develop their skills and understanding in performing, composing & improvising, listening, reading notation, and understanding the history of music.
Are you making the most of your classroom help in your music lessons? Teaching assistants and additional adults (who may be teachers or performers) can have an amazing impact on learning when deployed and communicated with effectively.
Teaching the BTEC Tech Award in Music Practice: A Musical Futures Approach
- 19th June 2025
- 10:00 - 15:00
- Fred Longworth High School, Printshop Lane, Tyldesley, Manchester, M29 8JN
‘Teaching the BTEC Tech Award in Music Practice; a Musical Futures Approach’ offers the opportunity for attendees to explore strategies for teaching BTEC music vocational qualifications with students who have thrived through a practical approach to learning at KS3.
T-Time online sessions are interactive sessions exclusively for classroom teachers to talk about their current teaching practice. T-Time is an opportunity to reflect with colleagues across primary, secondary and SEND settings around the UK and discuss hot topics affecting music education.
Managing Behaviour in Music Lessons
- 24th June 2025
- 16:00 - 17:30
- Online (Zoom)
In this webinar led by Dr Phil Mullen you will explore strategies for promoting positive behaviour, and dealing with inappropriate and challenging behaviour in a music education setting.
In this session you’ll learn about concentration and why it can be difficult to manage, with some easy IT tricks and strategies to help.
Certificate for Music Educators: Early Childhood
- Autumn 2025 - July 2026
- In person in Birmingham. Online on Zoom.
The Certificate for Music Educators (CME): Early Childhood offers a flexible, part-time, distance-learning qualification in early childhood music. The CME is a recognised National Qualification validated by Trinity College London.
The Inclusive Practitioner Certificate for Music Educators
- September 2025 - March 2025
Develop and validate your skills with The Inclusive Practitioner Certificate of Music Education (CME) – a Level 4 qualification in music education accredited by Trinity College, London.
PR and Communication: Helping Your Work Shine Bright
- Music Mark
- Free to Members
- 1st July 2025
- 1.30pm - 3.30pm
- Zoom (Online)
Make sure your key messages are heard and remembered by your organisations audience, with this course from The Leadership Collective.
In this session you’ll learn about planning and time management, why they can be difficult to manage and some strategies to help.
Growing Trans & Non-Binary Awareness
- Diverse Educators
- Music Mark
- Free to Members
- 8 January 2025 & 2 July 2025
- 4pm - 5.15pm
- Online (Zoom)
We’ve teamed up with Diverse Educators to deliver a two-part course on Transgender and Non-Binary awareness, to help people finding confidence in understanding, supporting and making space for Gender Diverse people.
Mental Health First Aid With Soundcastle
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 4th and 11th July 2025
- 2 Half Days (9.30am - 1pm)
- Online (Zoom)
Become a Mental Health First Aider with Soundcastle! Join them to explore many practical ways to support mental health in music education settings and gain a FAA Level 2 Award qualification in First Aid for Mental Health.
Create Day ’25 – a free mass-participation day of singing, dancing and design with thousands of school children in KS2 classrooms across England celebrating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child with dancers and singers from the Royal Ballet and Opera.
Discussing social prescribing, community groups, the state and capacity of health services and positive impact that music can have. Embedding wellbeing and creative interventions into education and lifelong learning, including the role of music in supporting emotional resilience.
How can music, on all levels, play a significant role and take meaningful action in response to the climate emergency?
Acapella Summer School
- 11th - 14th August 2025
- 10.00 - 16:00
- Conway Hall 25 Red Lion St, London WC1R 4RL
A rare opportunity to work with Electric Voice Theatre’s expert acapella ensemble techniques through the music of women composers.
Learn more about the Music Mark of Recognition and our redeveloped offer for schools.
Get To Know Sparkyard! A Sparkyard Tour
- 23rd September 2025
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Online (Zoom)
This tour is perfect if you are new to Sparkyard or a current user who wants to learn some useful tips and tricks. This session will help every user to get the most out of Sparkyard.
High Impact Senior Leadership
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 23 September 2025 - 26th March 2026
- 9am - 12pm
- Online (Zoom)
High Impact Senior Leadership is a virtual leadership development programme specifically designed for Heads of Service and Senior Leaders within Music Services, Music Hubs and Schools, led by Andy Hind.
Make your practice more inclusive with the Clarion accessible instrument
- 29th September 2025
- 3.30pm - 5pm
- Online (Zoom)
Open Up Music demonstrate why the Clarion has been such a gamechanger for schools and offer practical examples of how it can transform your inclusive practice.
Sparkyard Music Curriculum: A whistle-stop tour
- 7th October 2025
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Online (Zoom)
This session shows the comprehensive, fun and flexible lessons we have to offer, which enable teachers to create an exciting sequence of learning to suit the needs of their classes. Whether you are a music specialist or not, this session will help you get the very best out of the Sparkyard Music Curriculum.
Inclusive Event Facilitation with Celebrating Disability
- Celebrating Disability
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 7th October 2025
- 1pm - 4pm
- Zoom (Online)
An interactive session to empower facilitators to proactively design and deliver accessible events.
Stepping Up To Leadership
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 6 sessions between October 2025 and June 2026
- 3.45pm-5.15pm
- Zoom (Online)
Following on from the High Impact Senior Leadership course, Enhancing Learning have partnered with Music Mark to provide a virtual leadership development programme for Middle Leaders and
Aspiring Leaders within Music Services, Music Hubs and Schools.
Leading Difficult Professional Conversations
- Music Mark
- Free to Members
- 14th October 2025
- 1pm - 3pm
- Online (Zoom)
Join Andy Hind for a two-hour workshop on facilitating difficult professional conversations.
This workshop will run through how you can use Sparkyard as a powerful tool for behaviour management, build classroom routines and create a positive classroom environment.
Hampshire Music Education Hub Conference
- 16th October 2025
- 08:45 - 16:00
- Botley Park Hotel, Winchester Road, Boorley Green, Southampton, SO32 2UA
Join us for an inspiring day dedicated to the power of music education in Hampshire. The Hampshire Music Education Hub Conference is a fantastic event for music teachers, musicians, and enthusiasts alike.
Conducting Course for Music Educators
- 27th - 28th October 2025, 18th January 2026 and 2nd May 2026
- 10:00 - 17:00
Led by Royal Northern College of Music Professors, this course is a fantastic way to sample the world class conducting programmes which the Royal Northern College of Music is renowned for. A feature of the courses is the absolute focus on the practical experience of conducting real live musicians.
Making Music with Special Children
- 10th and 11th November
- 10:00 - 17:00
- York Centre for Voluntary Services, YO1 6ET
Our popular course Making Music with Special Children will help you to find out how music can help you to communicate with children who have life-limiting illness and/or special educational needs. We aim to give you the skills and confidence to make music with children with complex disabilities.
Making Music with Special Children
- 17th and 18th November 2025
- 10:00 - 17:00
- Hoxton Hall, London, N1 6SH
Our popular course Making Music with Special Children will help you to find out how music can help you to communicate with children who have life-limiting illness and/or special educational needs. We aim to give you the skills and confidence to make music with children with complex disabilities.
Music Mark Annual Conference 2025
- Music Mark
- Member Discount
- 17th and 18th November 2025
- East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
Join us in Nottingham for our Annual Conference to learn, network, and be inspired.
FAA Level 1 Award in Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 25th November 2025
- 9am - 1pm
- Online (Zoom)
Music Mark have teamed up with Soundcastle once again, this time to deliver a Level 1 qualification in Mental Health First Aid.
Carbon Literacy Training
- Music Mark
- Members Only
- 27 November & 4th December
- 9.30am - 12:30pm
- Online (Zoom)
Join us for this 2-part Carbon Literacy Certified training course to help you build understanding and develop clear and personalised next steps for your organisation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Leadership Collective have created a bespoke leadership programme to enable your senior leadership team to find the best ways of working together, and to create empowered, inclusive and thriving work cultures.