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Resources to support music education within primary provision


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A digital toolkit for exploring conducting and graphic scores through music, sound-making, crafts and puppetry.

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in your primary school classroom with these 8 free lessons on Irish music. With this pack your class will be learning about the Irish musical culture, listening to different Irish artists and performing traditional songs and pieces.

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Explore our inclusive music education online course, designed for educators and practitioners seeking to create accessible, supportive learning environments. With practical insights and flexible chapters, the course helps you implement inclusive practices in any setting.

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UK Music has created Careers Information Packs to help young people who are interested in working in the music industry.

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Celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week with Tees Valley Music Service’s free online resources for early years learners. Featuring sing-along videos, lyric packs, and curriculum-linked activities, these resources support musical engagement, rhythm, storytelling, and creativity in nurseries and EYFS settings.

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Ofsted’s Christopher Stevens, HMI National Lead for Music, returned to speak with Music Mark in October 2025, this time with a focus on the recent changes to the Ofsted framework in relation to music and assessment.

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Discover more about Hal Leonard Europe’s MuseClass Primary offer, and explore practical, curriculum-aligned strategies to enhance creativity, increase engagement, and build confidence for both non-specialist and specialist music teachers.

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The Open University, in partnership with Music Mark and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightnement, conducted research with two main objectives. First, to identify the specific needs of primary music education in England from key stakeholders’ perspectives. Second, to explore how collaboration among the participating organisations could enhance music education in England’s primary schools, providing a foundation for future planning.

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Composition Challenges invites young people, teachers and schools to create new music for the London Sinfonietta inspired by works and musical ideas of living composers.

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This proposal provides a way to embed climate change and nature education into the aims of all subjects in the revised national curriculum. It presents short aims statements across twenty four subject areas which highlight the valuable and distinctive role of each subject to young people’s understanding of and response to the climate and nature crisis.

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