This scheme of work explores the many and varied musical styles of West Africa through the use of traditional Djembe drums. It will introduce your class to the basics of Djembe drumming, get them playing a variety of authentic music and challenge their perceptions about music from this region.
Sustainability Support for Education enables education settings to start or progress on their sustainability journey. This includes all types of settings from Early Years to Higher Education.
A map to accompany you on your Inclusive Music Practice journey developed as part of Think22 that helped to bring inclusive practice to the forefront of music education in England. The four resources reflect Drake Music’s core organisational approach of Disabled and Non-Disabled educators, musicians
Get involved in Composition Challenges and submit your compositions to be in the chance of having your students’ compositions performed by London Sinfonietta musicians!
An interactive, whistle-stop tour of new music and composition! London Sinfonietta musicians and presenter Patrick Bailey explore how to compose and create new music. Listen to pieces by living composers, join in with the performance and hear new works by young people.
In Spring 2024, we added an updated Music Tech category as well as a brand new Tabla section to A Common Approach, our online resource to support music educators in their teaching practice. Watch our in-depth introduction to these modules led by the people who helped create them.
This article, written by Chris Philpott, considers ways to decolonise the school music curriculum in a holistic way, and looks beyond ‘adding more’ to the curriculum to challenging the underpinning values.
Members can watch back the livestream from our 2024 Spring Summit and download resources from the day.
Big Music Collective is a South West based collective of musicians and music educators who create engaging, immersive and interactive performances centered around music and wellbeing.
These singing resources are designed to support singing in the classroom. Use the resources to build your own singing session by choosing one from each kind of video; a physical warm-up, a vocal warm-up and a song.
