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A complete Year 7 Indonesian Gamelan unit featuring a six-lesson scheme of work, editable student booklet, PowerPoint presentation, ensemble scores, audio examples and practical activities. Ideal for introducing world music through listening, performing and musical understanding.

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Carnival

Join the Carnival! An introduction to the orchestra like you’ve never seen before, with 12 weekly hour-long lessons designed for Year 7 pupils, developing pupil’s musical skills over a term: explore the elements of music, different forms of notation, instruments of the orchestra.

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Fantastique

Explore Berlioz’s Symphonie fanstastique and delve into the world of programme music with Aurora Orchestra in this unit designed for use with KS3 pupils in Year 8 or 9, including a fully-planned 12-week unit, a cover lesson, homework ideas, and a flex-ensemble arrangement of the second movement.

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Thinking Routines for the Music Classroom is a practical guide for KS2 and KS3 music teachers, featuring simple strategies to develop listening, discussion, reflection, retrieval, vocabulary and musical thinking. Includes classroom examples, templates and ready-to-use ideas.

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This course will give you all the ideas and content you need to turn your primary school classroom into a summer music festival to celebrate the end of the school year!

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National Youth Jazz Orchestra’s Network Digital Hub is a place to share best practice in the training and professional development of musicians interested in growing their skills as jazz educators, and increasing their confidence in delivering sessions focused on improvised music-making.

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Sounds Right is a multimedia resource that is intended to enable teachers, therapists and other music practitioners to celebrate that universal musicality that is inherent in children, young people and adults across the spectrums of ability and need.

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This pack features specially recorded versions of our favourite folk songs for primary school level. The pack contains vocal warm-up videos, sing-along lyric videos and backing tracks.

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A digital toolkit from the University of Southampton’s Centre for Music Education and Social Justice 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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