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ISM column: new resources for primary and secondary school music

What do you want from music education, and how best to achieve it? The ISM's head of external affairs, Colin Stuart, introduces new National Curriculum resources (for primary and secondary) that will help you plan and assess
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The ISM and its sister charity, the ISM Trust, exist to support music and music education. We believe all students should have access to the highest quality music education in school, and through our resources we do all we can to support that.

Over the past few years, we know that resources delivered by the ISM Trust, including Primary Singing Toolkit and Breaking the Singing Barrier, have made a real difference in bringing singing into classrooms where it may not have been before.

We're delighted that the latest ISM Trust music education resource, A Framework for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment in School Music, has been published. There are two versions: one for primary schools, and one for secondary schools. Originally created in 2019, and now brought up to date with the latest thinking, the revised frameworks are designed to help you plan and assess musical learning in your classroom. They can be used in a number of ways: for individual lessons, for medium-term planning, and for long-term planning. They can also be used for demonstrating children's musical learning and development over time. They are constructed upon sound, research-based principles and evidence into effective teaching, learning and assessment in music.

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