The musical opportunities at the Winston Churchill School, Woking, earned it the Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Music Department 2025. They also inspired Matthew Elliott and Hayley...
This resource looks at why and how to include composing activities in instrumental lessons, regardless of your own composition experience.
‘If we want to increase equitable, diverse, inclusive access to musical learning, we need to keep children and young people at the centre of our thinking about the future structure with which to do...
The final part of our Developing Wider Listening resource on jazz focuses on what happened in jazz after the Second World War. We'll look at the new styles that emerged and consider how jazz ‘coped’...
Scales have a bad reputation; but in this resource, we look at why they are wonderful, both musically and technically, and explore ways in which we can effectively integrate them into our teaching.
This resource aims to give you some ideas for teaching great music lessons, whether remotely, through a ‘blended’ approach, or even back in the classroom – whenever that might be.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, where he and his father, Leopold Mozart, were on the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg’s music staff. On discovering and nurturing his children’s...
In July 2016's Music Teacher resources, we looked at the new change of assessment objectives between the outgoing and the new GCSEs. In this month's resource, we'll continue to explore context and how...
This resource explores the breadth of Nat King Cole's artistry and his influence, as well as appraising the four songs OCR have selected from his album After Midnight.
Some class teachers and parents fear that, in coming out of class lessons for their instrumental tuition, children may be missing out on important academic material.
