Improvising, often called ‘making it up as you go along’, is a fantastic way to explore music from within.

This session will focus on ideas to develop and improve skills, focusing on the musical setting, and consider ideas to hone and extend compositional skills.

Using the Rhythm Grids for improvising and composing – includes guidance on new replacement activities.

In this session, we will explore various improvising and composing techniques for different age groups and levels of ability – from very simple to quite complex and everything in between. We’ll also see how the various options for notation allow everyone to engage at their level.

Looking at ways you can develop your Original Scheme.

Bored of units of work? Want to provide alternative musical opportunities? Come and see how you can develop this scheme, making it work for you and your children

We’ll consider how to confidently introduce classroom percussion into your lessons, learning the names and correct techniques for each.

The instruments featured are glockenspiels, chime bars, shakers/maracas, tambourines, woodblocks, triangles, cabasas, cowbells, and hand drums. Join in with real or ‘air’ instruments!

Exploring the units within the schemes.

Kristian will model the units by offering examples of musical progression, next steps, and essential key points for assessment within each step.

While improvisation is of the moment, a composition can be revisited and refined over time.

In this session, we’ll include the activities from Step 4 of the units for ages 7-11 and those found elsewhere and consider ideas to hone and extend compositional skills

We need to place music at the heart of the learning process to foster and encourage young musicians.

In this session, we’ll consider how musical teaching looks and feels.

We’ll explore a range of activities and share ideas to take back to the classroom.

This webinar is ideal for teachers in mainstream or special units/schools looking for resources to engage every student in fun and relevant music-making.

We will explore the Anyone Can Play Scheme (also ideal for young learners), special needs
Freestyle—a collection of the most used resources in this context—and CREATE iPad projects, allowing time for reflection and discussion

Suitable for music leaders in schools who want to feel confident in their subject and their role as subject leaders.

We’ll ask questions and explore solutions to provision, progression and professional development challenges