Key Contact
Kirsty England
NASBTT Associate Consultant
Secondary Music
Email: secondarymusic@nasbtt.org.uk
Twitter: @kiwlcockson
Subject Resources
Welcome to the TESN Secondary Music resource area.
Having had the privilege of working in Music Education for over 16 years, I have created a group of resources that I have found helpful.
Since starting as a music teacher, I was hooked on ensuring that young people experience a rich music education. I believe it is such a powerful and exciting subject to teach that can reach way beyond curriculum lessons. Music can be such a fantastic tool to explore feelings and emotions; it can be used to enrich not just the time that young people spend at school but their whole life. As music educators, we have the power to instil this; not just through performing, composing and improvising but through careful, focused listening.
This page will be updated regularly, but if you come across a resource that you find useful, and wish for it to be shared, please get in touch.
Music Education Hubs
Music Hubs are partnerships with the Arts Council England that support, deliver and enable access to music education for children and young people within a local area. These partnerships are co-ordinated by a Hub Lead Organisation and can include schools, local authorities, community groups, music organisations, industry and more.
There is a Music Hub for every area of England so all children and young people can access high-quality music education.
Curriculum planning
Inclusive curriculum
Transition from KS2-3
Listening
Examples of projects/videos of good practice
Composition
Pedagogy
Conducting
General
Core Reading
- A Practical Guide to Teaching Music by Evans
- Teaching Music Musically by Swanwick
- The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music by Savage
Wider reading to inform holistic music teaching practice
- Teaching Primary Music by Daubney (helpful to inform pedagogy at KS3)
- Simultaneous Learning by Paul Harris
- Kodaly Today by Houlahan and Tacka
- Creativity by Henley
- Music education cultural capital and social group identity
- What is Ofsted's cultural capital
- https://www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lmnonlineschools
- https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-3/subjects/music
- https://www.ism.org/advice/online-learning-resources
- You Tube - The Voices Foundation - scroll down for past webinars relating to subject wide discussions
Model Music Curriculum
- Model Music Curriculum: Key Stages 1 to 3
- Music Teacher Magazine - Reviewing the Model Music Curriculum (useful summary with questions to consider at the end)
National Plan for Music Education (revised plan due later this year)
- The power of music to change lives: a national plan for music education
- What does the refreshed National Plan for Music Education in England mean for you?
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