This video explores how to make the most of sketchbooks in primary Art and Design lessons. It offers practical tips for integrating sketchbooks into the creative process, encouraging experimentation, reflection, and personal expression. Perfect for boosting confidence in both teachers and pupils, the video highlights sketchbooks as an essential tool for developing artistic skills and documenting progress over time.
Presented by Lucy Roff. Find the accompanying slides here.
In this helpful video, Dr. Elizabeth Stafford shares practical advice for leading an effective music staff meeting. She offers tips on setting clear goals, encouraging participation, and boosting staff confidence in delivering high-quality music lessons across the school.
This Music video introduces the concept of musical structure, or form, and how it organises sections within a piece of music. It explains common structures such as verse-chorus, binary, ternary, and rondo, helping teachers support pupils in identifying and composing with clear musical forms.
This Music video explores tempo—the speed of the music—and how to introduce it to pupils. It includes strategies for helping children recognise, describe, and respond to different tempi using movement, listening activities, and Italian terminology. The video also explains how tempo changes can be spotted and described easily.
Learn how to teach singing with confidence using a combination of ‘copyback’ and ‘patterning’ techniques to develop an enjoyment of singing in your pupils.
This Music short video explains the difference between pulse and rhythm, two essential musical concepts often confused by pupils. You’ll explore how to describe and demonstrate each, with practical activities to help children develop coordination and understanding, such as marching to the beat and clapping rhythms. Ideal for embedding the concept of duration from the national curriculum.
This video explores the musical concept of pitch—how high or low a note sounds—and how to teach it effectively in the classroom. You’ll learn how to clarify common confusions between pitch and volume, and gain practical strategies to help pupils understand, demonstrate, and use pitch vocabulary accurately through singing and gesture.
This Music video introduces percussion instruments and how to use them effectively in the primary classroom. It explains the difference between tuned and untuned percussion, offering tips for introducing rhythm through accessible instruments like shakers, tambourines, and glockenspiels. Perfect for building musical skills and confidence, the video highlights why percussion is a great starting point for whole-class instrumental music-making.
This Music video introduces graphic scores as an accessible way to explore notation in primary music. It explains how to use symbols and pictures to represent musical ideas, helping pupils organise and perform their compositions before they learn formal notation. It is ideal for KS1 and a perfect stepping stone to more advanced musical literacy in KS2.
