Take the stress out of the essay question with this comprehensive 70-page booklet, designed to give students the knowledge, structure, and confidence they need to succeed. Packed with everything needed to tackle the essay question effectively, it provides clear guidance and focused content in one easy-to-use resource. It also includes a knowledge organiser and an accompanying PowerPoint, making it ideal for both classroom teaching and independent revision. Whether used to introduce the essay question, reinforce key knowledge, or support exam preparation, this resource is a practical and complete solution for teachers and students alike.

This resource has everything you need to complete the written aspects of component 1. It includes a 36 page guidebook covering the following styles of music: Soul Reggae Stadium Rock Britpop EDM Singer/Songwriter Chinese Minimalism Movie Music The Blues It also includes three example guide-sheets to help students make notes about the information they have gathered. There is also PowerPoint to enable the teacher to take them through this process step by step. The students will then carry out practical tasks based on the style of music. An example of a Blues music task has also been included.

An introduction to Opera and Musicals. There are eight lessons each lasting around an hour with a PowerPoint for each and a complete guide, meaning it can be taught with minimal knowledge. This resource is designed to be taught without the need for any musical equipment other than a screen to show the PowerPoints. It has an accompanying booklet for students to complete tasks. It covers a wide range of Musical Theatre from The Magic Flute to Stomp the Musical. A really easy resource to use when you don’t have many practical facilities and still want to keep students engaged.

Music for Video Games There are four lessons each lasting around an hour with a PowerPoint for each and a complete guide, meaning it can be taught with minimal knowledge. This resource is designed to be taught without the need for any musical equipment other than a screen to show the PowerPoints. It has an accompanying booklet for students to complete tasks. It covers both listening skills and creative activities. A really easy resource to use when you don’t have many practical facilities and still want to keep students engaged.

Each knowledge organiser contains all of the most important information from each Set Work on a sheet of A4 paper. This is a much easier resource to use for revision than the Set Works Support Guides. It is also useful as a quick reference for the main features of each piece, which have been split into: Specific Terminology Performing Forces Structure Melody Tonality Tempo, Metre and rhythm Texture Harmony Hopefully you will find this as useful a tool for revision and study as I have with my classes.

This resource provides a great starter or settling activity at the beginning of the lesson. Focusing on correct terminology and full answers such as drum kit helps prepare students for GCSE style questions. There is also a full booklet included with questions and a target setting grid. This is very useful if all students don’t have a view of the PowerPoint, and saves students writing down unnecessary information.

These are tasks which can be done in preparation for the appraising/listening exam, or as a nice starter activity at the beginning of each lesson,. Every piece of extended listening is covered with exam style questions for each. There is a student booklet with helpful terminology to guide students. Also included is a PowerPoint with the questions and music playing, after this there is a slide with answers. In total there are sixteen lessons worth of starter/do now activities. A really good way to get students thinking critically about music, and using the correct terminology when answering questions.

The following resources are included to help pupils understand what a Waltz is and how to compose in this style: PowerPoint with listening tasks and historical information about the Waltz A chord guide sheet to be used with keyboards teaching a typical Waltz accompaniment A booklet which is teaches step by step how to write a Waltz. This takes place through practical keyboard based tasks and also using notation software A Tarzia style challenge where pupils split into groups and sort the puzzle based on what they have learnt