Useful for a starter for orchestral lessons. Wordsearches can be created easily at the website mentioned at the bottom of the wordsearch.

A quick starter or matching the descriptions to the key terms - melody, harmony, texture, etc. Can be edited for extra words, examples of each element or even, depending upon your class(!), a demonstration of an element. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Chords and lyrics for I'm Yours by Jason Mraz. Useful for KS3 classes, building up a band, adding in guitars, bass guitars, drums, glockenspiels, singers, backing singers, percussion etc. Also, useful for KS4 students who can play around with it and put it into different styles of music and use as a medley with Price Tag etc. (Check out Axis of Awesome on Youtube!!) Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!

A handbook of information of different styles of music from Renaissance to Film. Including; contextual information musical features of different styles/periods of music suggested/famous pieces and composers Useful for KS3-5 in varying levels of detail. More resources available on my page ranging from KS3-KS5

This is a list of devices that can be cut up, laminated and organised into harmonic, rhythmic, structural and melodic. Any feedback or other musical devices you can think of, please let me know. Thanks!

Noteflight is a free notation software to use online. This is a guide that covers what Noteflight is to using shortcuts and everything (hopefully) in between. I have included the publisher file if you want to edit it yourself. Feedback of what to include and how to improve it would be great, thanks!

A list of the musical checkpoints of Symphony of Psalms. Can be used to cut out and stick on a paper copy of the Symphony of Psalms. Useful for learning what happens in what sections.

Some key terms from Rag Desh for students to unscramble - either for an amusing introductory lesson to see what words they can come up with(!) or for a quick-fire quiz round. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Key terms typed out for use for a card sort; print - cut out - laminate - use as plenary/starter/organise into set works/apply to certain pieces/differences or similarities between pieces/finding the melodic, harmonic, structural etc. devices

Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Guide to creating chords based on semitones - useful for Year 8 students and above. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Useful for a class band lessons - chords and lyrics put together in a powerpoint presentation; students can read lyrics, chords and bass notes from screen. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A quiz covering the set works by Weelkes, Haydn, Stravinsky, Perkins and Beatles plus some key terms. This is not fully complete as there is an audio section (finding the videos on Youtube) as well as a visual music extract section; I planned to add in a few random bars (in sequence) of a part of each set work for pupils to recognise. This can be easily edited, added to etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Useful for putting landmarks on the vocal set works (Weelkes, Handel, Stravinsky, Beatles and Carl Perkins). Examples include: Cadential 6-4s, first theme appearing, E major chord etc. Pupils can cut these out and stick them on a magnified and/or photocopied score to highlight areas of theoretical interest. Lots more terms that can be added. Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts on this, thanks!

This is useful if you make a photocopy of the Grace score. This document is for students to cut out the key terms and stick them in their paper scores, colour them in etc. Useful as a revision tool or in applying key terms

Students have cut outs of 1 bar rhythms - teacher plays a particular rhythm - students cross off which one is played. It can also be used with a student demonstrating a rhythm and the students working out which rhythm it is or as a plenary as students are leaving the classroom to choose a rhythm to perform.

Musical checkpoints of Reich - put them in order of appearance. Answers written in on page 1 with several student templates to cut out and hand out. Please leave feedback!

A bizarre list of words that describes things that we would normally call a 'thingamajig&' e.g. creating the shape of a bowl with your hands is called a &';gowpen', the moment when you realise what you should&'ve said in a conversation is 'l&';esprit d'escalier' and &'phosphenes&'; are the swirling lights you see when you rub your eyes. There are lots of other words there that students can choose which is the correct definition. A fun form time and PSHE filler!