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Music

Supplement your resources

• Starters and Plenaries for Music

  A range of exciting ideas for starters and plenaries for Music, aimed at students in KS3 and KS4/GCSE.

• The Musical Cookbook

  A step-by-step guide to composition for students in Key Stage 3 and beyond.

• KS3 Music Listening Exercises

  16 KS3 exercises based on music from a range of composers and artists.

• GCSE Music Listening Exercises

  27 listening exercises designed for GCSE students. Music is drawn from a wide variety of styles, including music for film, dance, special events, orchestral landmarks and the popular song since 1960.

• KS3 Music Homeworks

  27 carefully prepared and varied activities providing balanced coverage of the KS3 National Curriculum for Music.

Use ICT effectively

• Using the Internet – Music

  Selected Web addresses, each with a brief review, and 15 engaging student worksheets based upon Web sites.

• ICT in Music

  An ideal starting point for any Music department considering ICT issues.

Manage the department with confidence

• Running a Music Department

  Handy checklists and forms to help you address ever-increasing administrative responsibilities and meet the need to produce detailed documentation to show how the department functions.

• The Expressive Arts

  Step-by-step guidance on the creation of an Arts faculty, examining the pros and cons, the make-up of an Arts faculty, bringing the Arts together, staffing, timetabling and resources, and the role of the coordinator.

Offer focused CPD for your staff

Benefit from resources such as:

• CPD Portfolio Builder
• Stress and Coping
• Successful Target Setting
• Child Protection for Teachers
• Parents as Partners
• Organising School Trips
• Racial Equality and Cultural Diversity
• Parent Support

Improve your department’s performance

Benefit from resources such as:

• ECM Curriculum Contributions
• Improving Classroom Performance
• Improving Exam Performance
• Using RAISEonline
• Departmental Organisation

Help your support staff and NQTs

Benefit from resources such as:

• Managing Support Staff
• Supporting NQTs
• Managing the Workload Agreement

Improve student behaviour

Benefit from resources such as:

• Behaviour and Learning Support
• Developing Effective Discipline
• Challenging Behaviour
• Relaxation in Schools

Offer a personalised approach to learning

Benefit from resources such as:

• Differentiation
• Improving Boys’ Performance
• Special Educational Needs
• Gifted and Talented in Your School
• University Applications
• Flying Start
• 50 Activities for Raising Self-Esteem

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