Compendium Primary Music
Music resources for primary schools
Sing Up
A wealth of free Primary music resources as well as the option of a paid-for subscription.
Theatre Seat Store
This site contains a musical Glossary for children written by Carina Jaramillo to help you teach pupils all about music terminology and theory.
#CanDoMusic
#CanDoMusic is a UK-wide campaign that aims to ensure all children and young people can access musical learning in school. Our mission is to celebrate and unlock the innovation of music teachers and senior leaders, to share practical ideas and resources to deliver music in engaging and inspiring new ways, and to support schools in ensuring that music plays a central role in rebuilding their school communities.
Durham Music Service and Durham Music Trust
To support music-making at home and within schools, at this time DMS and DMT have been uploading exciting new music videos every day from sing-alongs to learning how to play the ukulele, there is a whole host of activities for your pupils to enjoy.
BBC Teach - Bring the Noise song
Use the Bring the Noise song to encourage music learning at home or in the classroom. The specially composed song is designed to encourage music participation for primary school children aged four to seven-years-old.
The Beat Goes On
The beat goes on website has some wonderful and free body percussion and samba drumming resources that your pupils are sure to love.
Sunderland Music Hub
In partnership with Sunderland Museum and Sunderland Winter Gardens, they have created a series of videos for early years and KS1 called story explorer.
Pass the sound
Build up rhythmical patterns using body sounds. Pass The Sound is a shared learning resource, offering free warm-up, skills and workshop exercises for musicians or specialists to use whilst facilitating group music-making contexts.
BBC Teach - YolanDa's Band Jam
Watch the episodes from the series to support teaching EYFS and KS1 years dynamics, pitch, rhythm and instrumentation.
Alexander Armstrong and the London Mozart Players version of Peter and the Wolf
Use this resource with pupils to help them understand the instruments in the orchestra, use of timbre, dynamics and pitch. They can also use this resource to create music that represents a character.
Prokofiev’s Peter and the wolf
Sunderland Music Hub
Sunderland Music Hub works with schools to fulfil the National Plan for Music Education, ensuring the opportunities for high-quality music education are available to every child and young person.
KS1 - An introduction to the orchestra & KS1 - Rythm
KS2 - Body percussion & composing body percussion worksheet
Musinc, The Teeside Musical Inclusion Partnership
Do you teach KS1 or KS2? Then your students could really benefit from these live online music sessions. Musinc has a programme that includes singing, songwriting, rap and music lessons. Plus they can also provide some pupils with free instruments and learner packs. Find out more by clicking the link below:
Théâtre Sans Frontières
We have a charming song in French for 6-11 years to learn. Taken from our popular show for schools Les Aventures de Lapin (The Adventures of Rabbit) it celebrates the eating of fruits from the Caribbean, particularly Bananas. The song is called: Moi, j’adore les Bananes.
Yorkshire Youth and Music
We create music-making opportunities that change children and young people's lives by working in partnership with schools, music services, community groups, and other organisations and institutions who provide support and services to people in challenging circumstances.
Here is our online musical video series called Let's Play that will be great for children who are struggling with their mental health:
Composing music using the black keys of the keyboard
There is also a series of videos for deaf pupils to enjoy called deaf and musical.
North Tyneside Music Education Hub
Below are some ideas to support teachers to get pupils singing and creating at home or in the classroom.
Music Takeaway menu & instructions
Tees Valley Music Service
Free online bucket drumming lessons that you can follow at home or school.
Introduction to bucket drumming
Chrome Music Lab
Teachers can use this online interactive tool on iPads, phones and desktops to help pupils learn about musical notes, compose music, create dance moves or discover different rhythms and beats. Explore the music lab by clicking the link below.
Chrome Music Lab - Experiments
We wanted to share this brilliant blog post with you that looks at each section of Chrome Music Lab and explains how to use the tools and gives you lots of ideas on how you can incorporate these online tools into lesson planning.
Blog post from Midnight Music on 50 lesson ideas for the Chrome Music Lab
NYMAZ
NYMAZ is a youth music development charity who champion the transformative potential of music for children and young people. They have a range of online music resources for teachers to utilise.
Sage Gateshead
Every year at Sage Gateshead, musicians participate in the Big Sing by writing songs for children and young people to learn. The theme of this year’s Big Sing is climate change. While this year’s concerts can’t take place, teachers can still get their pupils to create a mini-concert at home using the digital songbook and online tutorials.
Digital song book and online tutorials
Myleene's Music Klass
Let Myleen Klass teach your pupils. The curriculum-based music lesson video series is fun and informative. There’s no need for instruments, and it caters to mixed abilities.
BBC - Bring the Noise
Perfect for Key Stage 1 pupils these music games allow your class to explore the different elements that make up a song at home. They can create their own version of songs and play them back online.
BBC Teach
The BBC has a range of free music resources suitable for primary schools, check them out below.
An online resource with lesson plans and live events intended to get children aged 7-14 engaged with classical music.
Music Partnership North - Northumberland
They have created some resources to help you create music in school and at home.
