Music Express – Online School Subscription

Music Express has all you need to teach primary music. This ready-to-use resource of teaching activities has been created to support a topic-based, cross-curricular approach and provides all the resources for musical learning you need. Ages Early to 11.

Fully resourced lesson bank includes planning documents, hundreds of classroom activities, video & audio support, teaching tips & assessment sheets. Plus a song bank of over 400 songs, a wide range of warm ups & musical skill builders for every age group, and a complete ukulele teaching course – designed to make teaching music easy & fun for any teacher.

A year’s subscription to Music Express gives you full access to the following areas of materials:

• • The Lesson Bank
    Hundreds of lessons with enough material for a year’s worth of music teaching. There are lessons for every age group, from Early Years Foundation Stage up to the end of Key Stage 2 (age 10–11).

• • The Song Bank
    Over 400 songs to learn and perform. On-screen karaoke-style lyrics give you a great way to teach a new song to a whole class, and full audio performances, backing tracks, and teaching tracks for specific sections provide everything you need to build a confident performance.

• • Warm Ups
    Vocal warm ups, physical warm ups and focus builders will get your class started and in the mood to make music.

• • Skill Builders
    Consolidate skills learnt in the lessons or improve areas of weakness with these bitesized exercises, divided into Rhythm, Beat and Pitch.

• • Planning and curriculum resources
• • Instrumental Resources
    The ukulele teaching scheme is ideal for use in groups or in the classroom, while the interactive xylophone can be used as a fun addition to any music lesson.

Award-winning digital primary music curriculum resource – a complete scheme to deliver the National Curriculum for Music, plus over 400 songs and ‘Ukulele Magic’, a tutorial for whole-class ensemble teaching.

Music Express is a subscription website which provides everything you need for teaching primary music week by week. Written by leading experts in primary music education, and based on the award-winning Music Express book series, Music Express Online contains quality and engaging music lessons with careful progression built in, from Early Years to Age 11. It is easy to use for teachers with little confidence in music, and allows flexibility for music specialists. All teachers can use it, not just those who can read music or play an instrument. It is designed to be as user-friendly and simple as possible – simply login and get going!

It’s not just lessons either. Music Express Online contains over 400 songs, with audio tracks and synchronised lyrics displayed, to get your school singing. There is also a scheme of work for learning the ukulele as a class or in groups. PLUS lots of warm ups and bite-sized skills builders to develop strong foundations in beat, rhythm and pitch. Music Express Online was written in line with the 2014 National Curriculum for England and Wales so is up to date, and there are lesson plans for everyone, including those specially tailored to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

With an institutional subscription, all the teachers in one school can have access to this amazing resource and feel confident delivering music. There is one institutional price for primary schools of all size and pupil number.

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