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Christmas Opening Hours 2018

We close for the Christmas holidays on Friday 21st December at 3pm and reopen on Tuesday 8th January at 9am. Please note that our booking system is manual, and therefore course and event bookings received during our Christmas closure will be confirmed on our return. Wishing you all a happy and restful Christmas holidays! The […]

We now offer Skype Training Packages!

BIG NEWS! We now offer Skype Training Packages! Perfect for schools and teachers on a tight budget, an hour’s training comes in at just £69.95! Choose from sessions on pbuzz, singing, the national curriculum, behaviour management, whole class ensemble teaching, creative instrumental teaching, and more! Visit our Skype Training page for all the details!   […]

Top Tips for Surviving the Christmas Concert Season

In the last of our 10th anniversary ‘top ten tips’ blogs, Dr Liz Stafford offers some advice for music teachers on surviving the Christmas concert season.  Start taking Lemsip now. I don’t care if you don’t have a cold, you will do by the time the last day of term comes round and by then […]

Intra & Extra Curriculum: An Inclusion Fusion

At the moment I am in the middle of one of my regular work trips to Jersey. This is lovely for many reasons – the people, the scenery, the food, the weather (not this week, admittedly!) – but fundamentally because unlike in England, the place of music in the curriculum is secure. There is no […]

CME Blog: Planning for Musical Learning

Dr Elizabeth Stafford explores themes from Unit 2 of the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators. Every good teacher knows the vital importance of planning. The planning process allows us to really think about what we want our pupils to achieve, and factor in any benchmarks – such as exams – along the way, so […]

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Top Ten Tips for Distance Learners

To celebrate our 10th birthday, every month in 2018 we’re publishing our ten top tips for different areas of our work. Drawing on our experience with the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators, and our suite of online learning courses, this month Dr Elizabeth Stafford presents our top tips for Distance Learning. Distance Learning requires […]

Music Teacher Awards for Excellence: We’re finalists!

We were delighted to discover that we had been shortlisted for the prestigious Music Teacher Awards for Excellence, in the Primary/Early Years Music category. This is the first time we have entered the awards, and to be selected as finalists on our very first try is a great honour for us! We feel that this […]

CME Blog: Understanding Musical Learning – Music v Music Education

Dr Elizabeth Stafford explores themes from Unit 1 of the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in the company of young people, whether as a parent, teacher or as a passer-by, will instantly recognise that music is extremely important to young people’s lives. Music, like clothing, hairstyles […]

pBuzz Resource awarded 5 stars by Teach Primary

We are delighted to announce that the KS1 Music Teaching Resource which we developed in conjunction with award-winning brass instrument developers Warwick Music Group, has won the Music category of the 2018 Teach Primary Resource Awards with the maximum rating of 5 stars!   Developed with mini-musician’s little hands in mind, the creators of pBuzz, […]