A basic 'How to..' guide for GarageBand. I have used this with Year 7-9 students and it works as well with all groups. Any feedback, please let me know.

Useful for improving numeracy of students; task is to count the amount of accents, find the bar of a certain word, count the beats of a certain syllable etc. Handy to use as a starter to introduce the new work. Lots of other items can be added.

A range of activities for my Year 8 form to teach them about what the Chancellor does, what are his responsibilities, and for students to work out what they would rank as the most important area for investment to be made e.g. health, education, transport, housing etc. Students then have the chance to work out how much of the budget they would spend on different areas, what the effects of cuts would be and to see the sharing of England's revenue for the 2012 Budget.

Chords and lyrics needed for the two songs by Emeli Sande and Coldplay. Includes ukulele chords as the first 4 slides, which can be printed and blu-tacked to the wall to the side of the interactive whiteboard. Any feedback you have would be great, thanks - any other 'mashups&' that would work?

An introduction into Cubase and Sibelius and an attempt to make it more user-friendly from the start! Includes screenshots, helpful tips and shortcut keys. Feel free to edit pages as you see fit and any feedback would be great, thanks! Sibelius guide updated 22.07.11

Print outs of the bass guitar fretboard for students to use when learning how to play the bass guitar. Useful for class band lessons - students can read the layout to work out which notes they need and evaluate which notes sound 'better'; higher pitch or lower pitch.

Introduction into watching Hotel Rwanda on DVD. Students work out which human rights are applicable to them in school as well as viewing some of the more viewable pictures from Rwanda in 1994. There is a link to the BBC website with a compilation of news audio clips from 1994.

Chords and lyrics for Feeling Good. 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. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!

Year 8 homework - a mixture of identifying keys on a piano, intervals between letters of notes and reading basic treble clef to identify interval. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A series of weird and wacky composer facts that may be useful as a starter with Year 7s or 8s on the history of music. Examples include Beethoven's pre-composing ritual, Tchaikovsky's fear when performing and Debussy's obsession. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A quick starter into learning the notes on a Bass Guitar fretboard - once the students work out the pattern they can fill in the missing notes. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

An A4 sheet of key features of styles of music - cut the sheet up and have pupils put them together. Can be used either as a starter or as a revision part of a lesson. You can edit/add/delete features to tailor it to your class.

A quick quiz on A Day In The Life made up of facts mainly from the AS Music Study Guide. Can be used with anthologies to get pupils started on this piece or without as a revision topic in preparation for the exam.

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 list of shortcuts for students to work out what happens when they use them e.g. pressing the letter 'T&', &';K', or &'L&'; etc. Any other shortcuts or feedback would be great!

Useful to have an electronic version of the glossary - handy to use to cut out, have pupils work in groups to work out which words they recognise/can match up with other definitions or can be used to associate key terms with Areas of Study pieces. It saves someone else typing it up, hopefully!

Starter/plenary questions based on half of the set works - Indian/African/Celtic and Reich/Schoenberg/Bernstein. Can be used to cut out and stick on card for revision of the set work or a revision of a starting lesson on the set work.

Lego House chords and lyrics. 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. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!

A presentation of what makes people happy - some truths/facts about happiness, things to do to make you happy, a video about what it is to be happy and an activity where students write their own joke and the top rated joke is put on the classroom wall. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Chords and lyrics for Bob Marley's Buffao Soldier. 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. Any feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!