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A curriculum teacher with primary , middle and secondary experience. A music specialist, but also called upon to lead school assembly from time to time! Recently returned to teaching after four years working as an HGV driver outside the education 'bubble'.

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A curriculum teacher with primary , middle and secondary experience. A music specialist, but also called upon to lead school assembly from time to time! Recently returned to teaching after four years working as an HGV driver outside the education 'bubble'.
Three Modern Folk Songs for Strings
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Three Modern Folk Songs for Strings

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A ship sailed up to Bideford The Wildwood Song Faces on the stair. Intermediate String Orchestra Arrangements of original folk song tunes written while I was performing with a North Devon folk group. Copies of the songs available on request. (pdf)
Chords on Keyboards
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Chords on Keyboards

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Activities and worksheets to support a practical sequence of lessons on using Keyboards to help understand and apply knowledge of triads. No particular order. The activities could be applied during different KS3 units, such as improvisation, variations, structure, or could be put together to support a keyboard unit.
Elements
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Elements

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A powerpoint to revise themes of the elements. (Get the children to predict what is on each page). A group card sorting activity which should pick up holes in knowledge, maybe for a new GCSE group, and a writing frame encouraging use of element vocab in comparing two pieces of music.
Variations
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Variations

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A prompt for a very simple structured activity creating Variations from a tune. A writing prompt for comparing variations from a listening activity. A worksheet to help with a look at the Trout Variations by Schubert Ideas for group work creating variations from proverbs. Keyboard task Variations on Oh When the Saints