Print and cut out these pentascale prompts to help piano pupils learn the structure of major and minor pentascales. Best printed onto card or laminated, they can be placed behind any starting note.

Use this simple game to test your pupils’ understanding of stepwise movement on the stave along with key Landmark Notes. Pupils take turns with their teacher to throw the die and move from Low F to High G, but if they land on a Landmark Note then there will be a consequence! If laminated or printed onto card you could play it while sitting with the pupil at the piano - all you’ll need is a die and Blue Tac stuck to buttons.

The idea of this activity is to develop pupils’ understanding and confidence with keyboard geography. I use my laser pointer to point at the grid squares and ask them to play the notes shown without looking at their hands (they wear an apron for fun!). There are different levels of difficulty and I cross off the squares they’ve achieved or cover them with small sticky notes.

I use MTB for exams so that means lots of audio and video recordings. It’s important to let people know this is happening so here’s the poster I use.