A useful start for Year 8 and 9 pupils into Romantic music. The task is a comprehension with the document - students answer questions based on picking out information from within the comprehension. Pupils then summarise information from the questions to come up with 5 most important points about the Romantic era. This is a document I'd re-worded from Wikipedia, adding and omitting bits where I saw fit. There are all kinds of things that can be added on such as more about instrument inventions, more composers, pieces of music etc. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Useful as either a start into the piece, a revision or halfway through a scheme on Capercaillie. The Year 10 document can be either a Year 10 or a differentiated Year 11 copy. Any feedback would be great, thanks! There are all kinds of other things to be added on to there but it was put together rather quickly!

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 Team by Ed Sheeran 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. An More…y feedback would be great, thanks! I have lots of other songs to add so watch this space!

Chords and lyrics to The Calling's Wherever You Will Go (recently re-arranged for TV advert) Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Chords and lyrics for Use Somebody - I recently used this for a Year 7 class with a reggae twist, they really enjoyed it and there is lots of scope for adding in a variety of instruments. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

McFly's Shine A Light On Her chords and lyrics arrangement - easily differentiated for lesser ability students. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

Chord layout to Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri with optional key signatures. Any feedback would be great, thanks!

A series of facts associated with either Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, John Williams and Thomas Newman. Students research online to work out which fact is associated with which composer. Facts taken from Wikipedia.

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.

Work out whether the statements in the document are associated with Weelkes, Haydn or neither/another vocal set work.

Teacher and student copy of the performance directions - task is for students to find them in the score.

Put the musical checkpoints in order. Make sure to delete the numbers in the far right hand column before handing out to students!

At the bottom of the sheet are numbers - fill in the statement of the various set works with the appropriate number. The actual list is at the bottom of the page so don't forget to remove that before handing out to students! Also, please make sure to check the numbers - I have a feeling one or two may not be correct!

Work out the answers to the questions (all of which are numbers) and put them in ascending order. Based on facts from the AS Music Study guide.

This is a series of checkpoints to break up the Beatles track. Students can cut them out and put them in order or number them according to the order.

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.

Cut up the pictures of the instruments for pupils to put back together in a puzzle. Other instruments can be added and can be used as a starter for Year 7s or a fun activity for Year 9s in a multi-tasked lesson.

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!

Musical checkpoints of Koko Yiri. The answers are filled in on this sheet so make sure they're deleted before handing them out!