Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Music

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The ideal guide to planning the very best primary music lessons, for both new and experienced teachers. Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Music provides an easy-to-follow framework for all teachers - whatever your level of musical experience - to help you teach pupils to perform, listen to and most importantly enjoy music across a range of genres, styles and traditions. With tried-and-tested activities and lesson plans for Key Stages 1 and 2, this engaging guide will help you refresh your music teaching practice. Experienced music practitioners Jimmy Rotheram and Andrew Davidson present ideas for singing games, instrumental play and activities to help pupils recognise musical features and perform music themselves, based on tried-and-tested techniques. From resourcing and planning to teaching lessons, this all-in-one guide covers all the curriculum requirements and is filled to the brim with activities and advice for creating and exploring music with your class. Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics provide all the subject knowledge you need to deliver the primary curriculum with confidence. Written by experts, each book includes engaging lesson plans for teachers to implement in the classroom or across the whole school, together with key vocabulary, useful links, cross-curricular activities and much more.

Jimmy Rotheram is a primary music co-ordinator in a school in Bradford, and previously worked as a further education teacher and professional musician. After boosting academic achievement in his school through music, Jimmy was shortlisted for the Global Teacher Prize and awarded the 2017 Cecilia Vajda Memorial Scholarship as well as the 'unsung hero' award from AET Academies for his work as an advocate for music in primary schools. He has developed music resources for primary teachers in collaboration with the Nicola Benedetti Foundation. Follow Jimmy on Twitter at: @MusicEdu4all. Andrew Davidson is an Australian arts educator based in London. He holds degrees in music and theatre, and is a qualified teacher of Dalcroze and Kodaly music education. He has taught at all levels, from early childhood to adult education, and has presented at conferences and workshops in Europe, Asia, and North America. He has worked as a pianist and composer for theatre and dance, and as a stage director for opera and musical theatre. He was Head of Dramatic Arts at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) before relocating to the UK. Honours include a Queen's Trust and a Nadia Boulanger Award.