The Freestyle library of resources and the Song Centre are being used more and more by teachers who enjoy the flexible approach. We’re improving it for 2017-18 based on your feedback about things you would like to see.
The new Listening Centre is a colourful collection of 175 pieces of music covering a wide range of periods, styles and genres.
All the pieces in the Listening Centre have supporting information and onscreen prompts to help focus, extend and enrich the listening experience.
The repertoire is grouped by periods such as Baroque (1600-1750) or Classical (1750-1820) ideal for exploring stylistic traits or linking to historical events, and by styles and genres, perhaps to familiarise your pupils with a specific type eg Motown or for examples of music written for a specific purpose.
You’ll be able to use the repertoire in the new Listening Centre to enhance any lesson or to create your own playlists using the lesson-building feature.
In our new upgraded Song Centre we’re trying to make it quicker and easier to find songs for a particular purpose. We’re offering more categorisation such as style, target age group, subject matter and other things. We are of course continuing to add new songs.
‘Bumper Harvest’ and ‘The Match Girl’s Christmas’ are two music productions we’ve just added to Musical School and we will add more over the course of the year.
We’ve looked at which resources teachers in special schools most use in their teaching. In the new Freestyle SEND section, we are putting all these resources in this one place so that if you’re teaching children and young people with SEND you’ll be able to get quickly to the resources that work best.
The SEND area is one we will continue to add to over the coming year.
