We’ve really appreciated all your feedback over the past year, please keep it coming. As a result of what you’ve told us, we’re providing a new updated Scheme for 2017-18. Don’t worry, the existing Scheme will still be available but we hope you’ll move on to the 2017-18 one and take advantage of all the improvements.
If you are planning for the autumn term, or just curious to see how the new scheme is laid out, then click the following link to open a printable PDF grid.
Overview of the New Scheme for 2017-18 (opens in new window).
Two lovely new units ‘Your Imagination’ and ‘The Friendship Song’
Updates to the existing units to build in more progression
Christmas productions moved into the Freestyle library alongside some new ones
Three new units - ‘Bringing Us Together’, ‘Blackbird’ and another one we’ll be announcing shortly
Updates to the musical games in the existing units to help with progression and to give you more variety
Revised glock courses to build in more challenge and pace to the progression
Christmas productions moved into the Freestyle library
The Benjamin Britten songs - ‘There Was A Monkey’ and ‘Cuckoo’ moved out of the Scheme altogether and into the Freestyle library
Four new units - ‘Happy’, ‘Dancin’ In The Street’, ‘I’ll Be There’ and ‘You’ve Got A Friend’ - all with brilliant new Bronze, Silver and Gold level musical games and improvisation
Christmas productions moved into the Freestyle library and the flexible Jazz units moved into the Christmas half term
Britten’s ‘A Tragic Story’ moved out of the Scheme and into the Freestyle library
Throughout Years 1-6 updates to the musical games and improvisation in the existing units to build in more progression
And…
Across the board - you will see a great new feature that allows you to slow down songs while keeping the pitch the same. We hope you’ll find it useful when teaching the more challenging songs in particular.
