Sounds That Make Me Smile – Music To Support Our Wellbeing, Improve Focus and Promote Calm
12th November 2025
This episode of the Music Education podcast, sponsored by Charanga, explores how sound can enhance wellbeing.
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Blog posts by category: Musical School
Mindful Tune Ups – Rediscovering the Lost Art of Listening
2nd July 2025
Mindfulness is not a new concept in music education. It is more vital than ever. We examine why mindfulness is essential to the music-making process.
Inclusive primary school music lessons: busting myths about Charanga.
18th November 2024
Creating engaging, inclusive primary school music lessons: busting myths about Charanga. A tongue-in-cheek Q&A about the music teaching and learning [...]
The ILP – supporting personalised musical learning
3rd October 2024
The ILP supports students’ independent music learning and progression. Used by teachers to spark conversations, encourage musical exploration and set [...]
The Schools Printed Music Licence – a simple solution for photocopying sheet music in your school
15th March 2024
Written by Viki Smith, PMLL. A Schools Printed Music Licence (SPML) ensures teachers can legally copy and use sheet music in the classroom. [...]
100s of children come together for Sing St Albans
25th March 2021
Around 750 children and their families from primary schools across St Albans and Harpenden took part in the recent Sing St Albans project – the [...]
Complimentary music resources for teachers to use and share
11th January 2021
In these difficult times, having the best online materials is more important than ever. To help you, we want to give you some lovely FREE music [...]
Heart-warming song & video project encourages students to focus on positive thoughts and actions
23rd November 2020
As parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and teachers, we were so touched by It’s OK (Please Just Say) that we had to share it – with our teaching [...]
Great news if you’re putting on a Charanga / Starshine Music production
17th November 2020
Unlike other resources on our platform, if you are planning to stage a musical or to record one, you’ll need a Public Performance Licence from the [...]
Teachers turn to Yumu to deliver hybrid, blended and home learning – at no extra cost
21st October 2020
In light of further COVID restrictions and any potential deeper lockdown, a reminder that you can use Yumu (the children’s area of the Charanga [...]
Music and Me: exciting new unit focuses on inspirational women in music
20th April 2020
While we understand that life is far from normal at the moment, we wanted to let you know that those teaching students in their final primary year [...]
Supporting our valued teaching community and partners
3rd April 2020
Even before schools closed to contain the spread of coronavirus, our teaching community (40,000+ teachers) was using Yumu, our online learning space [...]