Our Community

Lead by our core team the Musical Futures network exists to promote, nurture and develop best Musical Futures practice.

Open to all

Musical Futures provides a set of values, principles and practical teaching and learning strategies, rather than a fixed curriculum and so can be applied across a range education contexts. As a result our community of teaching professionals is truly international.

Whatever resources you have available and wherever your students are in their musical journey we think you’ll find a place for Musical Futures in your teaching programme.

Supported by our growing library of musical resources and training opportunities Musical Futures is already impacting more than half a million students a year.

Musical Futures community of teaching professionals

Champion Teachers

Our work would not happen without dedicated people behind it. Our Champion Teachers have embedded Musical Futures into their practice and support our Core Team in further developing our offering.

Alex Parsons

Bullers Wood School for Girls and Sixth Form

Leah Govier

Spratton Hall School, Northampton

Jane Werry

Hayes School, Bromley

Rosie Weatherley

Trinity Academy Leeds

Bethan Jenkins

Lewis School

James Tuck

Mayflower High School, Billericay

Sally Thomson

Thurstable School, Colchester

Caroline Stott

Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds

Stuart Shepherd

Broughton High School

Fiona Sexton

Flegg High Ormiston Academy

Fiona Sexton

Jay Stewart

Safa Community School

Jennifer Rotchell

Monk's Walk School, Welwyn Garden City

Sarah Ross-Shaw

Immanuel College, Bradford

Peter Romhany

Becket Keys CE School, Brentwood

Jon Reeves

Steyning Grammar, Steyning

Ted Ragg

Rawlins Academy, Loughborough

Matt Pasternakiewicz

Torquay Academy, Torquay

Sarah Pappin

Torquay Academy, Torquay

Andy McClean

Larbert High School, Falkirk

Liz Moran

Castleford Academy, Castleford

Emma Lamb

Moor Park High School and 6th Form, Preston

Beverley Harrison

Holy Cross Catholic High School, Chorley

Sally Garnett

Dane Royd Junior & Infants School, Wakefield

Lucy Dalton

Fred Longworth High School, Manchester

Luke Kemmett

The British School in the Netherlands, Den Haag

Lorrie Heagy

Glacier Valley Elementary School, Juneau

Kristina Carpenter

Outwood Adwick Academy, Doncaster

Claire Brown

Mounts Bay Academy, Penzance

Matt Bellingham

Norbridge Academy, Worksop

Jenny Proctor

Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow

We are always interested in creating opportunities for collaboration and co-development amongst our existing and new Champion Teachers.

Champion Teachers are at the heart of our organisation, supporting us in the ways outlined below and through their own networks.

If you are using Musical Futures in your classroom and feel you can add something to our community, we would love you to join our network.

The Role of the Champion Teacher

Developing Resources

We are always looking for our Champion Teachers to contribute ideas for new resources. Not only that, but we want to share the brilliant work you do in your classroom to keep active music making at the heart of the music classroom.

If you’re using Musical Futures approaches in your classroom, we’d love to find out what you’re doing and to involve you in developing and testing new resources as well as accessing opportunities to try out new resources as they become available.

Sharing Your Work

Our mission is to improve the quality of music education in classrooms, whilst making sure that it is relevant and engaging for young people.

There are many ideas about what constitutes a “good music education” and we feel that it is more important than ever to include teachers who channel those core principles of authenticity, engagement and informality that Lucy Green identified and that form a central part of our beliefs. To this end, we’re keen that our Champion Teachers share their work – either online or via social media channels so that we can encourage more teachers to put authentic, practical music-making at the heart of their classroom practice.

We also encourage Champion Teachers to share the story of their classrooms, schools, students and leadership experiences through blog posts to inspire other teachers and develop a shared understanding of what excellence in music education means to you.

Hosting Visitors

From time to time, we are contacted by international visitors, academics and other teachers requesting visits to schools where Musical Futures approaches can be seen in action. We ask our Champion Teachers to participate in this where practical.

If you’re as passionate as us and you believe you’d make a great Champion Teacher, then get in touch and we can discuss how you can get involved.

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Keep in touch with our network of teachers across the country who are using Musical Futures in the classroom.

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