JustPlay

• Explore ways to deliver outstanding lessons and ensure that students are fully engaged in lessons
• Build confidence in teaching drums, guitar, bass, keyboard and ukulele
• Examine curriculum and classroom approaches that ensure students are developing knowledge through immersion in practical activities
• Develop classroom approaches that provide a catalyst to involve all students, including disadvantaged groups in music making
• Learn how to build essential performance skills amongst students that will promote achievement and attainment in music

Building Skills: Explore how to develop instrumental skills in a whole class setting and how this approach can foster outstanding learning in your own classroom

Performing: Perform a range of current popular songs and discover how the resources can be used to scaffold learning and develop performance skills allowing all learners to engage and achieve, whatever their level of ability

Next Steps: Explore the best way to implement JustPlay in your classroom/department and gain practical advice from teachers on how to ensure that this approach can promote outstanding teaching and learning

Developing JustPlay: Ideas for further developing essential musical skills using the Just Play resources as the basis for improvising and composing linked to key Musical Futures pedagogy

The course fee is £149 and includes:

• 12 months Premium membership to Musical Futures Online classroom resources
• Tea, coffee and light refreshments

• Primary class teachers who don’t consider themselves to be music specialists.
• Primary and secondary music specialists – JustPlay is a great start to build on existing musical knowledge whilst developing confidence in playing as an ensemble
• Instrumental teachers – JustPlay can be adapted by teachers engaged in small group or Whole Class Learning

• Based in a school setting – a chance to see another department/school in action
• An opportunity to see a class in action (where possible)
• Led by experienced classroom teachers
• All of our courses are designed to give you the confidence, knowledge and resources to start delivery in your school the following day!
• An opportunity to network with other music teachers

“The session was delivered with a clear passion and enthusiasm for music making and its pedagogy, which was entirely infectious. The resources have clearly had a huge amount of time spent on both their design and creation. Genuinely a brilliant session, thanks for organising it!”

“This was a fantastic day, giving me lots of ideas and reinvigorating how I approach things. It will influence our schemes of work and how they are delivered massively right from Year 7 upwards.”