Featured lessons, resources and news
Wider opps, Note Names, printable scores and hip hop videos
Latest additions to the site: 1. inspira, term 2 for supporting Wider Opportunities teaching 2. Many of the SMILE resources now contain the option to switch the score to show note names or no... Read the complete article
St Andrew's Day music resources
Celebrate the 30th November with this week's Primary featured lesson including: Coulter's Candy - traditional Scottish folk song sung by a female singer, accompanied by guitar and fiddle. A ... Read the complete article
Welcome Back!
We hope you have had a great summer and are ready for the exciting school year ahead. Whilst you have been away there have been lots of interesting developments at Charanga. One of which is ... Read the complete article
How long since you've been on a bear hunt?
We have thousands of ICT teaching and learning resources for music, including non-musical stimuli to encourage voice development and composition. Inspiring and engaging stories, fairy tales, myths ... Read the complete article
Space Day
Space Day on the 1st May aims to nurture young people's enthusiasm for the wonders of the universe and inspire them to continue the stellar work of today's space explorers. This week's KS2-3 f... Read the complete article
Painting with Sound
This week's featured resource packs include inspiring Films on Art from The Roland Collection. These provide an engaging and exciting stimulus for children, perfect for historical or cultural c... Read the complete article
Traditional Irish music resources for St. Patrick's Day
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day we have put together 2 lesson resource packs featuring great traditional Irish music. Primary featured lesson includes: Story of St. Patrick What Shall We ... Read the complete article
Rap while you shout about the environment
We're supporting 'Shout about' - Friends of the Earth's annual activity week (2-6 March), this year focussed on finding solutions to climate change with your local community. This week's KS2... Read the complete article
Bring the orchestra into your classroom
Today's featured resource is 'The Orchestra' - a versatile interactive wallchart with text, images, quiz and real audio clips to help broaden Primary children's knowledge and hone their listening s... Read the complete article
Go Bananas
We're supporting Fairtrade Fortnight (23 Feb-8 Mar) - this year The Fairtrade Foundation are planning to set a new world record for people eating Fairtrade bananas! So to get your pupils going b... Read the complete article