Monthly Archives: August 2011

Welcome to Issue 2 of The Music Jungle

The Music Jungle is published weekly and contains a mix of articles centred on the world of teaching music. In this issue, you will find articles about choosing songs for Keystage 2 and Keystage 1 for the beginning of the new … Continue reading

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Issue 2: Songs for the New School Year – Keystage 2

Finding a really catchy song that all the children will enjoy can be a bit of a challenge – especially when you are walking into a new school for the first lesson. These are some of my favourites for starting the … Continue reading

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Issue 2: Songs for the New School Year – Keystage 1

I’ve chosen a few of my favourite Keystage1 songs from the Singup website.  These have all been very popular with the children I work with, and provide plenty of scope for actions or using school percussion.  I have used a number … Continue reading

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Issue 2: The First (Wider Opportunities) Class Lesson of the Year

Hints and tips for helping things go smoothly… Every year, I remind myself of the Golden Rules, and every year, by about half-term, I wish I had remembered them and stuck to them. This year, I promise myself, will be … Continue reading

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Issue 2: The “Putting Your Clarinet Together” song

Teaching thirty-five children to put their clarinets together, simultaneously, is a real test of control;  your class-control skills, and the children’s self-control skills, never minding other important skills such as “listening to instructions” and even “following instructions”. You need to have … Continue reading

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Welcome to the first issue of The Music Jungle

The Music Jungle is an on-line music magazine, updated weekly, covering the world of teaching music. The articles represent the opinion of the writer, and every effort has been made to check the content, and details of prices, websites etc at … Continue reading

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Issue 1: Why “The Music Jungle”?

“Music”? Music is what I do for pleasure, and for a living. My days and evenings in term time are filled with listening to music, teaching music, talking about music, sharing music, and most importantly, playing music. So it seemed obvious the … Continue reading

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Issue 1: First keyboard lesson of the year with a Wider Opportunities class

Oh joy! This is one of my favourite lessons of term! This is the day that the children are introduced to their keyboards; let’s not kid ourselves that any formal music teaching is going to take place but it is … Continue reading

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