BBC Teach
- BBC Ten Pieces opens up the world of classical music to children. Explore inclusive films, lesson plans, resources and more for students with additional support needs (SEND/ ASN), students who are deaf or have hearing loss and students who are blind or partially sighted.
- Bring the Noise – SEND music teaching guides and tutorials: Deliver a story with songs, increase numeracy by using simple songs to teach and encourage children to explore music using objects and sensory materials.
- Bring the Noise – Songs in British Sign Language: Learn to sign and dance-a-long to the songs.
Sing up
Sing Up have some free resources to keep children learning and singing outside of school, including sign language and Makaton videos.
Drake Music
Drake Music are leaders in music, disability and technology. They champion new and innovative ideas for accessible musical instruments, aiming to broaden the scope of what is available to young disabled and non-disabled musicians. In delivering music education and participatory music-making sessions, they make use of these instruments, traditional instruments and existing assistive and accessible music technology.
Chrome Music Lab
Chrome Music Lab makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. Explore the free tools to create, make and compose.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The CBSO’s Education programme creates teachers packs and learning resources to accompany projects, providing teachers with creative ideas, practical music making activities, cross curricular learning opportunities and further listening suggestions. The Music and Ability pack contains ideas for activities and projects with children and young people with special educational needs.
National Teachers’ Choir
‘I’m Gonna Shine’ is a simple, 2-part song that has lovely actions to help convey the words. This song is free to access – you can stream or download various tracks, along with sheet music and lyrics, and a video clip showing optional Makaton signs.
Why not try out the harmonies at home and film yourselves singing this song together and share with the world?
Tuning In: Autism
Tuning In is a research project that supports music-making for autistic children and their families. their resources have been designed in collaboration with autistic families to support musical development and play
Music Mark SEND Resources
Music Mark is a membership organisation, Subject Association, and an Arts Council England Investment Principles Support Organisation (IPSO) advocating for excellent musical learning in and out of school.
Aurora Classroom
Aurora Classroom brings world-class musicians into your classroom in a digital platform carefully planned and developed by Aurora’s award-winning creative team and experienced teachers.
Soundabout
Soundabout is an award-winning, UK-based charity that believes that everyone should be able to access, experience, and enjoy music. For 30-years, the charity has been using the universal language of music, sound, and silence, to create meaningful opportunities for Learning Disabled people of all ages, particularly those with complex support needs*, to communicate, connect, and thrive.
Amber Sound Touch
A major new online resource for teaching music to a blind child. This superb teaching aid comprises 13 engaging videos complemented with a comprehensive written guide, dealing with important topics such as learning to play by ear, guidelines for appropriate touch in teaching technique, notation, improvising, practice and performance.