Music Team

This highly skilled and experienced service offers a broad range of professional development to support all aspects of music across all phases of education.

What we offer

Improving Teaching and Learning

We can: lead training and provide support for individuals, groups or whole school staff; support schools to develop and improve the quality of teaching and learning; support schools to provide a learning ethos…

Developing Leadership

We can: support curriculum and pastoral leaders; provide data to enable a better understanding of the local context; promote positive approaches to securing effective pupil voice; develop reflective practice and build capacity around…

Behaviour and Safety

We can: develop an understanding of the importance of nurture for pupils so that they are able to access the learning they are offered; Developing growth mindset principles across school. support schools to review…

Public Health Priorities

We can: provide clear links for schools with the key public health priorities; support schools to understand the contribution that they can make to improving  health and well-being; support schools to embed a whole…

Closing the Gap

We can: raise awareness of the needs of vulnerable pupils in school; develop evidence-based packages that focus on the needs of pupils on free school meals; support schools in enabling pupils to realise…

Purposeful Assessment for Learning

We can: support schools in ensuring teacher assessment procedures are robust; help schools develop an effective approach to marking and feedback; provide support for the development of strategies to support learning, such as…

Collaborative Developments

We can: provide advice and support for embedding of: Whole school initiatives such as literacy and numeracy across curriculum; science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM); Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND); high ability…

Developing Leadership

We can: support all levels of leadership with monitoring and evaluation activities such as focussed learning walks, work scrutiny or department reviews contributing to school self-evaluation and action planning; analysis of assessment data; joint observation…

Improving Teaching and Learning

We can: plan and deliver bespoke training to whole staff or small groups to enhance subject knowledge and explore the latest developments in teaching and learning; provide 1:1 support for individual staff through coaching…

Developing Core Subjects

We can: Support and advise core subject leaders in developing successful curricula, teaching and learning practice, assessment and monitoring systems; provide bespoke training on current and emerging pedagogical and curriculum challenges at key stages 3,…