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Discover Fully Resourced KS2 Primary Music Units That Inspire Every Lesson
Music teaching works best when the lesson starts with sound, movement, attention and curiosity, not with a last-minute hunt for a backing track or a rushed plan. That is the promise behind the new KS2/Primary fully-resourced music units from Musical Contexts: clear, classroom-ready support that helps every music lesson feel purposeful, creative and enjoyable. Primary music has a lot to do. It needs to build singing, listening, performing, composing, improvising, vocabulary, c

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3 days ago


Baseline Assessments
Baseline Assessment Tests for Years 7, 8 & 9 - available in MS and Google Forms and Paper/Hard Copy formats all ready for September...

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3 days ago


Music and Me Y7 Questionnaire
Music and Me Year 7 Questionnaire - GET YOURS NOW! Gathering feedback/data on what new pupils at the start of Year 7 have experienced in terms of music at primary schools, interest in music clubs, pupils who sing or play a musical instrument (lessons, instrument ownership, grades, etc.) and what pupils 'like' or an 'interested' in, in terms of their own music can be made simple with this Musical Contexts Music and Me Year 7 Questionnaire. Ideal to set as a homework task, savi

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5 days ago


Resources via Invoice
Resources are now available to order and be paid on invoice, either by BACS/CHAPS or International Bank Transfer featuring an easier fully-online and automated secure service. Simply select the Manual Payment at Checkout as an option making sure you've included the name and email of your school, college or academy.

Musical Contexts
Jun 22


"Thriller" Ensemble Performing
With the popularity of Michael in 2026, Musical Contexts offers a flexible performing arrangement of Thriller - perfect for those Year 9 groups at the end of the Summer Term! The Ensemble Performing Arrangements from Musical Contexts give instant 'play and go' three-part arrangements of musical classics designed for flexible ensemble performing in the music classroom. Each arrangement comes with a Lead Sheet giving treble clef melody line with chords and lyrics, a Full Score

Musical Contexts
May 27


Christmas Carols Keyboard Skills
Christmas Carols Keyboard Skills Volumes 1 & 2 from Musical Contexts contains treble clef melody line arrangements of 10 well-known Christmas Carols. Each carol is presented in four differentiated ways: (see sample images) treble clef single line staff notation and chords treble clef single line staff notation with fingering and chords treble clef single line staff notation with note names and chords treble clef single line staff notation with fingering, note names and chords

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Dec 7, 2025


Christmas Music Cover
With Christmas being one of the busiest times of the year in School Music Departments, the Musical Contexts Christmas Music Cover Packs 1 & 2 offer 10 different and varied activities that can be quickly and easily set as Music Cover Work over the festive season. All of the activities and tasks within the Christmas Music Cover Packs can be completed without ICT and therefore can be completed in 'non-music rooms' and come complete with answers, solutions and mark schemes. There

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Dec 1, 2025


Christmas Ensemble Classics
Christmas Ensemble Classics Volumes 1-3 from Musical Contexts are a flexible classroom ensemble performing series featuring accessible and playable arrangements of five well-known Christmas songs in each volume containing a Melody, Chords and Bass Line format, ideal for both Secondary/KS3 and Primary/KS2 music classrooms. https://www.musicalcontexts.co.uk/christmas Each of the five flexible arrangements comes with 10 Performing Sheets and Scores: Melody part with lyrics and c

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Nov 23, 2025


Paper-based Baseline Assessment Tests
Baseline Assessment Tests for Years 7, 8 and 9 now available in paper-based formats Music Baseline Assessments | Musical Contexts

Musical Contexts
Oct 8, 2025


New "All About the Bass" KS3 Unit
"All About the Bass" has now been updated to a new 6 x lesson fully-resourced unit within the 99 Zone. If you've not got 99 Zone access,...

Musical Contexts
Sep 19, 2025


Music and Me Y7 Questionnaire
Data collection from new Year 7 pupils made easy: Music and Me Year 7 Questionnaire . Available as both MS and Google Forms and Hard Copy...

Musical Contexts
Aug 27, 2025


New "Keyboard Skills" KS3 Music unit
"Keyboard Skills" has now been updated to a new 6 x lesson fully-resourced unit within the 99 Zone.

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Aug 25, 2025


New "Rhythm and Pulse" KS3 unit
"Rhythm and Pulse" has now been updated to a new 6 x lesson fully-resourced unit within the 99 Zone. If you've not got 99 Zone Access, grab it here...

Musical Contexts
Aug 25, 2025


Newly-updated Secondary KS3 Music unit - Form and Structure
All of the Secondary KS3 Music units are undergoing a huge revision and update! Along with the new "Back in Time to the Popular Music...

Musical Contexts
Aug 16, 2025


Free Resource - Old NC Music Level Descriptors
Not sure if these will be helpful to anyone, or bring back the old terrors of "NC Level Descriptors", but found these in the depths of...

Musical Contexts
Aug 12, 2025


Newly updated Primary KS2 Music Unit
Purpose : This unit explores musical styles in Britain during the 1930’s and 1940’s and focuses on popular music during the Second World...

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Aug 8, 2025


Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 - Knowledge Organiser
For those using the new Musical Contexts Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 KS3 unit, there's now a supporting Knowledge Organiser...

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Aug 5, 2025


Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 - 5 Minutes Reading
6 x 5 Minute Reading Activities For those enjoying the new Musical Contexts Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 KS3 unit, there's...

Musical Contexts
Aug 2, 2025


IGCSE AoS1 Listening Questions
This pack of 10 GCSE-style Listening Questions can be used to support IGCSE Music Area of Study 1 - Baroque Music focusing on Baroque...

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Mar 11, 2025


Concerto OCR GCSE Listening Questions
This pack of 10 GCSE-style Listening Questions can be used to support OCR GCSE Music (9-1) Area of Study 2 - The Concerto through Time. ...

Musical Contexts
Mar 7, 2025
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