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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

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

"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,...

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...

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

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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. ...

Completing the Musical Contexts trilogy exploring Baroque, Classical and Romantic Music. Inside Romantic Music Resource Pack is now...

The third and final part of Cadenza Part 3 - The Musical Contexts Guide to Music Theory is now live and online! Five fully-resourced ...

The  Eduqas GCSE Music (9-1) Areas of Study Listening Quiz  provides both an ideal introduction for Year 10's or as a valuable revision...

Inside Classical Music Resource Pack  from  Musical Contexts  provides a fully-resourced set of activities on all aspects of music...

Musical Time Travel Passport  is part of the  Musical Contexts Music Passport  series which encourages pupils to research and record...

Wicked Part 1 Keyboard Skills  from  Musical Contexts  contains treble clef melody line arrangements from 5 selected songs as featured in...

Musical Contexts has created its own page of resources to support the Cambridge IGCSE Music specification. Further resources to support...

Cadenza  is a fully-resourced 15-part  Musical Contexts Guide to Music Theory . Ideal for KS3 as a ' Step up to GCSE Music ' theory...