Primary Music Leader’s Handbook (Inspiring ideas)

I know schools quite often have limited budgets to spend on music activities and the like now so you see teachers relying on a lot of YouTube content etc. This book gives a range of great ideas for musical activities with kids and is a welcome source of extra inspiration - our Early Years teachers were really pleased when we took this in for them to use.

If you are the primary music leader then this book is perfect for you.It has some really useful chapters especially how to support your colleagues with music and organising shows and performances.I think it will definitely be beneficial going forward.

From CONCLUSION (image below refers):📝‘In this book, we have covered how to identify your vision for music in your school and how to link this to your School Improvement Plan and get buy-in from your colleagues, children and parents......Having read this book, you may now want to take some time to reflect on what needs to be done to develop and improve music in your school…’ooOoo~ TITLE: PRIMARY MUSIC LEADER’S HANDBOOK: INSPIRING IDEAS~ AUTHOR: DR ELIZABETH STAFFORD~ PUBLISHER: COLLINS MUSIC~ 2021ooOooMeasuring roughly 13 cm x 19.5 cm, the colourful card cover opens to 80 reasonable quality, matte finish pages, split over 8 main CHAPTERS, subdivided.The ‘LOOK INSIDE’ facility above gives an idea of the layout, handily including the expanded CONTENTS at the front.In quite a small print throughout, often on a grey background, it remains clear in the layout for the best part, IMO, and includes ‘KEY QUESTIONS’, ‘FURTHER READING’ recommendations & ‘TOP TIPs’, such as:📝~ ‘Don’t be afraid to ask your SLT for the time that you need ~ after all, there’s no point having a subject leader at all if they are not given the time to actually do the job!’From the back cover (image below refers):📝‘…“This is a real treasure-trove...packed with grounded practical advice and guidance to support music to thrive in every school.Dr Ally Daubney, Honorary Senior Lecturer (Education), University of Sussex”‘PRIMARY MUSIC LEADER’S HANDBOOK’ is the essential resource for any music subject leader working in a primary setting. It explains and supports with every aspect of the role ~ defining your vision, curriculum design, assessment, extra-curricular activities, performances, supporting colleagues ~ and much more besides.Dr Elizabeth Stafford is an internationally-recognised music education expert with over two decades' experience as a primary music teacher in numerous school and local authority settings.’A BIBLIOGRAPHY + FURTHER READING winds up the book.12 images attached © HarperCollinsPublishers/2021

Primary Music Leader’s Handbook (Inspiring ideas)Good quality book, it's pretty small. Black and white print and the text is pretty small however provided you have good eyesight or good glasses then overall its a good quality book with alot if useful content.

Great little handbook that despite its small size is proving invaluable to our teacher eldest daughter. Four stars.