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Invoice Orders
Musical Contexts is now accepting invoice orders from schools, colleges and academies for ALL products and resources, including 99 Zone Access and add-on extras. Download the "Invoice Order Form" from the link below to request resources that will be paid for via BACS/CHAPS/Bank Transfer.
Music Cover Resources
Music Festivals, Music Puzzles, My Music, Elements of Music, Comprehensions, Music 'Passports', General Music Cover Activities and even two packs of Christmas Music Cover work! Musical Contexts has all your planned and emergency music cover work ready for you, including any unexpected room moves or dreaded 'silent' music lessons in exam time.
KS3 Unit Quizzes/Knowledge Tests
Covering a range of popular KS3 Music units, these unit quizzes and knowledge tests can be used to assess understanding of key musical concepts and are available in MS-Forms and Google Forms formats. Each quiz is worth 25 points and is in two sections: Musical Knowledge and Critical Engagement: Listening and Appraising with links to You Tube videos.
5 Minutes Readings - Music Literacy
The 5 Minutes Reading series from Musical Contexts provides key musical knowledge on a range of popular KS3 Music topics, units and genres in an easily laid-out format which can be used flexibly in a range of different contexts such as 'silent' lesson starters/intro quizzes/DOITNOWs, cover activities, homework tasks, revision of musical knowledge, developing literacy and reading in music lessons.
Ensemble Performing Arrangements
Each flexible ensemble performing classroom arrangement comes with a Lead Sheet with treble clef melody, lyrics and chords, a Full Score (melody, chords and bass line), Parts (with and without note names and a B flat melody part) and Information Sheet. Arrangements include tempo, dynamics and articulation markings as appropriate.
Music Baseline Assessments
The Years 7, 8 and 9 Online Digital Music Baseline Assessment Tests, available in both MS-Forms and Google Forms formats, provide instant, paper-free assessments to gain instant data at the start of a new year/term. They can also be used at the end of term/year as a summative assessment test.
There's also a FREE summary/overview and two FREE Year 7 Baseline Listening Assessments.
MS-Forms Quizzes
A range of online, digital, self-marking MS-Forms Quizzes that can be used as Knowledge Tests or Assessments. Includes the Years 7, 8 and 9 Musical Contexts KS3 unit bundles, History, Cadenza Music Theory, Year 7 Online Digital Music Baseline Assessment Test and the Year 7 Music and Me Questionnaire.
Google Forms Quizzes
A range of online, digital, self-marking Google Forms Quizzes that can be used as Knowledge Tests or Assessments. Includes the Years 7, 8 and 9 Musical Contexts KS3 unit bundles, History, Cadenza Music Theory, Year 7 Online Digital Music Baseline Assessment Test and the Year 7 Music and Me Questionnaire.
Music History
Inside Baroque, Classical and Romantic Music Forms Quizzes, WCT Music History Knowledge Organisers and History of Music WCT Comprehensions - essential resources for supporting your teaching and your pupil's learning of music history of the Western Classical Tradition at KS3, GCSE/KS4 and AS and A-Level/KS5.
Music Theory
Cadenza: The Musical Contexts Guide to Music Theory, comes in a series of 15 fully-resourced lessons formed of 3 Resource Packages and 3 sets of Forms Quizzes assisting you to incorporate Music Theory into lessons - ideal as 'Step up to GCSE Music'. There's also Music Dictation Exercises and Musical Signs and Symbols (which can be used as Cover)
Admin and Planning
The Musical Contexts Music Department Handbook provides a fully customisable and editable document particularly useful for new teachers in schools without such a document in place. There are also several FREE resources here, such as the 99 Zone KS2 and KS3 Learning Journeys Templates and the Baseline Assessments Overview.