A wide range of Primary classroom activities, reviews and resources has been developed and published over the years originally by MAPE and, more recently since the merger in 2004, by Naace.

Paul Williamson has spent a great deal of time empowering teachers in different subjects to use their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) effectively. The successes have become increasingly apparent with every area of the school moving forward rapidly.

Andy Pierson of ESP explains how ICT can support teachers in the classroom who are nervous about singing or playing an instrument in front of the class.

Taking the seaside as a theme Andy Pierson of ESP describes ways in which music can be effectively integrated into this popular Key Stage 1 topic.

Andy Pierson of ESP describes how the KS2 weather topic provides many opportunities for using descriptive language to explain different weather features. In this activity we will create an imaginary weather diary using weather symbols each of which has some music to go with it.

I shared several comments from colleagues in the last issue of Sharing Success on the end of school web-sites (for sharing educational material). The conversations and opinions developed into a really interesting thread - with colleagues contributing factual and objective views ....

What constitutes a good lesson? Is it good preparation, planning and assessment? Does it have to cover all the strands in the National Literacy or Numeracy Strategies? How can what the children have experienced be measured?

The idea for the 'sing-a-round event', which is part of the Oracle Education Foundation's 'Let's Play 2008 Project' I have been leading, came from bumping into Maurice Walsh from Manchester's Music service whilst working with one of the project schools. He asked about the project and as he had links in Beijing was there any way we could add another event that involved sharing singing between schools.