Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Learning Resources

Hello and welcome to BCMG's Learning Resource Hub. These resources are for young people, students, parents/carers, teachers, and researchers. A large number of the resources are focused on supporting young people to compose but you will also find research and evaluation reports, resources about careers in the arts, and resources to support Arts Award. To find resources relevant to you, you can either use the search function below or click on a Collection. To reset search options, just use back space in the box to delete and to return to Home, click on the BCMG logo. We are delighted to be able to make the resources free but would ask that you credit BCMG if you use them.

For more information about BCMG's Learning & Participation programme please email learning@bcmg.org.uk

Featured Resources

Collections

Listen Imagine Compose Primary

This collection of resources have been developed as part of the action research project Listen Imagine Compose Primary

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Composing at Home (Children)

Fun composing activities for young people that can be done at home with or without instruments. 

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Composing for Specific Instruments

Resources designed to support composing for particular musical instruments (oboe, flute, viola, violin, cello, saxophone, trumpet, bassoon and bansuri)

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Composing at Home (Young Instrumentalists)

Fun composing activities for young people who play a musical instrument. 

 

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BCMG Project Reports and Other Resources

BCMG project reports, inclusion strategy and careers in the arts resources.

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Composing at KS1 & 2 (Teachers)

A collection of resources for primary school teachers with practical activities to support children composing at KS2 inspired by curricula themes and by contemporary music.

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Exploring Composing KS3/4/5 (Teachers)

This collection of resources explores pedagogic strategies for teaching and learning composing in secondary schools and draws from BCMG's Exchanging Notes project.

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Composing with Contemporary Music (Teachers)

Composing resources for KS2/3 using contemporary classical music as a starting point.

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Composing with WCET (Teachers)

Composing activities to use with groups of beginner instrumentalists up to Grade 3.

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