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The site has been reorganised hopefully to make it easier to navigate, and more material has been added.

Working in a multilingual school with children from many nationalities and various levels of English, the First Thing music programme has been a brilliant way… Read More »Post from Helen Glass at Abingdon Primary

Videos on teaching a song have been added to give you additional support in teaching the songs, in the Videos 2 section.

Picking up Behaviour Hello to all the teachers taking part in the First Thing Music research project! We hope you’re enjoying the daily interludes of… Read More »On behaviour management/expectations

The videos for songs 5 and 6 have been added so please start to introduce these songs to your class.

A recent question arose in one school because the sessions have been going really well – “can colleagues come in to observe the sessions?”  Well,… Read More »Observers

We are now live to all the participants in the intervention group

Read this article on the BBC about Jimmy and his work with Kodály based music in Bradford https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45483930  

welcome to First thing Music This site is for teachers in the intervention groups and is password protected for the year of the project up… Read More »Welcome