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- A new way to teach creative music in Primary schools through your interactive whiteboard.
- Child-friendly activities guarantee clear musical outcomes, but give children control,
creating real ownership and achievement.
- So simple you can deliver a very effective programme, even if you feel unconfident about music.
Click on the questions below, to find out more…
Read What does ABC Online offer me and my class?
Features of ABC Online:
- ABC meets your curriculum and expressive arts targets and allows you to use creative music to explore interdisciplinary teaching of themes and topics.
- Colourful on-screen interactive activities help your children establish creative skills in lower primary, composing with animal noises, actions and percussion sounds.
Age-appropriate sounds and symbols develop in sophistication as children grow.
- In Middle Primary, your children start to work in groups with downloadable handouts, composing and performing with rhythm, pitch and words/lyrics.
- Powerful X-factor style auditions drives rehearsal, performance skills development and peer feedback, so your children become experienced and confident performers of their own music, unlocking the joy of social music-making for all children.
- Use our unique shape notation for rhythm- to allow all children to compose and perform their own rhythms from Year2/P3 onwards.
- If you are a Music Specialist, move between the easy-to-use shape notation and conventional rhythmic notation and the stave.
Read How does the ABC Creative Music Online support me as a Teacher?
We work hard to make these courses easy for busy teachers to use, by providing:
- Lesson plans written in simple language with clear layout.
- Everything you need to teach on the website.
- Teacher’s Guides offers loads of tips.
- A Support website with On-line Training videos and FAQs.
- Curriculum planning- with downloadable planning sheets for CFE. Planning sheets for the New National Curriculum will be available by the start of 2014-15 session-
- On-line Training videos.
- On-line traffic light assessment which you can save online and print out for reports on individual children or the whole class.
Read What do the ABC Online courses cover?
ABC Creative Music Online develops:
- Active listening skills, visual attention, gross and fine motor skills, language and social skills,
- Literacy and mathematical skills and concepts through the use of symbols and numbers .
- a sense of rhythm and pitch, as well as instrumental and singing skills.
The ABC Music for Reception/P1 course helps children:
- Explore sound and silence,
- Hear and perform different numbers of sounds,
- Explore a basic set of percussion instruments and their sounds,
- Choose and perform sounds and actions with a rhythmic count.
- Explore materials: what sounds can you make with paper?
ABC Music for Year 1/P2 helps children:
- Explore the musical concepts loud and soft, high and low (pitch) and fast and slow (tempo or speed)
- Perform with beats and bars at different speeds
- Explore a wider range of classroom percussion and a new set of percussion icons
- Learn to play chime bars and tuned percussion, composing some simple music as a group using animal symbols.
- Explore materials: What sounds can you make with things made from wood?
ABC Music for Year 2/P3 helps children:
- Develop their sense of pitch and rhythm further.
- Compose short sequences of music on untuned percussion and chime bars, performing them with a rhythmic count as a group.
- Conduct loud and soft sounds on percussion, and learning a song about loud and soft sounds.
- Compose longer sequences with a more complex structure.
- Explore materials: What sounds can you make with things made from plastic?
- Recognise different types of instruments and how they are played.
For a fuller description, see ABC Online for Lower Primary.
Read Do I need training?
ABC Online offer 3 levels of trainings (more info and costings on request):
1) Individual Online CPD:
- Included in the free online subscription, a self-training course allows you to watch online training videos and complete a self-assessment review.
- There are 6 teacher skills and concepts you need to know, to start teaching the programme effectively- called the ABC Core 6.
- These are covered in 6 short videos on our website, and there is lots of additional teacher support in the packs and online.
2) On-site CPD training delivered by ABC staff:
- CPD Training for ABC Music can be delivered on-site by ABC staff, and helps teachers to feel more confident when they start the programme.
- Our training programmes have been fine tuned over 12 years, and receive 91% approval ratings.
3) ABC training can also be delivered by a member of your own staff- using the Music Leader Program:
- The Music Leader Programme, allows you or another member of staff to run an ABC CPD session in your school, using multimedia and video delivered from our training website. (Available from April 2013)
- A 2-hour induction webinar or training session shows your Music Leader how to use the ABC training website. Then they can show training videos and multimedia, and download handouts and knowledge reviews, to run effective training on-site for all your staff.
“Easy to use, so great for a busy classroom. But most importantly, I’ve seen the growing confidence of children previously ‘turned off’ by music in school. They are having so much fun, they don’t realise they are learning.“
Kirstie Love, Primary Teacher, Queensferry Primary, Edinburgh
Find out more about ABC Online courses at different stages of Primary:
“
The ABC website transformed music in our school. The activities are fun and the children get a real sense of achievement from completing them. I love using the website as everything is at your fingertips – from clear instructions to the music needed for each activity.”
Jane Andrew, Class Teacher, East Ayrshire
