​Musical Futures: it's the way we learn...

There are many different ways to learn music. 
We help teachers to think differently about how and why they teach it.  

​Children, no matter where they live in the world, love music.  That love of music brings with it a vast array of benefits.  Through music children develop social and personal skills, skills that are transformative and transferable to many other aspects of their lives both currently and into the future.

Musical Futures is a learner-led approach to the teaching and learning of music that promotes innovation, inclusion, diversity and lots and lots of music-making.
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Musical Futures leads the world in the development of accessible, engaging and relevant music programs that can be delivered sustainably to every student, class or school wherever they are in the world.  Read more ...


What we do

Training and professional development

​ We provide teachers around the world with training, support, networks and resources to deliver practical, engaging, developmental, pedagogically-grounded music programmes in the classroom.

In-School Workshops

Whether it's Arts Week or you enjoy inviting practitioners into your school to work with students, the Musical Futures International team offer a range of in-school workshops that will get your classes playing music straight away and even have material ready for performance within as little as an hour!

Our key approaches Everyone Can Play, Just Play and whole-class composing and songwriting form the basis of our in-school workshops and we will also leave you with all the resources your staff need to continue with the projects meaning that there is sustainability beyond our workshops that can be embedded into your music department.

​Consultancy

We model Musical Futures approaches with your classes and work with staff in a variety of areas including:
  • Setting up your space
  • ​Equipment and forward planning
  • Curriculum and assessment
  • Building an ethos of performing
  • Transition and building relationships between primary and secondary schools
  • Working with school leadership to grow the music department
  • Building a presence for the department
  • Engaging parents and the wider community
  • Being a Musical Futures champion school​​

Resource development

​Musical Futures International commissions, collects and distributes resources showing how teachers can deliver high quality, relevant music making projects and approaches in their classroom. All Musical Futures International materials and resources are available free of charge to those who attend our workshops*.

​Networking

​Musical Futures provides local and international networking opportunities.  You can join the MF International teacher network by clicking here.

Projects

Musical Futures works in partnership with other organisations to deliver new and exciting projects that enhance student and teacher engagement in music learning.  Musical Futures also participates in music education research that focuses on teacher workplace skills and learner engagement in the music classroom.

* Please note that in the UK, resources are both packaged as part of your participation in a workshop or can be purchased as a standalone item.

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