Cultivating Creativity Through Music: Resources

Delegates and guests have access to download presentations and resources from the sessions at the 2025 Conference through this page. These will be made available over the summer into the next academic year.

Find a resource:

Opening session

• National Update – Gary Griffiths from Music Mark

Workshops

• Courageous Creativity in KS2 – Supporting a diverse and inclusive approach to curriculum design
• Courageous Creativity in KS3-5 – Supporting a diverse and inclusive approach to curriculum design
• Creative Approaches to Active Listening – Vicki Brown
• Exploring Strengths and Challenges of Neuro Differences: Benefits of creative, inclusive design – Triple A Performer 
• Inclusive Progression Routes into the Music Industry – Inspire Youth Arts
• Measuring Musicality: Creative approaches to assessment in Primary Music – Liz Rozier
• Moving from the Mechanical to the Creative - Helen Temple
• Music all Day Long - Musical development for EYFS through play-based activity – Sue Nicholls
• Music Technology Highlights: 2025 and Beyond! – Ben Sellers

Pupil voice

• Why We Do What We Do

Case studies by Lead Schools

• Can innovative approaches to oracy, literacy, behaviour for learning and cognitive flexibility take centre stage in the inclusive musical classroom? – Caroline Cawley, Forest Fields School in Nottingham City

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National Update

Gary Griffiths from Music Mark

• Schools can join Music Mark

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Creative Approaches to Active Listening

Vicki Brown

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Exploring Strengths and Challenges of Neuro Differences: Benefits of creative, inclusive design

Triple A Performer

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Inclusive Progression Routes into the Music Industry

Inspire Youth Arts

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Measuring Musicality: Creative approaches to assessment in Primary Music

Liz Rozier

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Moving From the Mechanical to the Creative

Sue Nicholls

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Music all Day Long: Musical development for EYFS through play-based activity

Sue Nicholls

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Music Technology Highlights: 2025 and Beyond!

Ben Sellers

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Why We Do What We Do

A video presentation which brings together clips of young people from a variety of educational settings across the East Midlands, sharing their honest, heartfelt reflections on their experiences with music education.

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Can innovative approaches to oracy, literacy, behaviour for learning and cognitive flexibility take centre stage in the inclusive musical classroom?

Caroline Cawley, Forest Fields School in Nottingham City

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