Our work supports educational settings to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum through music education, suitable for all age groups and tailored to each setting.
We include a wide range of practical activities embedding opportunities for contextualisation of knowledge and practical relevance.
Early Years
Rap + Rhyme
Explore traditional rhymes and poetry through hip-hop and modern musical genres.
- Children will develop listening skills through interactive Hip-Hop games.
Use familiar traditional rhymes to explore words, melodies and movement.
Develop vocabulary and confidence through group performances.
Primary school
What / How
Explore themes through music and performance using high quality diverse books through rap, lyrical devices and storytelling.
- Diverse books (Explore and Theme)
- Identity
- Vulnerability
- Heritage and community
- Music and performance
Outcomes
- Confidence
- Expand / build vocabulary
- Familiarity with rap and poetic devices
- Consolidate mathematical knowledge and skills
- Experience of teamwork and collaboration
- Build speaking and listening skills
- High-quality shared performance opportunity
- Enhanced knowledge of similes, metaphors, alliteration and rhyme
- Increased confidence in culture and identity
What / How
Explore links between poverty, rap and song in creative workshops and performance.
Outcomes
- Confidence
- Expand and build vocab
- Experience teamwork and collaboration
- High-quality shared performance opportunity
- Learn how to confidently write poems, raps and songs
- Enhanced rhyming and timing skills
- Opportunity to enhance skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar
What / How
Explore choice themes to raise aspirations and explore mental and physical wellbeing.
- Jobs and work
- Healthy eating
- Healthy friendships
- Bullying
- Social media
- Community and identity
- Body Image
Outcomes
- Confidence in identity
- Aspirational aims and values
- Better knowledge of mental wellbeing and self care
- Better knowledge of how to keep self and others safe on social media and the internet.
What / How
Use music software to create original music, compositions as well as write and record lyrics.
Outcomes
- Greater appreciation of musical genres
- Confidence in using computers and music software
- Increased knowledge of instruments
- Confidence using music terminology
- Confidence in using descriptive language
- Confidence using musical structures
- High quality performance opportunities
Our long term projects range from a week to a term. They can cover a number of topics and activities including making a music video, song arranging, lyric writing and performances.
Rap styles project
Explore Hip-Hop and rap styles through workshop and performance while tracing it’s evolution.
Music video project
A student lead project where they will write and record songs which will be shot as a music video.
Music Showcase
Workshops creating lyrics for a chosen theme building towards a showcase.
Hip-Hop Theatre Presentation
Workshops creating Hip-Hop adaptations of classic films and stories. This will be done through lyric writing, scriptwriting and, performance workshops.
Equipping educators to promote a culturally relevant and diverse curriculum.
- Using diverse books to support PSHE
- Designing a Black History Month Calendar
- History of UK Activism
- Inspirational women in Black history
- Freestyle games
- How to teach and use Hip-Hop nursery rhymes
- How to teach lyric writing
Secondary school /PRUs/ FE/HE
Youth settings
What / How
Explore themes through music and performance using high quality diverse books through music, rap, lyrical devices and storytelling.
- Diverse books (Explore and Theme)
- Identity
- Vulnerability
- Heritage and community
- Music and performance
Outcomes
- Confidence
- Expand / build vocabulary
- Familiarity with rap and poetic devices
- Consolidate mathematical knowledge and skills
- Experience of teamwork and collaboration
- Build speaking and listening skills
- High-quality shared performance opportunity
What / How
Explore links between poetry, rap and song in creative workshops and performance.
- Ladies First – Female rap workshops
- Hip-Hop and Poetry workshops
- Rap Workshops
Outcomes
- Confidence
- Expand and build vocab
- Experience teamwork and collaboration
- High-quality shared performance opportunity
- Learn how to confidently write poems, raps and song.
- Enhanced rhyming and timing skills
- Opportunity skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar
Presentations, discussions and workshop tailored to chosen topics.
- Lauryn Hill Masterclass
- History of female MC’s
- How to create a classic album
- Music Business workshop
- Industry guest
- History of Black music (UK /U.S/ Jamaica)
- History of female MCs
- History of rap
- History of Grime
Outcomes
- Deeper insight into the journey of a grammy award winning female artist
- Enhance knowledge of what it takes to create a project
- Expand and build vocabulary
- Experience of teamwork and collaboration
- Opportunity to network with industry guests
- Opportunity to receive practical steps with a music project
What / How
Explore a choice theme to raise aspirations and explore mental and physical wellbeing through lyric writing and performance.
- Jobs and work
- Do I go to university?
- Healthy eating
- Healthy Friendships
- Bullying
- Healthy social media lifestyle
- Community and Identity
- Body Image
- Knife and gun crime
- Sexual health
- Female sexuality and vulnerability
- Vulnerable girls group
- Challenging misconceptions and stereotypes
- OT – A workshop and discussion exploring the practice of young people going to the countryside from the inner city to engaging in illegal activity
- Inclusiveness and tolerance
- Substance and drug abuse
Outcomes
- Confidence in identity
- Building core values based on community
- Aspirational aims and values
- Better knowledge of mental wellbeing and self care
- Better knowledge of how to keep self and others safe.
What / How
Utilise music software to create original music. There will also be opportunities to write and record lyrics to compositions created. Also includes:
- Recording skills workshop
- DJ Workshops
Outcomes
- Greater appreciation of musical genres
- Confidence in using computers, DJ equipment and music software
- Increased knowledge of instruments
- Confidence using music terminology
- Confidence in using descriptive language
- Confidence using musical structures
- High quality performance opportunity
- Increased knowledge of timing.
Our long term projects range from a week to a term. They can cover a number of topics and activities including making a music video, song arranging, lyric writing and performances.
Rap styles project
Explore Hip-Hop and rap styles through workshop and performance while tracing it’s evolution.
Music video project
A student lead project where they will write and record songs which will be shot as a music video.
Music Showcase
Workshops creating lyrics for a chosen theme building towards a showcase.
Hip-Hop Theatre Presentation
Workshops creating Hip-Hop adaptations of classic films and stories. This will be done through lyric writing, scriptwriting and, performance workshops.
Equipping educators to promote a culturally relevant and diverse curriculum.
- Using diverse books to support PSHE
- Designing a Black History Month Calendar
- History of UK activism
- Inspirational women in Black history
- Freestyle games
- How to teach and use Hip-Hop nursery rhymes
- How to teach lyric writing
Black History
Primary / Secondary / Youth and community groups
Bespoke Historical projects exploring black cultures and heritage across a range of genres.
Literature – Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Bell Hooks, Akala, Angie Thomas
History – Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglass
Music – Folk, Blues, Jazz, R&B, funk, Hip-Hop, Soul, Neo-Soul, Grime, Drill, Trap
Art – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bandele Tex Ajetunmobi, Malick Sidibé
Bespoke packages available
- Workshops
- Songwriting
- Recording
- Workshop
- Presentation
- Project
- Music project
- Themes on diversity in Britain
- Workshop
- Presentation
- Empires
- Cultural awareness
- African music’s impact on culture
- UK
- Jamaica
- Half a day workshop / Bespoke at request
- African music’s impact on culture
- Workshop
- Presentation
- One off session
- 1 – 6 week project
- Bringing books to life with songs, raps and songwriting.
- Black History Month