Two options are now available for Year 9, unit 3 in the summer term: EDM, and a brand-new 'Film and Animation' scheme. Just like the EDM scheme, 'Film and Animation' provides natural progression from year 9 unit 2, building on students’ understanding of the relationship between melody, harmony and texture. The new unit focuses on developing students’ manipulation of a range of compositional devices, their handling of consonance and dissonance in partnership with tempo, dynamics, textural density and complexity, the deployment and layering of ostinati, the voicing and arrangement of chords, use of sound and silence, stillness and movement, choices and combinations of timbre, providing students with plenty of room to demonstrate their musical understanding as skilled and imaginative composers and arrangers.

Some music departments are completely paper free at KS3. Some like mini whiteboards, some have notebooks printed to last the year, some like termly booklets. This series of resources is for those of you who find that your students benefit from having some things on paper. This isn't a book for marking - it's a rough book. Each notebook contains a few lines and manuscript for scribbling answers to listening exercises, annotating a line, notating pitch and rhythm, a reminder of key vocab grouped into elements, a few pictures to support staff notation and keyboard orientation, plus all the hands-on 'work it out in sound' materials you'll find in the slide packs.