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A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.

Why Musical School?

Musical School is an award-winning primary music education program housed within Charanga’s configurable music teaching and learning platform. Follow a Scheme or access over 25,000 Charanga resources, creative tools, and more to deliver high-quality curriculum music in your school. Mix and match anything with your own uploaded materials, ready to share with your students.

Charanga’s Schemes

Follow one Scheme, mix and match or build your own

Charanga Schemes support your music teaching in any context. They’re structured around units and steps that support your lesson planning and delivery across the year, but flexibility is key. Follow one Scheme of Work step-by-step, mix and match units from different Schemes, or build your own. You decide.

The Creative Music Scheme

Charanga’s latest curriculum capitalises on students’ natural affinity for creativity. Unlike conventional schemes, industry-leading digital tools are built into every lesson to amplify every child's creative voice, from Nursery onwards. Every unit in the Scheme is easy to teach, offers flexibility to match your teaching style, and the planning support is straightforward.

Build your own Scheme

Teachers can create and share a unique, customised learning pathway for their school using the program’s Scheme builder tool, combining Charanga resources, lessons or units with their own.

Freestyle

A vast, growing library of music resources

Charanga’s Freestyle library provides a more flexible approach. Access a range of resources, tools, song-based units, and song and video projects to use alongside your own uploaded materials. Use them as an alternative to a Unit of Work in a Charanga Scheme or as part of your own custom-built primary music curriculum.

Selected highlights from the Freestyle library

Creative tools

YuStudio is a full-featured digital audio workstation (DAW) specifically designed for education. Students can use the DAW to make music whenever they're online. A series of 'Create With YuStudio' Projects supports them in learning how to arrange and mix their own compositions.

Quickbeats is a drum machine that enables users to create rhythms, beats, and loops using a variety of kits, while Music Notepad offers a great way to learn about the written language of music and music theory.

Rhythm Grids introduces students to simple and compound time signatures, while Music Explorer supports various musical activities, including improvisation and notation use.

Charanga’s Musical Toolkit supports the learning and understanding of generic musical ideas and terminology, while Percussion Writer allows users to play along with excerpts from famous works or create their own percussion pieces.

Wellbeing

Resources include activities designed to help children recognise, manage and express their feelings. For example, the Mindful Tune-ups collection offers bite-sized, preparation-free music and mindfulness activities for children to explore. All can be used as stand-alone projects or revisited regularly.

Assemblies Alive from Starshine

Access everything you need for a primary school assembly in one place. Each resource contains an engaging story to capture children's attention, thought-provoking points for reflection and discussion and an inspiring song to reinforce the assembly’s theme.

Charanga Sing

The Charanga Sing section features content organised and curated for different teacher and student types or purposes, including assemblies, topic-based collections and songs with cross-curricular links and connections. Song guides are included, covering all musical aspects of the song, such as key, pitch, song type, structure, and length, as well as warm-ups, activities, hints, and tips. You can also upload your favourite songs to My Workspace to use alongside ours.

Instruments

Resources for popular classroom instruments

Access interactive resources for all popular classroom instruments, courses and units. All are designed to extend learning and can be used as part of your music curriculum or as enrichment activities.

Supporting inclusive practice

The resources in Musical School’s SEND section support musical activities and learning with younger children and students with special educational needs or disabilities. They are appropriate for a range of settings, including special schools, alternative provision, and mainstream schools, catering to all ages and abilities.

Every resource in the section can be combined with other content and materials on the Charanga platform or your own. Charanga’s Anyone Can Play SEND Scheme provides an accessible set of progressive units, complete with lesson plans.

Yumu for Students

A secure online learning space for students

Teachers can use Charanga’s password-protected student-facing workspace, Yumu, to support students’ music-making and learning in and outside the classroom, as well as at home.

Setting up whole classes with usernames and passwords is a quick and easy process. Sharing resources with students and supporting their music-making via Yumu is effortless.

My Workspace

The My Workspace area of the website is a secure space in which teachers store, collect and organise their teaching resources, manage their students’ and colleagues’ access to our platform, create lessons, upload assessment evidence, and more.

Support and guidance

To ensure you get the most from our platform, Charanga’s CPD & Training team will provide you with support. The Charanga Connect service enables you to schedule a one-on-one, personalised meeting with your designated representative at a time that suits you. To learn more about specific resources on the platform, you can register for free Charanga Spotlights webinars. If you have any questions, please contact the training team at training@charanga.com.