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The English National Opera’s new music making programme for KS2
Finish This... invites your class to be ENO Composers, tasking them with the mission to respond to, and resolve, a purposefully unfinished operatic piece titled ‘Blue, Red, Yellow…’ A unique musical starting point for your pupils to embrace their imaginations, experiment with sound, and create new colour worlds and stories – all through the lens of opera.
Finish This... is co-created with teachers, artists and learning specialists, and packed with KS2 curriculum learning links.
Programme package:
- A short film, especially commissioned for young audiences, presenting the operatic piece
- Music making films for the classroom
- Online Teacher CPD
- Scheme of work and supporting CPD films
- ENO Composer badges and certificates
- Templates & Tips on how to bring your music to life through extension activities
Free to all state primary schools nationwide.
Easy to understand lesson plans and videos which guided teachers of all experience and musical levels. – Teacher from Icknield School, Luton
It was great that it felt like the children’s composition, not simply something that they were given to perform or adapt. – Teacher from Rushey Green Primary School, London
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Pupils will:
- Develop their musical listening and appraisal skills
- Develop self-confidence, independent thinking, and skills such as resilience and compromise
- Be supported to express their personalities and creative ideas – there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’
- Record their end musical product, celebrating their achievements through collaborative work
Teachers will:
- Develop confidence in delivering composition work
- Be supported to explore child-led approaches to music learning
- Access opera-inspired digital resources and training materials, co-designed by primary specialists and teachers and artists
- Have flexibility in how they choose to deliver the programme
Read more about the pilot programme
There are so many skills that were developed alongside the music, and I think that was really powerful – Teacher from Bushmead School, Luton
It has been fantastic! The children had so much fun – every step was accessible to them and allowed them to show their own personalities through their creativity. – Teacher from All Souls C of E Primary School, London
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