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REGULARS 5 Editorial 6 News 9 Diary 14 Expo 2025 programme
Sessions, events and timings for the two-day event 19 Expo 2025 preview
Meet the exhibitor: Anne Margaret Smith, founder of ELT well 44 Online teaching materials
A preview of February’s resources 47 Column: ISM
New resources for the National Curriculum 48 Column: health and wellbeing
How the charity Creative United can ease the pressure when buying an instrument
FEATURES 21 Early Career Teacher experience
Developing teacher Adam Clarvis started his career as the school’s only musician. What would he have done differently? 26 Representation in class music
Positive role models are essential for young people to aspire and progress.
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51 Column: tech
Dom Sigalas gets under the bonnet of Steinberg’s Verve felt piano and what it can mean for compositions 54 Reviews
MT reviewers assess Yamaha’s Stagepas PA system, a Musicbuds course on DEI, and sheet music Open String Tunes 57 New products: tech
Kate Rounding’s top picks for the month 63 Quick tips
Richard Barnard on ways of introducing stave notation 64 Q&A
Ryan Wang, BBC Young Musician 2024, pays tribute to his teachers
EARLY YEARS 11 Music in the curriculum
Early years practitioner Penny Osmond explains why ‘music time’ should form part of free learning 23 Popular music in early years
Eleanor Rashid shows how using popular music can nurture creativity, exploration and self-expression 32 Music and identity
Musicality in early childhood is about ‘creating moments of connection, joy and learning,’ says Shaddai Tembo 35 Communicative musical play
Jessica Pitt summarises the research behind musical play, and suggests starting points for working in EFYS
Tolu McCarthy suggests ways for music educators to embrace diversity of styles, cultures and traditions 29 South African string teaching
On an examiner tour to South Africa, Iona Zuiderwijk came across Muzukids, a Suzukibased township project that impressed her,
as did the high quality of playing she found in a government school 38 Developing the music ed workforce
There is a growing consensus in favour of high-quality music in secondary schools. But who will deliver this? Simon Toyne does some ‘outside the box’ thinking
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