Why should religious music be of interest to our largely secular society? BBC 4’s Sacred Music, presented by Simon Russel Beale, visited Notre Dame de Paris to show how two innovations of the 12th Century Notre Dame School underpin what has since come to be known as western classical music.
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I’ve long been convinced of the benefits of connectivity in learning. Musical concepts can occasionally seem nebulous and resonance with any element of pupils’ more concrete subjects is a great ally. Comparisons between technique and PE or phrasing and language are usually embraced willingly.
Those involving Maths & Physics can tend to produce more glazing than […]

If you allowed your pupils to rove freely round the classroom, how difficult would it be to keep track of where they were? Imagine that at the end of a few seconds, they were converted into identical, featureless statues. How many of them could you name?
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Morna Crombie from Curriculum for Excellence and pupils from St Stephen’s Primary School in Dalmuir in Clydebank demonstrate interdisciplinary learning with a short drama combining food and health, physical activity and maths.
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