Music Education
Music Inset Training / Primary School Music Teaching Resources / School Curriculum Design / Whole Class Teaching
Suggested training and Speeches:
Motivating non-specialist teachers to teach music in the primary classroom
The Daily listening Project
Introducing a Daily Listening Scheme into the primary school classroom to improve child wellbeing and achieve peak states for learning.
Making Music a Colourful Experience
The use of Colour Coded Notation as an aid to improve confidence and accuracy in reading music
"Pupils enjoy coming to school and demonstrate enthusiasm for learning. They appreciate their teachers who make learning fun. Music provision is of a particularly high quality, and every pupil learns an instrument. Pupils also enjoy the many musical opportunities they have, such as the orchestra road trips and the lunchtime choir that is led by pupils in Year 5."
- Ofsted, 2024
"The best music speech I have heard in 10 years!"
- Expo attendee, 2025
"By far my favourite training of the PGCE course, this session was so engaging, fun and I walked away having learnt lots, eager to try out new ideas at my school."
- Student Teacher, 2025
Why? How? WHat?
An introduction to teaching music in the primary school classroom
This is how we do it!
A Crash Course in reading musical rhythmic and melodic notation using african drums and tuned percussion.
Primary School Music Composition
Practical ideas to encourage composition in the primary school classroom.
Music as Continuous Provision
Practical application of music in the primary school classroom to extend it beyond a standalone lesson.
Luke completed a PGCE in Primary Education from Leeds University in 2013 before moving back to London, where he has been working in schools since. After a few years experience in the classroom, Luke became Head of Music across a 5-school academy trust in North London where he currently leads whole class music sessions, assemblies, instrumental lessons and workshops to children aged 4-11. Alongside this Luke delivers training to teachers on how to deliver music lessons, including having designed the handbook and training for student teachers at the 2SchoolsConsortium, and delivering a talk at the Music and Drama Education Expo 2025.
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In 2022-24 Luke completed an MA in music psychology, passing with a distinction, to help understand the processes behind learning and teaching music. With responsibility for both teaching and leading of music, Luke designed a curriculum for the schools within the academy with appropriate plans and resources for all levels. The curriculum draws upon all aspects of music and aims to garner a creative love of music in the children that will also influence their academic improvement across all curriculum areas. Luke regularly leads whole class sessions on a range of media, such as Recorder, Ukulele, African drums, Keyboard, Choir, GarageBand, collaborative composition, theory and much more.
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As a trained Arts Award Advisor Luke also has the ability to lead community music sessions with accredited certification from Trinity College. Luke is passionate to improve music outcomes for all ages and acknowledges that a key area to support this is through continuing professional development of staff through meetings based on subject knowledge, facilitating instrumental lessons and overall music curriculum design. Luke also uploads a range of support videos to YouTube to assist with the teaching and learning of key musical elements.
