Listen Imagine Compose Primary - A Planning, Reflection and Progression Toolkit is designed to help teachers and composers support children's composing. Its focus is on children at Key Stage 2, but also has relevance for those teaching younger or older children. It is intended to help you develop and plan composing activities for young people and to support existing schemes of work. It does this through making suggestions and asking reflective questions. We hope the toolkit will: deepen your understanding of composing processes; help you think about what composing learning looks and sounds like for children; support you to better understand, listen and respond to children’s early musical ideas, compositions and composing processes; help you think about what it is to progress as a composer; build a culture of composing in your school or within a group of children
We want you to discover and identify how composing teaching and learning could work best for you, your school, and the children you work with. In addition, we hope the toolkit will help you advocate for more composing in schools and a better understanding of how composing contributes and can be central to children’s overall musical learning and identity.