What are Modular Resource Packs?
Our modular resource packs are designed as 6-8 weeks worth of session plans and content that you can adapt and work through with your own classes. Some of these packs are for music classes or ensembles, however many have been specifically created to also work in other educational settings such as PSHE classes or Nurture groups.
Each pack focuses on a specific theme, either musical or social, and supports you to lead sessions with your students that build their musical skills and confidence, whilst also opening up key conversations around topics like gender, mental health, and home.
We believe that music is a great tool for opening up these discussions, and hope that you can use these resource packs to facilitate safe, open channels of communication between yourself and your students.
Exploring Masculinity Through Music
I Want to Throw Myself in and Snap Off the Mask is a modular Resource Pack which explores masculinity through music, taking existing song lyrics as a starting point to encourage students to consider creating their own definitions of masculinity for a modern world, and to have potentially difficult but open conversations around how male, societal gender norms have affected them.
This Resource Pack has been specifically designed to allow young people of all genders to take part in these conversations, supporting you to facilitate safe, open discussions where everyone has a space to explore how they feel about the role that they have been ‘given’ by their gender in society, and the role they might now wish to create for themselves.
Carole King Vocal Arrangements
This teaching resource will support you to delve into the iconic catalogue of American songstress Carole King with your students, through group vocal arrangements written and prepared by NYJO Vocalist Daisy Houlder.
This resource was developed following a 2025 pilot project delivered by Daisy to a group of young vocalists aged between 14-20 who you can see learning these arrangements within the resource!
Your students will be able to gain a fresh perspective by inserting their voices into the instrumentation of these songs, connecting with the narrative of the lyrics, and bringing their own creative thoughts into the performance.
Music & Mental Health
I am Living, I am Growing is a 6 – 8-week modular resource for schools and community groups, developed following a 2025 pilot project with 3 schools in Essex.
This resource takes Kae Tempest’s poetry, and themes of mental health and wellbeing, as a starting point to support students to use music and creative writing as a positive outlet for self-expression.
Working with a range of young people, from GCSE Composition students to Year 7 Nurture Groups, this project is designed to give secondary school-age students the tools to explore the links between music and mental health.
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