Aurora Classroom
Teach music with confidence with Aurora Classroom
Digital learning platform Aurora Classroom gets your pupils playing instruments, singing confidently, and even composing their own music.
Developed in partnership with the Southbank Centre, Aurora Classroom is Aurora Orchestra’s award-winning creative learning programme, including free resources for primary, secondary and SEND schools, CPD films for teachers, and a world-class programme of live-activity.
Resources
Visit the Aurora Classroom website for more details and to create your free account.
Aurora Classroom is designed to empower all teachers to deliver music provision effectively, regardless of their own musical abilities, from EYFS to A level, with adapted curricula for SEND learners.
- Units for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 offer fully-planned 10-week schemes of work, or the option to build your own lessons from Aurora’s curated activity and audio libraries
- Build bespoke schemes of work for SEND learners based on strands of learning
- Explore key symphonic works with Aurora’s GCSE and A level resource packs, which support the teaching of set works and related genres
- CPD is at the heart of Aurora’s work, from teaching films embedded into their primary and SEND units, to online events focusing on current issues in music teaching
- A new introduction to the orchestra for KS3: this will be available soon.
Views & reviews
Aurora Classroom participants share their experiences.
‘A lifesaver for teachers who have not taught music before. The quality is everything you would expect from this kind of orchestra.’
Music Teacher Magazine, April 2023
‘I was astonished at how well-thought out the user-experience is… everything at your fingertips exactly where you need it.’
Primary Music Magazine, February 2023
‘The expertise of the people delivering the resources is immense. It’s an excellent way of enabling teachers to become music teachers because they can see the exemplification of how it should be done.’
Tessa, Deputy Head Teacher, North London
‘The work has really been done for me, I just have to go through it and enjoy it with the children.’
Sally, Year 1 teacher, Haringey
‘It’s been wonderful to hear the music up close. For a lot of schools that aren’t in big cities, this is a way of getting to “meet” quality instrumental players.’
Will, primary music specialist, Camden