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5 Editorial 6 News 12 Diary

Platinum Jubilee resources, upcoming events and CPD 36 Column: mental health and wellbeing

One year in, we round up the contributions from our first cohort of partners 40 Online teaching materials

A preview of June’s resources 43 Column: ISM

Nerys Owen on the importance of employment status for music teachers 45 Column: Ask Althea

Continuing the complex conversation about Thompson’s ‘Tom-Toms’

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VOCAL FOCUS 14 Blazing a trail

Anna Lapwood on her mission to widen access to choristership and the organ 20 Conducting on a national scale

NYCGB’s Ben Parry shares conducting

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46 Column: Noah’s Notes

Our 16-year-old columnist argues that students play classical out of necessity 48 Reviews

MT’s experts check out Steinberg’s Cubasis 3.4, choral collection In the deep for tenors and basses, ABRSM’s Singing for Music Theatre syllabus, and Hal Leonard’s Essential Elements Music Class 50 Column: tech

Xann Schwinn on gaming and technology in music education for adults 51 New products: tech

Kate Rounding reveals her top picks for the month 58 Q&A

MT meets Major Simon Haw

FEATURES 18 Examining change: TCL

The third in our series on decolonising exam boards 22 Oak National Academy

Oak’s music resources go under the microscope 24 Time for a change

Reflecting on moving abroad to start a new role in a new school 33 Staying afloat

Ideas for supplementing income as a private or peri music teacher 38 The new virtual classroom

The creators of SYNKii on their all-in-one tool for instrumental teaching

tips and talks representation in choral music 30 LGBTQ+ inclusive singing

Is your choir a safe space for every young person?

34 Kodály written all over it

An update from the British Kodály Academy

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