Elizabeth Stafford
Director of @musicedsolution.bsky.social, Editor of @primarymusicmag.bsky.social and Music Hubs & Services Magazine, author of the Primary Music Leader’s Handbook, and co-author of the Secondary Music Leader’s Handbook.
www.musiceducationsolutions.co.uk
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordSeason 2 Episode 6 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Hilary Marsden about music at Ashdene Primary in Cheshire. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordSeason 2 Episode 4 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Kathryn Dukes about music at Holy Rosary Catholic Voluntary Academy in Staffordshire. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordSeason 2 Episode 3 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Anna Gower about music at St Andrew's International School in Bangkok. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Season 2 Episode 2 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube.
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Season 2 Episode 1 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordSeason 2 Episode 1 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @DrLizStafford chatting with Theresa Phillips about music at Sneyd Academy in Stoke-on-Trent. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford*NEW BLOG* @drlizstafford.bsky.social gives her opinion on the Curriculum & Assessment Review’s final report musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/opinion...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordIn our *BRAND NEW* Autumn Term issue: Baby, you're a firework, by @drlizstafford.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bddfrzuw
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordIn our *BRAND NEW* Autumn Term issue: Jingle all the way! By @drlizstafford.bsky.social tinyurl.com/m34udxuf
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordWe're thrilled to be 3 x finalists in this year's Music & Drama Education Awards! Our podcast, research project for Drums for Schools, and the Secondary Music Leader’s Handbook published by Collins Music have all been shortlisted!
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordWant to share the wonderful work you're doing with music in your school? We're now seeking guests for Primary Music in Conversation Season 2! Express your interest here: musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/contact/
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford*NEW BLOG* 🎃 Bring some Halloween magic to your music lessons! 👻 Explore creative ideas for spooky soundscapes, storytelling, rhythm, and global traditions — all while developing key musical skills. Read the blog 👉 tinyurl.com/ycd2bwr9 #MusicEducation #Halloween
- My latest for Music Teacher Magazine www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/feat...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordThis #InternationalPodcastDay why not catch up with one of our two podcasts presented by @drlizstafford.bsky.social Primary Music in Conversation and CME in Conversation are both available on all major podcast apps and via our website tinyurl.com/wzccc6ub Image: Nikki Cooper Photography
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordJoin @drlizstafford.bsky.social on Tuesday 30th September for a webinar on Developing Core Skills in Primary Music, and learn how to progressively develop performing, listening, composing & improvising, and music theory skills from EYFS to Y6. tinyurl.com/2mdwa6xb
- *NEW* Blog: Making the right start with music. musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/making-...
- Just seen someone advertising a music education job that doesn’t exist yet for a government contract they haven’t won yet for (at an educated guess) a National Centre for Music & Arts Education for which no firm details have been released. 🤯
- This is quite the read! 😱 Not so Totally Rad: the UK music tuition firm leaving pupils in the lurch and teachers in despair www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Another accolade? Go on then! 🥰
- Our Primary Music in Conversation podcast has been shortlisted for a Teach Primary Award in the Free Resource category! Huge thanks to our listeners & guests – we couldn’t have done it without you! musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/teach-p... #EduSkyPrimary #MusicEd #EduSkyUK
- Thrilled by this news! 🎶🥳
- Music Education Solutions has been named Best Nationwide Music Education Provider 2025 by SME News Magazine! We're so proud to be recognized for our dedication to high-quality music education. musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/best-mu... #EduSky #MusicEd
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordJoin @drlizstafford.bsky.social on Tuesday 30th September for a webinar on Developing Core Skills in Primary Music, and learn how to progressively develop performing, listening, composing & improvising, and music theory skills from EYFS to Y6. tinyurl.com/2mdwa6xb
- I really, REALLY wish we could get beyond the misunderstanding that music education = extra-curricular instrumental provision. Music is a statutory subject of the National Curriculum, and the heart of music education is inclusive classroom music lessons, not optional instrumental provision.
- Looking forward to launching the first cohort of this in 2026! #MusicEd
- *BRAND NEW* for 2026! Join @drlizstafford.bsky.social for our Primary Music Specialist Certificate to refine your teaching practice, enhance your pedagogical understanding, and demonstrate your expertise to current and future employers. tinyurl.com/4etwmf9f
- Our subscription packages for next academic year are live! High quality CPD at bargain basement prices! Check them out here: tinyurl.com/yc5zd8hr
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford*BRAND NEW* for 2025-26! Join @drlizstafford.bsky.social for our Music Education Support & Development Certificate for advisers, consultants, trainers and lead schools supporting schools with music. tinyurl.com/36b8pzz3
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordSeason 1 may be over, but you can still catch up with all our episodes of Primary Music in Conversation here: primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordSecondary Music Leadership Certificate academic year 2025/26 dates now available for booking! Join us in the Autumn, Spring or Summer terms to develop your head of department skills! tinyurl.com/y9y4a9tb
- Some blue sky for Bluesky! Looking forward to relaxing and recharging after another hectic academic year. 🥰
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Episode 7 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordEpisode 7 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Annie Undzhiyan about music at Mere Green Primary in Birmingham. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordGet in touch before 31st August to submit your articles and news items for the next issue of Music Hubs & Services Magazine: musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/contact/
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford*BRAND NEW* for 2026! Join Dr Phil Mullen for our Inclusive Music Education Certificate for support and guidance on your journey towards more inclusive music education practice. tinyurl.com/54dyx9n8
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Episode 6 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordEpisode 6 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Emma Cornhill about music at Fairburn Community Primary School in Yorkshire. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordFollowing the launch of their Secondary Music Leader’s Handbook, @drlizstafford.bsky.social and Dan Francis were delighted to attend the HarperCollins Summer Party yesterday 🥂
- My co-author and I had a rather lovely time at the HarperCollins Summer Party yesterday…
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Episode 4 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- This is a fascinating chat, particularly if you are looking for ways to get more cultural diversity into your music curriculum. 🎶
- Episode 5 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Jonathan Harris about music at The Premier Academy in Milton Keynes. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Join me at the Elementary Music Summit between 7th - 11th July! Ticket link in comments below.
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Episode 4 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- This was an interesting chat about the strategies Milby Primary School has used to support all their teachers to feel confident with teaching music.
- Episode 4 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Janice Rowstron about music at Milby Primary School in Warwickshire. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
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- We're delighted to announce the launch of the brand new book by Dan Francis & @drlizstafford.bsky.social Find out more about the Secondary Music Leader's Handbook here: tinyurl.com/mwvupk2x
- I think I nailed it 💅🏻📚🎶 Pre-order your copy of the Secondary Music Leader’s Handbook now! 🥰
- Talk about an exciting delivery! 🥰📚
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Episode 3 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordEpisode 3 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with David Gray about music at Barton Hill Academy in Devon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordPrimary Music in Conversation Episode 2 OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordEpisode 2 of our Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Ben Griffiths about music at Bannockburn Primary School in London. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordFind out what the @TrinityC_L Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators could do for you! tinyurl.com/42mzkz24
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordEpisode 1 of Primary Music in Conversation is OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube.
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- Episode 1 of our *BRAND NEW* Primary Music in Conversation podcast is NOW OUT! Featuring @drlizstafford.bsky.social chatting with Helen Byard about music at Edenbridge Primary in Kent. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! primarymusic.podbean.com
- In advance of our brand new podcast launching next month, we've finally got with the times and relaunched last year's CME in Conversation podcast via Podbean. This means you can now listen to it on pretty much any podcasting app. Clever, huh? certificateformusiceducators.podbean.com
- My latest for Music Teacher Magazine www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/feat...
- Pop in Partnership: A nationwide study on how reimagining Rock & Pop learning can help Music Hubs deliver the National Plan for Music Education.
- Further information on how to get involved: musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/pop-par...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordIn order to avoid confusion for our customers we would like to confirm that we are not attending the Music Teachers Association Conference this year, and that the company displaying our brand name on their exhibition stand at said conference is not affiliated with us in any way.
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordFind out what the Trinity College London Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators could do for you! tinyurl.com/42mzkz24 #MusicEd
- Come and be a guest on my brand new podcast! musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/new-pri...
- Come and be a guest on my brand new podcast! musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/new-pri...
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford"It’s difficult, and might be considered unwise, to venture an opinion on a proposal that is so scant on detail at present. Conversely one might argue that this is the perfect time for our voices to be heard." tinyurl.com/2r3ds94u @drlizstafford.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford"As both hubs and schools tackle the challenge of doing more with less (in real terms) funding, it’s important to make support offers and interventions as targeted and effective as possible for the benefit of both parties." tinyurl.com/y699k2yt @drlizstafford.bsky.social
- The measure of whether a school is providing a good music education is not “how many children are learning the violin.” It is how well they are delivering the statutory music curriculum to all their pupils.
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordJoin Dr Phil Mullen on Wednesday 21st May for a webinar all about supporting young people with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties through music education. Book your place today! tinyurl.com/mufuk3w8 #MusicEd
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordJoin our mailing list during May and receive our Curriculum Design Toolkit absolutely free! The ideal guide for refreshing and redesigning your curriculum, packed with practical exercises to get you thinking! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/bdez9mbn
- Saying music should only be taught by specialists in primary schools doesn’t raise standards, it lowers them, because it makes the teachers who are currently teaching music feel inadequate, question themselves, and lack confidence.
- PSA: Primary schools not having a specialist music teacher does not equal primary schools “not doing music.” The norm in the UK is for all subjects to be taught by non-specialists at primary level!
- Essential reading for all UK #MusicEd enthusiasts.
- Nice piece in Music Teacher Mag in which I am interviewed about being honoured with the lifetime achievement award for music education. Trouble with being interviewed is you can’t edit what you said –anyway here is what tumbled out of my mouth! www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/qa/q...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordLooking for a music education qualification? Why not consider the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators! musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/level-4-certif…
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordWhen students participate in interdisciplinary learning with science and music, they have fun *and* build up their vocabulary in both subjects! @bmanchesteredu.bsky.social explains how. 🔬🎻 #MusicTeacher #MusicEducation #ElementaryTeacher
- Reposted by Elizabeth Stafford#Schools are used to the unintended consequences of government #education policy decisions. With both #Ofsted & #curriculum reform on the horizon, Pete Taylor says that headteachers are once again holding their breath... buff.ly/P58GEAH #teaching #teachers #edusky
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordBook NOW for the summer term cohort of our popular Primary Music Leadership Certificate, led by @drlizstafford.bsky.social, beginning on 8th May. Just £150 for a full term of support. tinyurl.com/mjp3abtr #EduSkyPrimary #EduSkyUK
- Book now for the summer term cohort of the Secondary Music Leadership Certificate led by Dan Francis, starting on 2nd June. tinyurl.com/4xm4jvj8
- This is not great news!
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordIn the *brand new* issue of Music Hubs & Services Magazine: @drlizstafford.bsky.social advises how music hubs can effectively solve the key issues facing school music provision tinyurl.com/49b5ym3h #MusicEd
- *NEW* blog: Saving music education (again)… musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/saving-...
- Come and get involved in our next research study!
- In the *brand new* issue of Music Hubs & Services Magazine: The Rock & Pop Foundation introduce their new nationwide study on Rock & Pop learning in Music Hubs tinyurl.com/ykj4rmnd #MusicEd
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordYes, a massive disservice to the schools where music is thriving. Re “In the 50s, 60s and 70s …. there was brilliant music provision in schools etc” I can assure him from own experience that the reality of provision at the time was equally, if not more, patchy
- “Music in the classroom is more or less gone.” Completely ill informed nonsense, would expect a bit more fact checking from The Guardian before publication to be honest. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordBook now for the summer term cohort of the Secondary Music Leadership Certificate led by Dan Francis, starting on 2nd June. tinyurl.com/4xm4jvj8
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordIn the *brand new* issue of Music Hubs & Services Magazine: @drlizstafford.bsky.social discusses the new National Centre for Arts & Music Education - what can we expect and should we be concerned? tinyurl.com/4put2bfz #MusicEd
- I enjoyed editing this latest issue! Lots of interesting features about the work of music hubs and services!
- The *BRAND NEW* issue of Music Hubs & Services Magazine is NOW OUT! tinyurl.com/bdd4ua5n #MusicEd @musicmarkuk.bsky.social
- One of the most frustrating things about working in #MusicEd is the number of separate advocacy campaigns that get started without checking what everyone else is doing first. If we want the government to listen to us we need to speak with one voice. 🙏
- My latest for Teach Primary Magazine cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordBook NOW for the summer term cohort of our popular Primary Music Leadership Certificate, led by @drlizstafford.bsky.social, beginning on 8th May. Just £150 for a full term of support. tinyurl.com/mjp3abtr #MusicEd #EduSkyPrimary
- And another announcement, including the establishment of a National Centre for Arts and Music Education. Music Hubs likely to be pleased that they get a mention here as suggests the government sees them as a long term fixture. www.gov.uk/government/n...
- The Curriculum & Assessment Review Interim Report is out: www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Reposted by Elizabeth StaffordThis is a great blog by Anna Gower who is one of our fantastic CME mentors! Some really useful ideas for helping students persist with DAW-based projects. #MusicEd annagower.com/2025/03/16/t...
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- Exclusive: Our annual executive pay investigation has this year included 1,800 trusts, making it probably the largest ever analysis More than 60 trusts had leaders paid at least £200,000 last year - and here are the best paid 🔽 Full story: buff.ly/3s9cusy
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