HMDT Music has been creating unique, award-winning projects for schools since 1995. These include commissions of new works for students to perform or watch, supported by arts-embedded cross-curricular workshops and resources, bespoke creative projects and CPD training opportunities. Find out more about what we have to offer, how to book a workshop or work with us to create something special for your school.
TRENCH BROTHERS
KS1/KS2/KS3
Brings WW1 to life using stories of ethnic minority soldiers with artefacts handling (weapons, uniforms and memorabilia) and meeting a costumed interpreter. Can include art and music activities to commemorate Remembrance Day.
AN INVITE FROM THE QUEEN
KS1
Tours visual and musical world cultures through our humorous storybook of fruits from all over the world who have been invited to a party by the Queen. Examines healthy eating and builds an awareness of where food comes from.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
KS2
Uses children’s diaries, letters and poetry written in ghettos, in hiding and in camps, and artwork created in the camp of Terezin to introduce children to themes of prejudice and persecution in an accessible and meaningful way through composition, song, art and drama.
FACES OF DIVERSITY
KS1/KS2
Explores black role models through art, drama and music including entrepreneur and nurse Mary Secole, Jackie Robinson who broke the colour barrier in baseball, Joe Louis who beat Nazi-nominated boxer Max Schmeling in 1938 and child of the Windrush Floella Benjamin.
STEM SISTERS MARY ANNING
KS1/KS2
Introduces legendary paleontologist Mary Anning to learn her story of discovering fossils and investigate her world by finding ‘curiosities’. Piece together puzzles and uncover how fossils form in sedimentary rocks and give us clues about the classification of animals.
“The impact of working with HMDT Music has been transformational, enabling us to connect with inspiring artists to support teachers in their approaches to planning and delivering high quality learning experiences. Incorporating the arts into all our classes has seen an increase in children’s motivation, engagement and self-esteem. There is no doubt that without our long term involvement with HMDT Music’s TIME Project our curriculum would not have been judged to be outstanding by OFSTED.”
In Schools
HMDT Music’s E Project sets out to empower, enrich, equalise, expand, embed, engage, and evaluate through the creation of an arts-embedded curriculum focusing on themes and issues of inclusion, diversity, racial inequality and anti-racism.
Bringing the First World War to life for students through the experiences and personal stories of Indian Army, British West Indies Regiment and black British Soldiers
This new multi-media musical puppet show for schools and families is based on the discoveries and stories of historical STEM women who fought against the odds to pursue their flair for scientific enquiry, but were often unacknowledged for their discoveries and frequently encountered discrimination and prejudice along the way.
Supporting secondary schools in their own productions with workshops in voice, text and design.
HMDT Music’s new year-long online TIME CPD programme for primary schools builds technical skills in a range of art forms and introduces new ideas, methodologies and resources to empower teachers to use the arts to enhance the whole curriculum.
A ground-breaking baseball and jazz project celebrating the achievements of black players in the Negro Leagues and their jazz compatriots during segregation.
A whole school opera project celebrating diversity by exploring the stories of how families came to Hackney.
An insight into the range of projects we can create for your school from one day song-writing and after school activities to short commemoration projects and full-scale bespoke operas.
Developed in partnership with the British Legion to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day including two new songs and lesson plans on codebreaking, subterfuge and spies, inventions and more…
HMDT Music, twice winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education and recent winner of the Excellence in Musical Theatre Award, is a leader in creating inspiring arts projects for young people, which enrich learning and transform lives.
