Curriculum Designer (Build Your Own Music Lessons)

How it works (step-by-step)

This is the typical teacher workflow. Build once, place it into your plan, teach from the grid, then mark it as taught.

1. Open the Content Bank (Zone of Inspiration).
   Start in the Content Bank — 600+ practical primary activities across rhythm, pitch, listening, movement, singing, and instruments.
2. Build and save a lesson in Lesson Builder.
   Choose activities, sequence them, then save the lesson. Saved lessons become your personal library — easy to re-use, rename, and tidy up.
3. Place lessons into My Grids (your term plan).
   Choose a tab: Autumn, Spring, Summer, or Other. Each tab has 12 lesson tiles. Select any saved lesson for any tile (and reuse lessons wherever you need).
4. Teach from the grid.
   Click Go to lesson to launch instantly and teach straight from the screen. When you’ve taught it, use the taught tick to mark it complete.
5. Swap tiles in seconds.
   Use the ⇄ drag handle to swap lessons between tiles — quick, tidy, and no rebuilding.
6. Share within your school (optional).
   Share your curriculum so other teachers from your school can view, preview, and open it. Ideal for subject leaders: one clear shared structure, with flexibility for teachers.

What SLT gets

• Clarity and consistency: a simple term structure (Autumn / Spring / Summer + Other) that can be used across the school.
• Confidence in implementation: teachers can launch lessons directly from the plan, reducing workload and variation.
• Continuity: supports cover and staff changes without losing the thread of curriculum delivery.
• Easy to explain: saved lessons placed into a plan, then marked as taught — a clear, evidence-friendly record without extra paperwork.

What teachers get

• Less planning, more teaching: build quickly from ready-made activities, save once, and re-use whenever needed.
• Teach in one click: open any tile and launch straight into the lesson.
• Flexibility: swap tiles when timetables change; use the Other tab for cover, themed days, rehearsals, or “grab-and-go” sessions.
• Your language, your way: rename saved lessons to match how your school talks about music and learning.

Where this fits in the full Kidstrument curriculum

Use Lesson Builder + My Grids alongside ready-made Schemes of Work, the Content Bank, and tracking dashboards. Schools can use off-the-peg schemes, custom pathways, or a blend of both.

Quick start: Choose activities in the Content Bank → Save as a lesson → Place into My Grids → Go to lesson to teach → Tick as taught.