Charanga’s Schemes

Charanga’s Schemes are structured around units and steps that support your lesson planning and delivery across the year. Charanga’s new Creative Music Scheme is fast becoming the most popular. Drawing on content from across the Charanga platform, its units combine comprehensive planning support with the flexibility to match your teaching style and timetable. Watch this short video for an overview of the Scheme.

Whether you're new to teaching, just starting with Charanga, or looking to broaden your curriculum, there's something for everyone. Follow one Scheme of Work step by step, mix and match units from different Schemes, or build your own. You decide.

Your Charanga licence includes a range of Schemes, which are listed below.

Charanga’s approach

Charanga’s Schemes reflect a considered, evidence-informed approach to music education.

Curriculum-aligned – Resources are designed to cover the National Curriculum for Music fully, ensuring teachers meet statutory requirements while offering creative freedom.

Comprehensive and ready-to-use – Units include everything you need to deliver high-quality music lessons confidently.

Structured progression – Lesson sequences support the development of listening skills, vocal and instrumental technique, improvisation, and composition, enabling clear tracking of children's progress over time.

Differentiation built in – Guidance is provided for less confident learners and more advanced pupils, so you can tailor activities to individual needs and maintain engagement across the class.

Practical and flexible – Each lesson includes instructions, suggested activities, and assessment opportunities. Plans adapt easily to different class sizes, abilities, and timetable constraints.

Engaging and inspiring – Lessons incorporate singing, movement, performance, and ensemble work, supporting cross-curricular learning and fostering children's love of music.

Teacher-focused – Resources empower teachers, building both subject knowledge and pedagogical confidence.

Reflective and assessable – Suggested questions and assessment approaches help you monitor learning, provide feedback, and celebrate children's progress.

Championing technology – Across all of the Schemes, Charanga’s digital tools are woven into every lesson, amplifying every child's creative voice.

Celebrating expertise – These resources reflect Charanga’s innovative approach to music education rather than merely statutory guidance, positioning your school as forward-thinking and creative in its music provision.

Charanga’s Creative Music Scheme

This curriculum capitalises on students’ natural affinity for creativity. Charanga’s industry-leading digital tools are built into every lesson to amplify every child's creative voice, from Nursery through to Year 6. Every unit in the Scheme is easy and enjoyable to teach, and the planning support is straightforward.

Charanga’s Original Scheme

Charanga’s Original Scheme meets all the statutory curricular requirements of the National Curriculum for England Ofsted recognises it, and it's multi-award-winning.

Charanga’s Original Scheme – Adapted for Hybrid and Blended Learning

Charanga’s Adapted Scheme mirrors the Original Scheme, unit by unit, yet supports a range of teaching and learning contexts where a mix of face-to-face and online delivery is required, planned or otherwise.

Charanga’s English Model Music Curriculum Scheme

If you’re interested in exploring the Model Music Curriculum (MMC): Key Stages 1 to 3 – the government's non-statutory guidance for the curriculum in England – or simply looking for new repertoire for your students, follow or use materials from Charanga’s English MMC Scheme.

The Anyone Can Play SEND Scheme

The Anyone Can Play SEND Scheme is an accessible set of progressive units with lesson plans. It is designed to support musical activities and learning for students of all ages and abilities, including those with special educational needs or disabilities, in special schools, alternative provision or mainstream settings.

Build your own Scheme

Teachers can create and share a unique, customised learning pathway for their school using Charanga’s Scheme builder tools, combining Charanga resources, lessons or units with their own. You and your school will know what is best for your own teaching context.

Help and support at every step

Subscribers are assigned a designated CPD and Training Manager, who will help you get the most from Musical School. Sign up, visit the CPD & Training Centre to register for a webinar, email training@charanga.com, or book an online meeting using the Charanga Connect service.