About Music Ready to Teach
A practical pathway for delivering music.
Music Ready to Teach is a structured, classroom-ready approach to KS3 music. It helps teachers deliver purposeful practical learning without having to build every lesson from scratch.
Meet the founder
Bren Jones
Music educator, curriculum designer and musician
Bren has experience across secondary education, further education, teacher development and digital learning. Across those roles, he kept seeing the same problem: teachers were expected to deliver meaningful music with limited time, uneven subject confidence and too little practical support.
He created Music Ready to Teach because good music provision should not depend on teachers searching through resource banks, reinventing lessons or working out every practical detail alone.
MRTT is built on a simple belief: every young person should have a meaningful opportunity to belong, contribute and succeed through music.
Why MRTT exists
More than a bank of resources.
MRTT combines a familiar lesson structure, practical music-making and guided resources into one dependable pathway that teachers can follow and adapt.
Clear enough to follow
Preparation, modelling, checks and lesson stages are made visible, reducing avoidable workload and uncertainty.
Flexible enough to adapt
The framework provides consistency without replacing professional judgement or prescribing one rigid teaching style.
Musical from the outset
Pupils learn through playing, creating, listening, rehearsing, reflecting and improving.
Who MRTT supports
Built around the realities of secondary music.
MRTT gives experienced teachers a coherent framework to adapt and gives less confident teachers a dependable route through practical music-making.
- Secondary schools and music departments
- Heads of Music developing a coherent KS3 pathway
- Early-career and non-specialist music teachers
- Supply and cover teachers delivering practical music
Currently in development
Developed through classroom practice.
MRTT is being refined through classroom practice and a secondary-school pilot. We welcome conversations with schools interested in structured, inclusive and practical KS3 music.
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