Description
Save time, inspire curiosity, and bring music into your classroom every day of the year!
Save 20% compared to purchasing each month separately.
This complete Composer of the Day Bundle contains 366 daily activities covering every day of the year. Each activity introduces pupils to a different composer through an engaging biography, carefully structured comprehension questions, and a QR code linking directly to a curated listening extract from MusicOfTheDay.co.uk.
Designed for KS2–KS5, these versatile, no-prep resources are ideal for cross-curricular learning in Music, English, History and PSHE.
What’s Included
The bundle contains all twelve months of Composer of the Day activities:
✔️ January (31 composers)
✔️ February (29 composers)
✔️ March (31 composers)
✔️ April (30 composers)
✔️ May (31 composers)
✔️ June (30 composers)
✔️ July (31 composers)
✔️ August (31 composers)
✔️ September (30 composers)
✔️ October (31 composers)
✔️ November (30 composers)
✔️ December (31 composers)
Across the year, pupils discover composers from a wide range of historical periods, countries and musical traditions, including classical, jazz, folk, film, popular, contemporary and world music.
Every Daily Activity Includes
- An age-appropriate composer biography (approximately 150 words)
- Five structured comprehension questions
- Suggested answers
- QR code linking directly to a listening extract
- A clean, consistent layout for print or digital use
Why Teachers Love This Bundle
Zero preparation
Simply open the day’s activity and begin.
Cross-curricular learning
Develops reading comprehension while broadening musical knowledge, historical understanding and cultural awareness.
Flexible classroom use
Perfect for morning starters, tutor time, cover lessons, homework, independent reading, music appreciation and enrichment activities.
Builds key literacy skills
Questions develop retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and summarising.
Curriculum Links
United Kingdom – National Curriculum
Supports:
- Reading comprehension (KS2)
- Music appreciation and listening (KS2 & KS3)
- Knowledge of significant composers and musical traditions
- Cultural capital
United States – Common Core
Supports:
- RI.3.1
- RI.4.2
- RL.4.4
- SL.4.2
Classroom Ideas
- Daily “Composer of the Day” starter
- Whole-school music focus
- Composer timeline display
- Guided reading sessions
- Homework activities
- Cover lessons
- Music appreciation projects
- Cross-curricular topic work
- Listening and discussion activities
Perfect For
- KS2 and KS3 teachers
- Music departments
- English departments
- Supply teachers
- Homeschool families
- Cross-curricular projects
- Cultural capital programmes
Bring music, literacy and listening together with a complete year’s worth of engaging daily activities—ready to use whenever you need them.
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