INCLUSIVE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME · FOR MUSIC HUBS
The class teacher presses play and 30 children write and produce a song in BandLab for Education. The teacher learns music technology by teaching it.
There is no supply cover to fund, no mileage to claim and no specialist needed in the room.
Technology is the instrument. Inclusion is the beat.
Introduction · building the staircase
bars 1 to 17
Beat
Bass
Keys
Melody
FX
Each instrument enters four bars after the last. Children see the shape of their song before they hear it.
40
years in music education
25
years of whole class music technology
30+
schools across the South West
0
specialist music teachers needed
WHAT IMTP DOES FOR YOUR HUB
CPD IN THE CLASSROOM
No cover and no mileage
Teachers learn in their own lessons while the video leads. Your Hub reaches every class without paying for supply cover or driving to one class at a time.
WHOLE CLASS MUSIC
Every child takes part
The Curriculum and Assessment Review found access to music is unequal: 29% of primary pupils had received no instrument teaching at school. With IMTP the whole class makes music at once. No prior lessons or notation are needed.
DfE omnibus survey 2023, cited in the Curriculum and Assessment Review final report, November 2025
READY FOR THE NEW CURRICULUM
Clear steps for non-specialists
The review found music’s endpoints unclear, “particularly when the subject is taught by non-specialists”. Every IMTP lesson follows the same five TRACK steps, mapped to the review’s technical, constructive and expressive pillars.
Revised national curriculum due 2027, first teaching 2028
This is the demo song from the programme. Pupils build their own version, section by section: Introduction, Chorus, Break, Verse and Outro, then the icing on the cake and a final mix they can download and share.
Everything runs in BandLab for Education, the school-safe platform, on the Chromebooks schools already have. Nothing to install.
SEE A LESSON IN ACTION
This is Introduction Part 1, the opening video of the programme. You will hear me lead the class on screen, see every step in BandLab for Education and notice where the video pauses for the children to try it.
The class teacher learns the same skills alongside the children. That is the CPD.
THE TRACK METHOD
T
Teach it
One new idea, explained in plain words.
R
Reveal how
Phil shows every click on screen.
A
Attempt it
The children try it on their own song.
C
Check
A numbered recap so everyone catches up.
K
Know it
The skill sticks, for the child and the teacher.
INSIDE AN IMTP LESSON
The Verse of the demo song in BandLab for Education, bars 29 to 37. Each coloured row is one instrument track, built up step by step during the lesson.
FOR MUSIC HUBS
CPD that happens in the classroom
Licence IMTP across your schools. Class teachers build music technology skills in their own lessons, with no supply cover to fund and no mileage to claim. Whole class music technology tuition for the children and CPD for the teacher come in one programme.
FOR SCHOOLS
Press play and teach music with confidence
Every lesson is on video, ready for the whiteboard. You do not need to read music or play an instrument. Your class finishes with songs they are proud of.
“
The best CPD I’ve had in a very long time. All the children could follow the clear steps on the video. The class teacher developed the necessary skills to run the project in future without support.
Jenny Jones · Widey Court Primary School
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GarageBand for Schools fulfils this role masterfully, removing barriers to the effective use of music technology and making it more accessible and enjoyable.
Richard Hallam MBE · Former National Music Participation Director, Department for Education
Music and Drama Education Expo, March 2019
ABOUT PHIL HEELEY
I have spent 40 years watching what happens when a child who feels locked out of music finally finds a way in. My own way in came when my mum introduced me to music technology. It let me get the music inside me out into the world.
I led Rock, Pop and Music Technology at Somerset Music Service, rated Ofsted Outstanding. I co-created Dance eJay for Schools in 2004, then built GarageBand for Schools and BandLab for Schools. IMTP brings all of that into one programme.
I have no formal music qualifications. That is why I built this for teachers who don’t have them either.