To support you with planning your delivery of the ACMD qualifications, and with evidencing your learners’ music making, we have a selection of resources available to download and purchase below. We will add new resources to this web page as and when they are created.
If you have any ideas for support resources, please email katherine.stapley-smith@trinitycollege.com.
New book!
Sounds Right: Resources for Inclusive Music Making reclaims music’s original, universal role as a form of shared understanding and emotional connection. Drawing on the pioneering Sounds of Intent framework, this book offers practical strategies, creative ideas and ready-to-use materials for teachers, therapists, and facilitators who want to make music accessible to learners of all abilities— including those with learning disabilities or complex needs.
Developed with Trinity College London Press, the Sounds Right resources align with Trinity’s Awards and Certificates in Musical Development: the first nationally regulated qualifications to recognise music as a continuum, from early communication to artistic expression.
Celebrating the idea that everyone is musical, this book provides musical projects centred around original pieces of music which enable learners of all levels of musical ability to work together, complemented with digital audio files that can be downloaded and activated by any form of accessible switching device, including gesture-recognition technology, touchscreens and eye-gaze systems.
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Documentation
- Document displaying the Sounds of Intent learning outcomes and assessment criteria together in one place. By having everything you need in one place, this should help aid your planning and assessment work.
- Blank assessment evidence template
This document needs to be used when you’re assessing each learners’ video recordings of their music making. Within this document is a template for each of the three domains where you can write the candidate’s name, include the video link and then write the contextual information, observations and interpretations of what’s happening in each video for each domain. You should then add the Sounds of Intent level the learner is working at for each domain, and whether they are emerging, achieving or excelling (EAX).
- Examples of completed assessment evidence templates
Below you will find some made up examples of completed assessment evidence forms including links to accompanying videos where possible, to give you some ideas on what to write for the contextual information, observations and interpretations. There is one full completed form covering all three domains and then a number of other forms covering different single domains.
Example video evidence
Below you will find a number of videos from ACMD centres who have been through the moderation process. They are real examples of videos submitted for the qualifications showing their learners making music. We have also included the accompanying assessment evidence form.
Rosie leading EU song
Miles leading EU song
Katy leading EU song
Jonathan leading EU song
Electric Umbrella song assessment evidence
- Jonathan leading the Electric Umbrella Song, which is used for Jamie’s Interactive assessment (when he was the responder in the song) and also as part of Jonathan's Proactive assessment.
- Katy leading the Electric Umbrella Song - used for part of Katy's Proactive assessment and Rosie's Interactive assessment.
- Miles leading the Electric Umbrella Song - used for Ian Andrew's Proactive assessment (he plays the Cajon throughout) and as part of Miles's Proactive assessment.
- Rosie leading the Electric Umbrella Song - used for part of Rosie's Reactive, Proactive and Interactive assessments.