Hands On CPD

Designed for non-specialists. Learn about inclusivity, technology, AI, and digital ethics.

🏆 National Plan for Music Education – Exemplar Resource (2022)

👉 Book a 30-minute planning call

These CPDs are for you if you want to:

✓ Use AI safely and confidently — supporting pupils while easing workload.
✓ Strengthen Adaptive Teaching for your Inclusive classroom.
✓ Receive practical, classroom-ready tools to deliver a rich curriculum.
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Inclusive Practice & SEND

GenAI for Lesson Planning & Adaptive Teaching

Teachers 🤖 Adaptive AI ⏱️ Efficiency

Using AI to support expert adaptive teaching, reducing time spent on repetitive tasks to streamline workload and preserve your irreplaceable role in shaping learning.

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Inclusive Creative Learning with Music & Technology

Inclusive 🎵 MusicTech 🤝 Belonging

Hands-on training exploring how music and creative technologies can support inclusive learning. Equipping staff with adaptive teaching strategies to remove barriers to engagement and foster a deep sense of belonging for all children.

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STEAM & Music Innovation

EYFS & KS1: Teaching Music and Technology through play

EYFS–KS1 🎵 Foundations 🧸 Creative Play

Ready-to-use activities alongside guidance on understanding pupils’ creative development, ensuring children build strong foundations early on.

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STEAM Education: Creative Approaches to STEM Learning

KS2–KS3 🔬 STEAM 🚀 Engagement

Boosting engagement and understanding in STEM to nurture the problem-solvers of tomorrow. Specifically support transition and engagement, ensuring pupils become active participants in their learning.

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Teaching Music in Primary: For Non-Specialist

Primary 🎵 Teacher Confidence 🎼 Music

Build confidence in high-quality music teaching. Directly supports schools in delivering a rich and broad curriculum and meeting the new core enrichment entitlement by igniting curiosity.

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AI, Digital Literacy & Ethics

GenAI for Primary Classrooms: In-Class Creativity

KS2 🤖 GenAI 🔐 Digital Literacy

Accessible AI to support creative learning, not as a substitute, covering basics to understand how AI creates through making with it.

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GenAI for Secondary Classrooms: In-Class Creativity

KS3 🤖 Critical AI 💬 Informed Thinking

This CPD equips teachers to help pupils critically engage with and challenge the information they encounter, building the media literacy required to navigate an AI-driven future.

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Digital Ethics & Responsible AI for Schools

Schools 🤖 Responsible AI ⚖️ Digital Ethics

Building ethical awareness, professional judgement, and confidence to ensure the safe and evidence-based use of AI in education.

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Structure

Online

Live, interactive session — no specialist software required

90 minutes

Fits INSET, twilight or staff meetings without overload

Practical & adaptable

Hands-on strategies you can tailor to your learners

How it works

Short planning call

A brief conversation to understand your setting, priorities and staff needs.

Bespoke Plan

We shape the CPD content and focus so it’s relevant for your school

CPD delivery

An engaging session designed for your staff and classroom context.

CPD Pathways

£200

Single 90-minute session : High-impact session with practical, classroom-ready strategies

£300

Two 90-minute sessions (same day): Deeper exploration with guided implementation planning

From £400

Follow-up development course (min. 4 teachers, £100 per teacher): Embedding practice across teams with reflection, refinement and sustained impact

📍In-person delivery available upon request.

Logistics costs will be added on top.

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Your Tutors

Experienced educators working across SEND-inclusive school settings and higher education in creative technology and AI.
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Prof Enrico Bertelli

Executive Director
Prof Enrico Bertelli has over 12 years’ experience teaching and leading music-led STEAM education across primary, secondary, special schools and alternative provision, working with diverse learners in over 20 countries. Alongside extensive classroom practice, he brings professorial experience at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where he has designed and delivered undergraduate and MA-level teaching and research in Generative AI, ethics, creative technology and cross-disciplinary practice. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Performance (Percussion and Electronics) and specialises in making AI and creative technologies practical, inclusive and ethical, supporting learners from primary pupils to MA students and teachers.
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Dr Yui Shikakura

Project Manager, Workshop Leader
Dr Yui Shikakura is a specialist in early years education, inclusive learning, and Generative AI–enhanced teaching, with a strong focus on SEND and creative pedagogy. She has led the design and delivery of music programmes for special schools. At Lingnan University, Hong Kong, she has designed and taught courses in world music and sustainability, digital humanities, and AI-supported creative learning, including GIS mapping, 3D modelling, and music creation for MA-level history programmes. She holds a PhD in Music Education and Ethnomusicology, specialising in developmentally informed, culturally sustainable teaching from early childhood through MA and professional development levels.
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Teachers Voice

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Great websites that are child-friendly and really engaging. The resources were also really different to any other music courses I have been on before. I like the link between technology and music. Thank you for a great session!
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Year 1/2 Class Teacher
Wiltshire
It was a really user-friendly experience. I had never experienced coding before.
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Year 7/8 Music Coordinator
Norfolk
I learned that coding can be used to relate to music. Incredibly engaging for pupils and well-linked to a variety of other national curriculum subjects.
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Year 5/6 Class Teacher
Essex
I never knew that music programmes like this were available for children.
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Year 3/4 Class Teacher
Cumbria
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FAQs

You can book our sessions as part of your INSET day or as part of your ongoing weekly CPD programme. Sessions can be delivered on the same day or scheduled separately, allowing you to differentiate staff groups (for example, KS1 followed by KS2).

In-person delivery is also available upon request.

For the sessions, teachers will need laptops or iPads. We recommend using the same devices that students will use, to ensure that web filters are disabled and the devices are up-to-date and fully functional.

Participating teachers receive a certificate that is shareable on LinkedIn. Also receive nine months of free access to our on-demand online learning platform, STEAM Corner. This platform includes video tutorials, slides, lesson plans, and homework sets, enabling users to deliver lessons independently, with slides or video guidance.

Yes. We offer in-person delivery where requested.
Logistics costs (travel and any required accommodation) are calculated separately and agreed in advance.
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