Dan is an experienced music educator who spent many years as a secondary Head of Music. He regularly contributes to national curriculum design projects across Key Stages 1–5 and delivers workshops for both students and teaching professionals.

This page contains more information about Dan's work in Music Education. If you are looking for private tutoring, please click here.

Secondary Music Curriculum

While working as a Head of Music, Dan developed a fully resourced KS3 Music curriculum including units on singing, composition, ukulele, guitar, keyboard, dance music, hip hop, reggae, film music and more. This curriculum is used across multiple schools in Bristol. Dan has also designed resources for a number of KS4 and 5 Music courses. For more information and to view resources please get in touch.

Oak Academy

Dan has contributed a number of units to the Oak National Academy Music curriculum, including the following:

• KS1, Year 1 - Singing for Performance

• KS2, Year 4 - Composing a Major Melody

• KS2, Year 5 - Composing a Minor Melody

• KS3 song guides:

  • Year 7 - Riptide and Leave Her Johnny

  • Year 8 - Royals and Wade In The Water

  • Year 9 - Pompeii and Wild Mountain Thyme

• KS4, Year 10 - Introduction to Performance

• KS4, Year 11 - Composing to a Brief - Creative Starting Points

• KS4, Year 11 - Composing to a Brief  - Extending Ideas

These projects are free, national curriculum-aligned resources which are openly available to all. The units contain lessons, resources, original compositions and arrangements by Dan.

Other curriculum design projects

Dan is currerntly working on the primary Music Tech curriculum for Bristol Beacon, using Charanga's YuStudio.

Dan developed the secondary curriculum for the Berlioz 150 Fantastique! for Schools project, celebrating the life and music of Hector Berlioz. These resources can be accessed at https://fantastique.school/

Dan worked on the "Bristol Curriculum" for local music hub Bristol Beacon (then Bristol Plays Music), contributing a unit on Trip Hop.

Dan delivers workshops to students and teachers on a range of topics. Recent examples have included:

• KS2 music technology workshop series over 5 sessions.

• KS3 one-off singing workshop learning sea shanties.

• KS4 GCSE composition day to develop coursework.

• Workshop on recording/mixing and a capella arranging for PGCE Music students with Bristol Cathedral Trust.

If you would like to book a workshop, please get in touch.

There are a number of free resources including video tutorials and more at Dan's education YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MrPateChannel

You can purchase teaching resources including the popular GCSE Music revision grids at Dan's TES resources shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/dan6398

Lots of free resources are available at Oak Academy: https://www.thenational.academy/

For custom resources and more please get in touch.