Our annual symphonic schools’ concerts for KS2 pupils, SEND schools and home educators - enhancing musical learning through an awe-inspiring live music experience. Completely free, this is the perfect way to embed music making into the classroom.
With a diverse range of music, concerts have a different theme each year – from space and night to dancing and movement. A song and body percussion piece created with selected schools and featuring Makaton signs forms part of each interactive concert. Digital learning resources and teacher CPD (Continual Professional Development) sessions give teachers the tools they need to prepare pupils and learn participatory pieces before each concert.
Every year over 10,000 pupils and teachers attend Explore the Orchestra concerts in Poole, Exeter, Bristol and Portsmouth and thousands more pupils tune in to watch the concert online across the UK absolutely free.
There are plenty of ways to get inside the BSO’s music-making, from learning body percussion to meeting each instrument, and I can’t wait to share it with you
Explore the Orchestra is in partnership with
Explore the Orchestra has been generously supported by
Christine & Jim Dipple
Tanda McKee
The Pitt-Rivers Charitable Trust
The Salisbury Friends of BSO
Sir Neville & Lady Simms