There are a number of key decisions that will help you to give a lot of shape to work that you carry out over a few weeks or even a term.

• What musical aims do you have for your project?
  
  
• What cross-curricular benefits can you gain from your project?
  
  
• How does the project fit with individual needs and learning plans of your pupils?
  
  
• How does your project end? This could be a recording, a performance to friends and family, sharing the work with another class...
  
  
• How much time do you need to prepare for a final event, if you are having one? Ideally your event should come as a natural part of your work without too much need for rehearsal.
  
  
• How is the musical content going to develop over the project? The building blocks and composing pages will give you a lot of guidance here.
  
  
• What do you want to achieve in each session that you will be running? An overall plan helps to keep things on schedule for any kind of performance. If you fall behind the schedule there is no need to worry as you can simply adjust what the content of the final outcome will be.
  
  
• How is your first session structured? Get the detail this one right and the rest of the project tends to fall easily into place.