ARE YOU TEACHING CHILDREN AGED 5-12?

All of the programmes use easy to source items, like drink bottles, tennis balls, paper/plastic bags, rubbish bins, rubbish bin lids and drum sticks.   These items are not used all at once in any programme, so it is feasible that one class could be doing a programme using drink bottles, and another pots, pans & sticks and another buckets.  This is entirely your choice.

Drumsticks:

We recommend getting a class set of drumsticks (5A or 5B) that can be shared in your school.  However most drumsticks are generally all within a certain size that will work.  The different sizes are more for getting different tones out of cymbals which is not needed for any of our programmes.  

Bins or Buckets:

60-80L sized bins are the perfect size for children of all ages to play on. although small cheap buckets will work, it is not as enjoyable for everyone to have to be continually bending over to play their bucket and not all have lids with handles.

We suggest purchasing something that's at least the hight of your knees (yours, not your students) and making sure the bottom is reasonably thick so it doesn't get broken easily.

Other items:

Most teachers who use the other items during the programme, often source them straight from the students or utilise equipment the school already has.

**The programmes are not designed to have kids sharing instruments.

We have collected feedback straight from teachers about where they have sourced the equipment.  Some have found some pretty alternative ways to keep set up costs down. 

Drum sticks

• Although most get sticks straight from a music stores, for those who are a little more procurement savvy, then we suggest checking out amazon.com or alibaba.com to see if you can get a better deal.  Real sticks do break but are quite sturdy and should last a while.
• We have heard from a couple that they made there own sticks from dowel/wooden poles, with tape on the end.  They did mention these break easily but where significantly cheaper than buying real sticks.
• Some even used wooden spoons from home or a gold-coin donation to purchase some. 

Rubbish Bins and Lids:

• Most schools have been able to find what they need very easily from local hardware stores. Be sure to ask for a school discount as many schools have had success getting great discounts doing this.
• If you are located in New Zealand, Resene offers FREE 10L paint buckets and lids ordered straight from https://www.resene.co.nz/colorite/free-school-resources.html. We believe paint buckets are nowhere near as good as larger rubbish bins as they are not as tall and the lids don't have handles which is required for some programmes, however we understand school arts budgets can sometimes just not quite stretch to full bins (as used in the programme). 
• Some have even used cheap plastic buckets from there local dollar store.   These people have just chosen to come up with other options when LID work is taught.   We don't recommend this but we wanted to include options that teachers have chosen.

**We don't recommend some of these cheaper ways but we wanted to include all the options that teachers have chosen...as we understand each schools needs and limits are different.

Everything works well within your classroom, but many teachers choose to move the class to their school hall where they can really let loose with the volume.

Rad Rhythm has a large range of programmes that are designed for students from years 1 to 7 students (Ages 5-12).

Each programme has the suggested age levels listed. e.g. ages 5-6.

Each programme is different as is each lesson within each programme. For the larger programmes you will be best to set aside 45-50mins in your teaching plan to allow for set up and pack down either side of the lesson.

Some videos are shorter than others because sometimes you're left to do a task as a class at the end, meaning the video finishes but the lesson continues on until the teacher wraps up the final class exercise.

Some of the shorter programmes are broken down into 5-10min exercises that all work together to a big performance piece. It's totally up to you how many sections you'd like to teach on one day. Some teachers spread it out over a whole term, others cram it into a couple weeks. You're the boss! ;)

Absolutely!

Every programme is broken down in to sections that allow you to choose how quickly you'd like to move through the programme. Some teachers take 1-2 terms, and others ave a more intensive focus and power through in a couple weeks.

We recommend not spreading it out over more than 1 term wherever possible, as you will start to lose momentum and retention of the material.

Sure thing! There is a link at the top of this webpage where you can sign up for a 7-day FREE TRIAL, which will give you an overview of a bunch of programmes.  

If you're having issues with slow videos, 99% of the time it will be a problem at your end and not ours. Here are some helpful tips to work through if you're having lagging issues:

• Check with your IT people to make sure our website and video hosting website are not blocked. (www.radrhythm.com and Kajabi.com). Your IT person will know your system and security settings, so start with them first.

• Do you have full strength on your wi-fi from where you were running the program? or are there some dark patches across the school that don't get full strength? If there are dark patches, then your IT person will be able to help solve this issue.

• Are there other programs open on your computer that are draining the wi-fi? This could be multiple web pages, or other programs that could run in the background e.g dropbox. Shut down or pause such programs so that your computer is able to concentrate it's power on the one program.

Please note: HD videos are automatically shown to viewers when the size of the player and their connection speed can support it. When they can't support the bandwidth, the SD version of the video is displayed. This all happens automatically without any extra effort on your part, but you have control to manually change it on the video player.

To change the quality of the video, simply click the little settings cog on the video player.

No, all teacher workbooks are provided in PDF form for you to print as many copies as you'd like.