Top 5 Trinity UK & Ireland Music & Drama blogs of 2025
BY: Natalie Christopher
17 December 2025
As we start to wind down the Trinity Music & Drama blog for another year, we are taking a moment to recap on some of the posts you, our readers, have enjoyed most. Scroll down to see our top 5 most viewed…
How to make music theory the best part of your KS3 music lessons
Our most popular blog post of the year explores teaching music theory in secondary classrooms, addressing common challenges and making suggestions for how teachers could overcome them. We’re so pleased that readers have found this useful!
Top 8 transferable skills developed through drama
Making the case of drama has never been easier with this blog post! Its aim is simple: to highlight that taking part in drama activities isn’t purely about learning to act. Students gain far more through the development of skills that will equip them throughout their lives.
Introducing Trinity College London’s 2025 Strings syllabus
This summer we launched our refreshed Strings syllabus and this post provides the perfect overview of the updates made. Whether you want to know about changes to requirements or new publications, you’ll find all the information you need to know here.
Harnessing technology for Digital Music exams: a comprehensive guide
We regularly receive enquiries from teachers, particularly drummers, who want to know how they can use technology to aid them when recording digital music exams. This post aims to address all of those queries, outlining exactly what you can and can’t do in this context.
Common reasons why graded music exams are referred and how to avoid them
Our fifth most popular blog post of 2025 addresses the sometimes prickly issue of what happens when an exam doesn’t fully meet the syllabus requirements. In this blog, we look at some of the most common reasons why exams are referred, and what candidates and teachers should look our for to avoid them. We’ll be publishing another of these style blogs addressing diploma-related referrals in 2026 so make sure to look out for that!
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