A browser-based music studio where several students can work on the same project. Use Soundtrap for Education accounts so pupils are kept inside the school's own group.

Creative Amplify

Grade 8 groups record a three-minute radio drama in the style of The War of the Worlds

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 150 min · 1 device per group of 3-4, with headsets

Creative Amplify

Groups script and record a three-minute radio drama told through invented news bulletins, layering voices, sound effects and silence in one shared Soundtrap project.

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Persuasive writing: a 60-second radio appeal for charity week recorded in Soundtrap

Grade 6 (Year 7, age 11 to 12) · 120 min · 1 device per group of 3

Creative Amplify

Groups of three turn a written appeal for the school's charity week into a 60-second radio advert in Soundtrap, redrafting the script each time they hear it played back, and the chosen adverts are played in assembly.

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Causes of the First World War: two-voice Soundtrap podcast on German responsibility

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 100 min · 1 device per pair, with headsets

Creative Amplify

Pairs script and record a five-minute Soundtrap podcast in which one voice argues Fischer's case against Germany and the other Clark's 'sleepwalkers' case, re-recording until each argument lands.

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Four-episode French podcast series made for the school's Grade 8 learners

Grade 12 (Year 13, age 17 to 18) · 240 min · 1 device per pair (the dialogue needs two voices)

Creative Amplify

Pairs script and record four short French podcast episodes on A-level themes, pitched for Grade 8 learners, with two-voice dialogue, a music bed and a glossary for each.

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Grade 6 groups layer a 90-second forest-dawn soundscape in one Soundtrap project

Grade 6 (Year 7, age 11 to 12) · 50 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Creative Amplify

Groups of four each build a 90-second forest-dawn soundscape in a shared Soundtrap project, with every student composing one layer.

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Grade 8 four-part round sung and layered by one voice in Soundtrap

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 50 min · 1 device per student plus headphones and a mic

Creative Amplify

Each student records every entry of 'London's Burning' themselves, staggers the entries two bars apart, balances them and adds a part of their own.

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Interactive Amplify

Grade 8 peer critique of 30-second film cues on harmony, rhythm and texture

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 50 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Interactive Amplify

Students upload their Soundtrap film cues to Padlet, three named peers each comment on harmony, rhythm or texture with a time marker, and composers reply with their revision plan.

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This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.