Postcard Pieces invites young people to create short compositions on a postcard. There is no need to use any traditional notation and it encourages young people to be imaginative and inventive in the way they communicate their ideas. Working on the small scale of a postcard also sets out to make composing seem less daunting a task and allows for ideas to be as simple or as complex as you want them to be. It also gives the young composers the opportunity to think about who their composition might be for – who would they send their postcard to? Who might their audience be?

Have a look at the fantastic postcard pieces produced by our lovely Year 5s and 6s.