Thought it might be useful to share any useful & free internet resources for teachers.

I find these http://www.masquerade-music.co.uk/freemusic.html particularly useful - kids love the practise diary sheets. Though for disorganised pupils I do find a note book better.

www.mymusictheory.com is also fantastic, if a little dry for little kids.

www.imslp.org for virtually all music written before about 1900.
www.musescore.org - a free open source rival to Sibelius that both teachers and pupils can have on their own computers - a gamechanger.

I use IMSLP a lot and I find it very useful. I could never get the name right till I started calling it Gymslip.

Musescore I have, though I use Sibelius a lot; I find musescore very slow to use by comparison, but then I haven't used it enough yet to get uo a head of stem. It does seem to do most of the basic things that Sib does.

yes, I'm sure Sibelius is a bit better than musescore, but it's the handing over control to the pupil that's the special bit. Seeing it on their own screen, changing a part if it's too hard, clicking and dragging notes....

I use Musescore a lot. However, I haven't used it for sharing with pupils like this - how does it work lingle? How do they get to see your files? I've sent a file via email before, and they opened it in their Musescore at home. Is that what you mean?