Celebrating Finish This... 2024-25
An inclusive national music making programme for KS2, KS3 and SEND learners; inspiring young composers across the country.
“The recent Finish This project has completely raised the profile of composing in our school… It was the most exciting project, broke down so many barriers and was completely inclusive.”
Bringing together a fusion of opera, film and animation: Finish This… is a creative springboard for collaborative composition work in the classroom. Using an especially commissioned operatic piece, and supported with teacher CPD and toolkit package resources.
Over the 2024/25 academic year, 15,000 pupils from over 240 different schools across the country, have taken on the role of ENO Composer. We asked each class to create and produce their own music through an invitation to respond to, and resolve, Omar Shahryar’s purposefully unfinished operatic piece, ‘Blue, Red, Yellow’. Each class is tasked with choosing a fourth colour, and composing a 1-1.5 minute composition that represents their chosen colour and finishes off Omar’s piece.
Schools were provided with Teacher CPD training, toolkit resources, a suite of digital films and an operatic piece, especially commissioned for young audiences.
We are thrilled to present and celebrate the first music compositions and creative work here, with another two uploads to look forward to later in the year. A huge congratulations to all our young composers.
Participating Schools
Explore our interactive map to discover our 248 schools and hear some of their brilliant class music compositions.
You can select an option below to filter the displayed map markers to show KS2 Primary, KS3 Secondary or SEND schools, and click any marker to access submissions from that school.
What Teachers have to say:
In our feedback survey from the 2023-24 year:
- ‘I have been teaching Music in Special Schools around Manchester and Cheshire for 20 years and this is the most inclusive and exciting project I have seen over the years. The work Emily has done to truly ‘include’ SEND is brilliant. Well done ENO!’
- “This project is such a gift in ensuring that high quality composition is taught in schools. Having a design brief to focus on and a purpose really helped our children to hone their compositional skills. During our recent Outstanding Ofsted inspection, one child told the inspector that when they grow up, they would like to be a librettist!”
“This was such an inclusive project – we have a range of abilities in this class and every child was engaged and challenged, it was a joy to be a part of their creative journey! So much fun, and so much learning, thank you.“
“The children (and I!) have thoroughly enjoyed participating in this projects and appreciate the high quality resources and excellent communication we have received. “
“The children loved this project and they were more engaged in music then we have ever seen them before.”
“Thank you for this wonderful project. My class has absolutely loved creating their turquoise piece. They have learnt so much from this project about being a composer. Many have been inspired to test their creativity and have all spoken very warmly about the other things they have learnt from this experience. To persevere, work collaboratively, listen and improve, how to try out different ideas and listen for what works best , even when this means making tough choices about the sounds that didn’t work as well. Their focus and excitement about coming to music to work on this project has been amazing. “
‘Galaxy Purple’ by Class 10 from Hillborough Junior School
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‘Silver Sparkle’ by Kestrel Class from Beechwood Primary School
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Get Involved
COMING SOON: Booking for 2025-26 will open after the Easter Holidays.
If you wish to register your interest to take part in 2025/26, and would like to be kept updated as to when booking will open, please complete this short Expression Of Interest Form.
If you have any questions please contact the Finish This… team on [email protected] or for more information visit www.eno.org/finishthis
Credits:
Music composed by Omar Shahryar. Libretto by Ruth Mariner.
Conductor | Olivia Clarke, Actor | Mikhail Sen.
Illustrations by Alec Doherty. Films produced by Tmax Productions.
Primary Education Consultant: Sarah Lewis
SEND Education Consultant: Emily Stratford
Secondary Education Consultant: Isabella Mayne