Blogs
20th August 2022
WCET and Progression: challenges and opportunities
In this blog, our newly appointed consultant Nick Beach considers the challenges and opportunities to consider when creating progression pathways… Continue reading WCET and Progression: challenges and opportunities
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27th June 2022
Creating a Music Development Plan
The long-awaited National Plan for Music Education in England was released this weekend, giving music educators up and down the… Continue reading Creating a Music Development Plan
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27th May 2022
The National Plan for Music Education (Wales)
The recently published National Plan for Music Education in Wales sets out the Welsh government’s vision and support plan for… Continue reading The National Plan for Music Education (Wales)
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1st April 2022
Time for a triple-threat curriculum?
While Rose Ayling-Ellis & Giovanni Pernice proved that you can have dancing without sound, the dramatic contrast achieved in their… Continue reading Time for a triple-threat curriculum?
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15th February 2022
Where is music education going?
The writing has been on the wall for a while. The publication of the Model Music Curriculum, the subsequent shoehorning… Continue reading Where is music education going?
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2nd February 2022
Standards in Primary Music
One of the questions that I get asked most often is what ‘standard’ should pupils be at music when they… Continue reading Standards in Primary Music
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20th January 2022
Why training must be at the heart of the new NPME
The National Plan for Music Education is being ‘refreshed’ and we are led to believe we may see it at… Continue reading Why training must be at the heart of the new NPME
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3rd December 2021
Progression in the Expressive Arts
Currently, most of music education discourse is related in some way to the idea of progression. It might be semantic… Continue reading Progression in the Expressive Arts
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12th November 2021
Music and Meaning
Most of us would agree that music means something to us, but does music have objective ‘meaning’ of its own?… Continue reading Music and Meaning
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