ABSTRACT

Music is a foundation subject in the National Curriculum, yet it is taken for granted that musical activity in the vast majority of schools encompasses far more than timetabled class lessons. Normally, teachers organize a range of optional musical pursuits that take place in lunch hours, after school, sometimes at weekends, and often at venues beyond the school. In some cases, a school’s curriculum policy will be to group-related (or cognate) disciplines and in these circumstances music may be taught as part of a wider programme of arts education.