Strange - and worrying - that these two messages appear side-by-side in my feed this morning:

Listening to Ed Watkins on latest Music Teachers Association
podcast talking about A-level music grading issues, I hope he manages to make waves about this, as for a while I've been fruitlessly asking about disparity in A* grades awarded between music & maths & getting nowhere! Reposting image:

DfE data out today. Initial back-of-an-envelope analysis shows numbers of trainees achieving QTS in secondary music seems to be the lowest it's been for some years. Not sure what this means for the future of the profession though?

In recognition of it being the centenary of the birth of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, am listening to his versions of BWV56, 4, and a personal favourite, BWV82. Ahh....

I know it sounds pedantic to privilege the verbal form, but in music classroom terms, I think using the word "composing" matters in the school classroom, as I explain in www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/qa/q...

Happy Birthday, The Mikado! 14/3/1885 First performance. Picture from last week's show by Birmingham Savoyards at the Old Rep in Brum.

Just revisiting the Model Music Curriculum, and am reminded of this piece of helpful advice contained therein:

Interesting DEMOS report from Music Mark
available at musicmark.org.uk/news/160m-in... The headline is this:

Prof. Martin Fautley, together with Ally Daubney wrote the new curriculum documents which are available for all music educators to access.

Music is an essential part of a rich a broad curriculum, use this framework to create joyful engagement of music within the classroom. @ism-music.bsky.social

Interesting article by @sgtoyne.bsky.social . Includes this gem (attached)...

Well, err...