Look around any Key Stage 3 classroom, in any school, anywhere in England. You will see multiple subconscious percussionists drumming fingers on books or tapping pens on tables. At my school we decided, in the grips of the pandemic, that we would harness these childhood fidgets into a skills-focused spiral curriculum concentrated entirely on percussion playing and artistic citizenship.
For context, the school is a vastly expanding, successful secondary school, having recently developed from an upper school to a fully-fledged 11–19 secondary school. It quickly transpired that students were arriving in Year 7 aged 11 years old with very little prior musical experience or continued musical education.
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