In my previous school, in my role as head of music, I was asked to summarise the Model Music Curriculum (MMC) for the senior leadership team. I had five minutes. I made a few jokes about the various delays to its publication, summarised the key points and expressed my main concerns about the content. My superiors (colleagues) listened politely and my headteacher asked, ‘So do we need to do anything different? We're okay, right?’. My response: ‘Well...yes...everything is fine’. We quickly moved on to the other 99 problems arising in the school that afternoon. If I repeated the process following the release of the new National Plan for Music Education (NPME), I expect the conversation would have panned out in a very similar fashion.
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