Music and Design and Technology have been cut at a school in Kent. It’s a trend that could easily continue across other schools, writes Alice Wilde.
Look at all those instruments. What a fantastic lot of resources. Steelpans, trombones, keyboards, clarinets, cymbals – Imagine the amazing experiences that the kids will create with all that available to them.
It’s almost the end of term. Teachers across the land are moving things around, changing rooms, cramming stuff into boxes if they’re lucky enough to be getting a re-paint on the budget this summer. Maybe that’s why all these instruments are in an Art and Design area in a senior school in Kent?
But it’s not the reason why.
The actual reason is that there will be no more music at this school next year. It’s gone. Music has left the building... Keep reading on 'Half waving half drowning'
Look at all those instruments. What a fantastic lot of resources. Steelpans, trombones, keyboards, clarinets, cymbals – Imagine the amazing experiences that the kids will create with all that available to them.
It’s almost the end of term. Teachers across the land are moving things around, changing rooms, cramming stuff into boxes if they’re lucky enough to be getting a re-paint on the budget this summer. Maybe that’s why all these instruments are in an Art and Design area in a senior school in Kent?
But it’s not the reason why.
The actual reason is that there will be no more music at this school next year. It’s gone. Music has left the building... Keep reading on 'Half waving half drowning'