Music is a valuable experience for children, contributing to their emotional and social education and promoting positive wellbeing. There are 20,925 primary schools in the UK, each of which has a music subject leader whose role is to coordinate the teaching of the Music National Curriculum, either by teaching it themselves or by bringing in other music services.
This article reviews the current challenges of being a teacher of classroom music in primary schools. I will explain how the University of Reading is trying to address this through its Initial Teacher Training (ITT), where I am the subject leader for the BA in Primary Education (Qualified Teacher Status/QTS) with Music Specialism. Ours is one of the few undergraduate programmes that train students to become music subject leaders in primary schools, combining university-level music study with training in music teaching, supported by placements in schools with experienced music practitioners.
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