Regardless of the multiple factors that affect what schools are able to offer and why, student engagement with
performing seems to play a major factor in why they choose to take music at all. With music at KS2 and KS3
under threat in many UK schools, and a lack of consistent approaches to curriculum topics and to the teaching
and learning of composition, performing is often the only benchmark that can be used to decide on how
appropriate the choice of music as a KS4 subject might be.

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