Great music education is a partnership between classroom teachers, specialist teachers, professional performers and a host of other organisations, including those from the arts, charity and voluntary sectors. Most children will have their first experience of music at school. It is important that music education of high quality is available to as many of them as possible: it must not become the preserve of those children whose families can afford to pay for music tuition. While music touches the lives of all young people, the disadvantaged can benefit most. Music helps bind pupils into the wider life of the school. Schools cannot do everything alone: they need the support of a wider local music structure.

At Wickersley Partnership Trust, we recognise the important role that music plays in children’s academic and social development and in improving the ethos of the school. We’ve split our music strands into two distinct parts as part of our Entitlement and Enrichment promise. All students are entitled to specialist, high-quality music provision, including wider opportunities instrument lessons. All students are offered high-quality, individual music tuition by professional tutors. This is our Enrichment provision.