Musical Futures and the National Strategy for Key Stage 3 Music are two new initiatives that share a common aim: to improve music teaching and learning in Key Stage 3 Music and to enhance the musical lives of students, in and out of school.
Neither approach is compulsory or didactic, instead both have been designed to enable teachers to integrate some of all of the philosophies, methodologies and ideas into their own practice. This document aims to outline the core similarities between the two initiatives and to offer suggestions for where the approaches differ. This is intended as a guide for teachers and hopes to demonstrate that teachers can deliver the National Strategy and Musical Futures simultaneously.
