I teach part time music in schools. I think that the way it is taught in most schools at the moment is useless. How can you teach 30 students music at the say time? It just ends up in chaos. Students have no respect fot their equipment and then are not able to achieve something that could be taught in 10 mins in a one-to-one or small group setting. Group sizes should be made alot lot smaller. Even if it is the case that students have intense periods of music training in smaller time frames during their school life. This way the lessons will give each student alot more attention and allowed them to try out a large range of things such as instruments and tech nology, which is not possible in large classes. This way they can really see the results of what playing an instrument or learning how to read or bringing sounds together is. This way students can start to see music as a good subject to learn about which provides an avenue of expression, not an excuse to have a dos and muck about, which is how it is seen in most cases in secondary schools. In my opinon, a massive reform is needed and how music lessons ( especially at KS3) is taught in schools. We are no longer back to basics we need to move with the times and find a new way of teaching music in schools so that it inspires students. From my experience at Year 8,9 10,11 most students are not interested in singing songs and hymns. Its like trying to get blood of a stone.