This course qualifies you to be a secondary teacher of music in England and Wales. Music is a universal language. By teaching this subject, you will be responsible for unlocking your pupils’ creativity, as well as developing their love of music and their ability to express themselves. A quality music education will play an important role in young people’s learning, whether they go on to become talented, adept musicians or just gain a deeper understanding of different forms and styles of music. You can help your pupils develop not only enduring instrumental and composition skills, but passions and interests that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The course will support you to develop as a great music teacher who can bring the subject to life by devising and delivering a diverse range of engaging lessons that educate and excite all pupils. The subject studies element of your training programme enables you to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of music in the secondary school context. You will learn how to devise and deliver lessons that creatively tackle the challenges of your subject. You will be guided by specialist tutors who have relevant teaching experience and who often contribute to educational research, policy and curriculum developments in your subject. You will learn about children and child development in the core Active Inquiry and Technology-Enhanced Learning modules with the rest of the Secondary PGCE cohort.