GCSE Music - Teaching from 2025
For more information on the Professional Learning courses for the new Made-for-Wales GCSEs, please visit the Professional Learning page here.
The construct of the GCSE Music qualification is based on the Welsh Government subject specific considerations for the Expressive Arts. The qualification will:
- through the creative process, allow learners to explore, respond to stimuli and create and reflect on their own work while engaging in rich, authentic experiences.
The following concepts for the GCSE Music qualification are based on the Welsh Government statements of what matter for Expressive Arts:
- exploring the Expressive Arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables learners to become curious and creative individuals
- responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the Expressive Arts
- creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination.
The GCSE Music qualification will support the Curriculum for Wales by supporting the principles of progression by:
- encouraging learners to explore, experience, interpret, create and respond to increasingly complex meaning
- developing an increased sophistication of conceptual learning
- more sophisticated use of relevant skills and the ability to transfer existing skills and knowledge into new contexts.
Supporting our Made-for-Wales qualifications with FREE tailored resources
To support our centres in the delivery of our new Made-for-Wales qualifications, we are pleased to confirm that our Digital Resources Team will produce a package of FREE bilingual resources for each subject. This will initially feature 130 packages, which consist of blended learning resources and knowledge organisers for the first group of qualifications which will be taught from September 2025.
Publication schedule
Our Digital Resources Team will be working at pace to produce these new support materials. These will be published in phases beginning from late Autumn 2024, and the full suite of bilingual resources will be available by June 2025.
Further information is available here.
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