The KS3 Music Education Hub is a free music curriculum and online resource for 11-14 year olds. A musical taxonomy of cognitive steps supercharges creativity, ownership, identity and independence while students create and manage an online portfolio that showcases their unique musical journey. The curricular aims are as follows:

• To promote confidence and identity; preparing students for GCSE, A-Level and IB courses.

• To enable seamless transition between classwork and any eventuality where students need to work from home.

• To develop independence and decision making.

• To assess how students access music cognitively, in order to remove the subjective or limiting nature of standardised music assessment.