One of Cardiff’s best performing schools has dropped is dropping GCSE music against a backdrop of city-wide budget cuts. The option for year 10s to start the GCSE music course in September won’t be available at Corpus Christi Catholic High, which is known for its excellent standard of music.
Parents said music was on the GCSE option list for year nines choosing subjects for next year and year 11, but was then removed at short notice. Schools and teaching unions have been warning that subjects will be cut and jobs lost as a result of rising prices and what are effectively real-terms budget cuts.
Last week one Cardiff headteacher warned education was being “diminished. Huw Powell from Mary Immaculate RC High said good teachers would be lost and pupil support as well as options would reduce.
