An inner-city secondary school that transformed behaviour and results after giving every new student a violin and three years of music lessons could have its success replicated across the country.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nicola Benedetti are patrons of the scheme, which is being taken beyond London for the first time and eventually aims to reach every school in England.
Jenny Smith, head of Frederick Bremer School in Walthamstow, east London, which has run the scheme for five years, said: “The school is unrecognisable from where it was in 2014. We are celebrating the best results the school has ever had. Music is thriving and it is infectious. Music is absolutely at the heart of the school, and not an add-on.”
Truda White, a head
