Get to know your new GCSE Music pupils with this two-page welcome survey exploring musical experience, interests, performance, composing and goals.

This attractive first-lesson activity helps teachers understand each pupil’s musical background, current skills and ambitions for the GCSE Music course.

The survey explores:

• Instruments played
• Current and completed practical grades
• Favourite music to listen to
• Favourite music to perform
• Composition experience
• Ensembles, groups and choirs
• Musical goals for GCSE
• Music theory qualifications
• Previous performance experience
• Music software experience
• Longer-term musical ambitions
• Additional interests and information

The resource includes:

• Two coordinated A4 survey pages
• 13 carefully structured questions
• Clear checkboxes and pupil-friendly prompts
• Generous handwriting spaces
• Engaging musical imagery and notation
• Music Made Teachable branding
• High-resolution, print-ready PNG files

This resource is ideal for:

• The first GCSE Music lesson
• Back-to-school activities
• Year 10 or Year 11 induction
• Getting to know a new class
• GCSE option or transition sessions
• Informal baseline assessment
• One-to-one discussions and pupil target-setting
• Gathering information before planning performance and composition work

Pupil responses can help teachers identify existing instrumental experience, musical preferences, confidence, theory knowledge, performance history and areas requiring further development.

The design is colourful and engaging while remaining appropriate for secondary-school pupils. All response lines are comfortably spaced and fill the available writing areas.

Suitable for GCSE Music pupils and adaptable for Key Stage 3 classes preparing to begin GCSE study.