The quality of music teaching in primary schools is patchy, writes Isabel de Bertodano, but two programmes in Liverpool are now showing the rest how it should be done When the Government released its long-awaited policy paper “The importance of music: a national plan for music education” in 2011, saying that all children must have access to music in primary school, the move was widely welcomed.Music was recognised as having an impact on discipline and confidence as well as academic work. Since then, £171 million has been invested in new music hubs across the country, which are expected to help all schools improve their provision. However, Ofsted declared last year that little had changed in two-thirds of schools.As the pianist James Rhodes found when he went to St Teres