The shift to Marimba Band and Bucket Drumming in Years 5 and 6 is a direct response to the curriculum’s requirement that students perform music ‘in a range of forms’ in ‘informal and/or formal settings.’ Individual songs with percussion accompaniment—the format that works beautifully in Years 1 through 4—doesn’t give students the ensemble depth, the formal performance experience, or the range of musical forms the upper primary curriculum requires. Marimba Band and Bucket Drumming do. They also happen to be formats that students find genuinely exciting to play and that make a real impression on audiences—which makes them ideal for the school concert or assembly performance the curriculum now explicitly expects.