Schools and Music Hubs
A child with speech and language difficulties found it difficult to communicate his thoughts. He now loves the songs and even leads the class during music when we are practising the songs.
-Year 3 Class Teacher from a Hackney Primary School
Each year the Foundation works with primary and secondary schools delivering a range of projects. During the 2022-23 season we will be working with schools in London, Bradford, Bournemouth and Poole and Nottingham delivering a number of projects all of which will culminate in performances with participating schools and VOCES8 or Apollo5.
Our partnerships with Hackney Music Service and Tower Hamlets Arts and Music have enabled us to reach thousands of children across Hackney and Tower Hamlets through workshops in schools and specially designed workshops and concerts at the VOCES8 Centre. Projects with primary school children and their teachers include Sing Every Day, Postcard Adventures with Peanut and Butter and our newest programme, Sing Together.
Sing Together began in 2021 with a pilot project bringing one London primary school class and one elementary school class in Albuquerque New Mexico together through singing. During the 2022-2023 season 4 primary schools and 4 elementary schools will participate in this project working with our singing leaders, sharing songs, and exchanging letters and postcards.
One of our most popular secondary school projects in the Young Leader Programme. Students from secondary schools work with our singing leaders learning how to lead a workshop for primary school children. The young leaders then visit their local primary schools together with our singers where they lead workshops for the primary school children.
We have also set up Music Hubs in the US, find out more here
I have explored new areas of leadership and it helped me step out of my comfort zone.
- London Young Leader, 2022
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