Here at the Mobile Music School, we pride ourselves on delivering high quality music for primary schools through short programmes, workshops and after school programmes. In all of our music for schools programmes, students are immersed in a highly energetic, fun-filled music-making session.
Today, we’ll be discussing Our Let’s Explore short programme for primary schools- what it is, what’s involved, and when a school might be interested. Read on to learn more about this extremely popular primary school programme!
Music For Primary Schools- The Ethos behind Let’s Explore
Based on the 3 core strands of the primary school music curriculum, our Let’s Explore short programme aims to immerse children into the world of music. Developed as a pre-instrumental programme, these classes aim to give children a solid musical foundation. Students can then build upon this foundation in the future by learning to play a musical instrument. This is an ideal first step for a school’s musical journey.
The programme aims to:
- give every child a solid and practical introduction to the world of music, musical terminology and self-expression
- increase the level of interest and engagement of music as a subject in schools
- give primary school teachers a set of practical activities and skills that they can incorporate into their own music lessons
What do the lessons involve?
Our short programme usually last from anywhere between 6-18 weeks. Our tutor will come to your school weekly, and take the same classes each week. A full day consists of either 6x45mins classes, or 8×30 mins. Let’s explore is suitable for all primary school age groups.
During classes, students discover that music tells a story. With the help of our professional tutors, they explore the role of the conductor, investigate the importance of percussion, and learn about dynamics, tempo, mood, the beat and rhythm. Students learn and perform songs, compose music using set sounds and play along to music.
This short music programme can culminate in a classroom performance of the songs and percussion music learned during the programme, should the school wish to avail of this, with many schools hosting school concerts and showcases at the end of the programme. Our tutors encourage the children to move to music, express themselves through movement and internalise musical concepts. Children also gain the ability to read music notation, understand the concepts of rhythm, pulse, pitch tone and timbre.
If one of our music programmes is of interest to you, please contact us to discuss what we can do for you in further detail.
