Description

The Song Room – Engaging Young People Through Creativity

The Song Room Vision is that all Australian children have the opportunity to participate in music and the arts to enhance their education, personal development and community involvement. The Song Room is a National not-for-profit organisation that provides opportunities for enhanced learning and development for disadvantaged children through music and creative arts.

Whilst international research has demonstrated the children who learn music and arts have improved educational, social and personal outcomes; currently in Australia, up to 3 out of 4 children in Government Primary School have no music teachers . That equates to over 700,000 children missing out and often they are the children who need it the most.

The Song Room targets its long-term, free and tailored programs to disadvantaged children who would otherwise not have such opportunities, including socio-economically disadvantaged children, urban and rural Indigenous youth, children with learning, health or behavioural challenges, new migrant arrivals and children for whom English is a second language, children at risk of juvenile crime involvement, very young children (0-5 years) in disadvantaged areas and children in geographically isolated and remote regions.

So far The Song Room has reached over 150,000 disadvantaged children with its unique, free and tailored programs and is currently reaching over 40,000 disadvantaged children per year.

Trends in School Music Provision in Australia (The Stevens Report, 2003)
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Website

The Song Room

State

Victoria

Social Category

Arts/Culture/Heritage