The Song Room Vision
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
programs; this is fantastic progress and The Song Room is well on target to
reach over 200,000 disadvantaged children nationally by 2008 / 2009!
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It is great to see
children who only twelve months ago were disengaged from the school and
their
learning, but now have renewed enthusiasm and are being really positive in their
input
into the school.”
Graham Holmes,
Principal
Wyong
Public
School, NSW
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