Woo Hoo!! Congratulations Nathaniel Miller for being crowned the 2024 ARIA Music Teacher Award winner! Talk about celebrating excellence in Arts Learning!

It’s not just the night of nights for musicians! They’re sharing the red carpet with Australia’s most talented music teachers.
The ARIA Music Teacher of the Year winner will be announced in just a few hours, and we’ve got a great set of nominees.

On Saturday, the incredible Sister Act The Musical Australia team helped us to raise funds for more Aussie kids to access arts learning at the beautiful Regent Theatre.

When Geelong kids team up with professional opera singers, magic happens! Students from Grovedale West Primary School and Geelong East PS had the incredible experience of designing, creating, and performing their own opera.

Orelia Primary School students in WA brought the tunes and the smiles into the classroom during their Ukulele lesson this week.

FACEBOOK – VOTING CLOSES NEXT WEDNESDAY! This is the final week to get behind your favourite music teacher and help choose who get this year’s ARIA Music Teacher Award. Let’s get loud and celebrate music education!

Don’t miss out! Now is the time to register for a Song Room program in 2025!
Transform your school’s educational experiences and outcomes for both students and teachers with an impactful arts learning program.

Promote curiosity and wonder through ARTS:LIVE! Learn about threatened species, make connections between food, music, and sustainability, discover how plants release natural dyes, and explore real-world integration of digital technologies

What a week and incredible week of learning!
A massive shoutout to all the amazing teachers who joined our Professional Learning sessions across Victoria for the Music in Schools (MiS) Teacher Mentoring Program! Your enthusiasm and dedication to enriching music education is truly inspiring

Meet the multi-tasking music marvel, Susan Sukkar from Petersham Public School, one of this year’s dedicated ARIA Music Teacher Award nominees! Susan was joined by children’s entertainer Emma Memma to celebrate her nomination.

Nathaniel Miller, congratulations on your nomination for the ARIA Music Teacher Award.

Through the continual development of music education at Bulman School and deepening links to culture, Nathaniel works with elders and the Community to preserve endangered languages through music.

Have you had a chance to meet this year’s ARIA Music Teacher Award nominees yet? Over the next few days, we will share each of their stories.

Today, meet Hayley Wedding from Seaview High School! Hayley has created a record label within the school to help students connect and create. Thanks Sarah McLeod for presenting Hayley with her nomination.

We’re thrilled to announce the ARIA Awards Music Teacher nominees!

Huge congratulations to:

• Susan Sukkar – Petersham Public School, Lewisham NSW
•  Nathaniel Miller – Bulman School, Katherine NT
•  Casey Allen – PLC Sydney, Croydon NSW
•  Hayley Wedding – Seaview High School, Seacombe Heights SA

The Song Room is proud to partner with ARIA to hero these incredible music teachers and shine a light on music education through this award!

The students and staff at Tyabb Railway Station Primary School have a special message for you…

A HUGE thank you to everyone who voted for Tyabb Railway Station Primary School! The students are absolutely thrilled and grateful to have your support

It was great to see such a huge turnout of engaged teachers at our PL event, Developing Culturally Safe Schools Through the Arts, led by acclaimed author, educator and proud Gamilaroi woman Kylie Captain!

Thank you Kylie for your generous and inspiring guidance. We loved learning from you.

It’s time to start prepping for the new term! Are you looking for a way to bring and connection and joy through the arts into your classroom? The Song Room can help! The Song Room programs are designed for everyone, regardless of experience or background. Here’s what our teachers are saying after participating in our Programs.

Find out more today! Songroom.org.au/contact-us/

Want to learn something new these school holidays? How about picking up a new instrument? Learning an instrument improves memory, focus, and teamwork. Plus, it builds confidence and relieves stress. Music unlocks a world of benefits!
Learn over 12 lessons in ‘How to Play Guitar’ course on ARTS:LIVE.com
https://www.artslive.com/courses/how-to-play-the-guitar/

Happy NAIDOC Week. We’d like to thank our amazing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teaching Artists who generously share their knowledge, culture and creativity. Through your amazing work you empower young people and build connection, understanding and pride in the oldest living culture in the world.

Looking to improve student wellbeing in Term 3? The Song Room Arts and Wellbeing program uses Arts Learning to teach social and emotional skills to support wellbeing and learning. Tailored to each school, the program offers various delivery sessions.

This Reconciliation Week, explore music & culture with ARTs:Live Deadly Arts collection “Together We Sing on Noongar Boodja”!

To find out more: https://bit.ly/3HSTpAo
#ArtsLearning #DeadlyArts #ReconciliationWeek #TheSongRoom

More than just a beat! Why drumming is a powerful tool for student development.
Learning to drum isn’t just about getting loud, it can also help students with essential development.

Our Talented Teaching Artist, Ceridwyn Gordon organised students at Grovedale West Primary School to perform in their Indigenous Garden this week. Working closely with the classroom teachers, Ceridwyn and the Year 1 and 2 students prepared this beautiful performance that incorporated both Auslan and Wadawurrung language.

National Reconciliation Week is fast approaching!
Explore our Deadly Arts collection on ARTS:LIVE for inspiration on how to engage students in meaningful learning experiences that celebrate and foster cultural understanding and respect for Country through the arts.
Register today at www.artslive.com

Make the most of your Victorian Schools Mental Health Fund to get a 10 week in-class Song Room program.

Explore cultural learning with a Song Room Deadly Arts First Nations programs. Get in touch if you’d like to learn more.

Teachers! ‘Introducing Formative Assessment’ is a super helpful resource to help you plan, gather and interpret student learning in the music classroom as it happens.

The power of arts education is undeniable. Read about how similar trauma-informed techniques that are used by our teaching artists, like drama and drumming, are benefiting children living with the trauma and upheaval of bushfires in the US.

https://edsource.org/…/can-arts-education-help…/707494

Big thanks to the Department of Education, Victoria for supporting teachers in building their capacity and confidence to deliver high quality music education everyday through the Music in Schools program with The Song Room.

We love getting feedback from our students.
We agree. Let’s dance twice a week
Visit our website to learn more: https://www.songroom.org.au/

Songs have been used to educate, soothe and organise students for longer than the written word! Transition Songs for Early Years on ARTS:LIVE offers a collection of fifteen brief, practical songs designed for regular integration to establish a tranquil, cohesive, and well-organised classroom.

And we’re back! Thanks to our Teaching Artist who joined us this week to kick off the new school year. Everyone has had a great break and is ready to get back into an exciting year of arts learning. Thanks to The Song Room’s arts learning team for hosting an informative, inclusive and inspiring session. Welcome back everyone!

“I could not have asked for anything more fitting for our school! The program did everything I wanted it to and more. The flexibility was outstanding, students happy smiling faces and our classroom teachers learning alongside them was a wonderful
experience.” Participating principal, Arts and Wellbeing Program, School’s Mental Health Menu.

Start the year off on a positive 🎵 by signing up to a positive mental health program for your school. Get all the info you need to access the Victorian Schools Mental Health Fund and Menu in 2024, in a PL session run by Department of Education, Victoria Student Mental Health Branch (SMHB).

Last year The Song Room was a nominee in the South Australia Public Education Awards. It’s easy to see why the program was so popular with teachers, principals and students in 2023! Thanks to Department for Education, South Australia for capturing the program so beautifully in this video.

Sustainable Songs is a great activity for school holiday fun, using vegetables or basic materials you’ll find in your kitchen! You don’t need to be an expert. We’ve supplied all the instructions you need to make the instruments and play the catchy song!

Don’t throw out that wrapping paper or ribbon. Get creative with your kids by using our easy to follow videos on ARTS:LIVE.
Recycle and reuse in the most creative way! Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4asDUyv
#artslearning #art #waste #repurpose #landfill #creativity #collaboration

Song Room Teaching Artists. Thank you! Your amazing skills and talent filled 2023 with song, dance, awesome art and great learning! You are the beating heart of The Song Room See you next year for more transformative arts learning!!

Teachers, use this resource to help tidy up before the end of year! Junk percussion on ARTS:LIVE will take your students on a creative musical journey during the final weeks of term. They’ll learn to make and play instruments out of classroom waste. Creative learning and a clean classroom. BOOM!

Find out more https://bit.ly/470oX4D

What an amazing gathering of students, teachers and partners to connect and celebrate their Transformational Learning through Creativity (TLC) program in Geelong. The ‘Big Day of Learning’ brought together three Geelong schools who have taken part TLC over the last three years. The best bit was we saw students from different schools working together, strengthening #connections to their #learning, #community, and each other. New BFFs? We hope so!

Thank you Education NT for sharing! The Song Room’s Teaching Artists Steve and Neneh worked with local Mimal Countryman, Nathaniel Miller, and students from Bulman School to write the song, play the instruments, and the record the music and video. So brilliant.

Bring it on Geelong! What an amazing gathering of students, teachers and partners to connect and celebrate their Transformational Learning through Creativity (TLC) program in Geelong.

The ‘BIG Day of Learning’ brought together three Geelong schools who have taken part TLC over the last three years.

Facebook – This festive season give more than a gift. Donate to The Song Room and to help create opportunities for children to thrive in school and in life.
Arts learning gives confidence, connection and opportunity. Please give today!

https://the-song-room-2023-appeal.raisely.com/

Youtube – Claymation – Punchbowl Public School

Check out this fantastic clay animation project created by Year 5 students at Punchbowl Public School, as part of a Song Room arts learning project, led by teaching artist Ludwig El Haddad.

Facebook – It’s Children’s Week!! Time to celebrate the talents, skills, achievements and rights of all children!  What is your school getting up to?

Twitter (X) – The arts provides a fantastic way for students to express their feelings, discover and learn tricky concepts and collaborate together on new ideas.

Here is what one of our students had to say! #ChildrensWeek #artslearning

Facebook – Did you know a Song Room program can lift school attendance, social-emotional wellbeing, academic performance, and community involvement for Australian school children?
Get a program in your school for 2024. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3ycVtBm

Youtube – ‘Nidjarra’ was written and recorded in 2023 as part of a workshop run by The Song Room in Bulman School, Central Arnhem Land, NT., supported by The Smith Family, Katherine.

Facebook – Introducing Formative Assessment’ on ARTS:LIVE provides teachers with practical and printable student reflections, rubrics and exit tickets that can be used as part of formative assessment in the music classroom!
Register today and start planning! https://bit.ly/3RVfZko

Facebook – Lift your spirits with a feel-good video. Check out the many ways music education helps young people thrive with the amazing music teachers who are in the running for the 2023 Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Award. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite before Wed 8 Nov. aria.com.au/vote

Facebook – Happy World Teachers Day to all of the incredible teachers, teaching artists, education support staff and educators who work hard every day to inspire the next generation….

Facebook – Term 4 is the time to celebrate learning, create community and build school culture. If you are looking for activities to help connect your class or you plan to bring the entire school together in celebration, you’ll find a heaps of resources to make Term 4 stress free on ARTS:LIVE….

Here’s a fun one for the holidays.
Take your kids back to the prehistoric era while they design and construct their very own endangered animal puppets with Designosaurs on ARTS:LIVE! Read more…

Facebook – Our arts learning programs are designed to give children from all backgrounds the best possible start in life by enhancing their education, wellbeing and community involvement. Get a program in your school https://bit.ly/47TUc2e

Facebook – Students at Noble Park English Language School have been busy exploring self-expression through different art mediums this term to learn more about themselves and their peers. Find out more…

Facebook – Don’t miss out! Explore solutions to principals’ key strategic priorities of 2024 through the arts with fellow principals and Dr Tanya Vaughan, Senior Research Fellow, ACER.

Facebook – Keep your students engaged through these last few weeks of term with arts learning! Develop creativity and thinking skills and improve concentration all while having fun.

Facebook – Thank you to everyone who has supported the ‘Arts Learning Gives’ Appeal this year…

Instagram – Principals tell us that students want to come to school on days that The Song Room is at their school. 🎨 🎶❤️…

Youtube – Community Connection and Cultural Learning with Deadly Arts. Find our more..

LinkedIn – Every child deserves the right to become a lifelong learner. Please support The Song Room today…

Facebook – The Song Room music classes proudly performed at Newcomb Primary School Community Day…

Instagram – The Song Room has developed an innovate response to address the wellbeing crisis in schools…