MUSIC: COUNT US IN 2013

Thursday, 31st October 2013 @ 12:15pm

Music: Count Us In (Click the image to find out more)

Once again Austinmer Public School will be involved in the music initiative 'Music: Count Us In 2013'.

The children have been learning the song for the big countdown on Thursday 31st October and performing on the school oval, with the beach as our backdrop. Please feel free to come and count down with us as we take part in this nationwide event.

MCUI is Australia's biggest school initiative. With support from The Australian Government, it has run since 2007 and is all about celebrating the value of music education to students' development, whoever they are, wherever they are. It involves more than 600,000 students, teachers - and often parents – from schools all over Australia who sign up to learn, rehearse, then perform the same song, on the same day, at the same time.

Music: Count Us In is for all schools -  primary and secondary, State and independent, nationwide.

Decades of research show that learning music can help students' self-confidence, self-discipline and team work. It can help students who might have lost interest re-engage in school, can improve school attendance and can even help students make healthy life choices. PLUS there are strong links between music learning and academic skills in literacy and numeracy. Research shows that music is unique in its flow-on benefits to students who learn it.