HOW MUSIC IS HELPING PUPILS AT LUCKLEY TO THRIVE Music education readies students for learning by helping to develop their basic mental skills and capacities (How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve, and Succeed’ https://files.eric. ed.gov/fulltext/ED541070.pdf) Here at Luckley House School our pupils get many musical opportunities, both in their weekly lessons and enrichment through clubs, ensembles and trips. In Year 7 all pupils, in their first term, take part in a carousel of ‘Instruments of the Orchestra’.
They play, under the leadership of our specialist teachers, the instruments of the brass, string and woodwind family. We then encourage them to take up lessons. Learning a musical instrument or singing can help develop a child’s confidence and creativity, and sparks all areas of a child’s development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. We perform regular concerts at Luckley in our fantastic professional theatre, The Whitty Theatre.
Chilcott Choir with Bob Chilcott
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