Enriching Lives Through Music

At St Aidan’s our Junior School girls are offered the opportunity to participate in three carefully tailored age-appropriate enrichment programs – Beginner Strings (Year 2), Junior Singers (Years 2 and 3) and Beginner Band (Year 4).

By the end of these three years, students are inducted into these diverse yet complementary musical practices through regular lessons and group rehearsals with specialist staff.

The content for these programs is derived from the Everyday Music Classroom Program which is a unique program offered in the St Aidan’s Junior School. Everyday Music involves students being immersed in musical activities for twenty minutes each day, rather than having longer lessons less frequently.

The impact of this approach has been found to have a positive effect on students’ academic progress as well as their music learning. It is hoped that through students engaging in daily study of Music, their regular schooling results will also improve, producing highly educated and skilled minds.

Skills developed through the Everyday Program such as pitch, rhythm, social, physical, emotional, and intellectual capabilities are proliferated and expanded upon through participation with the enrichment programs. Additionally, the enrichment programs enable students to try a variety of modes of musical expression. Many girls go on to participate in the diverse extra-curricular music ensembles offered at St Aidan’s which further augments their music learning and related competencies.