Music Therapy Works / Educational Settings / Mainstream Children

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Educational Settings

MAINSTREAM CHILDREN

Educational Settings

MAINSTREAM CHILDREN

In the last few years mainstream schools have begun investing their Pupil Premium funding in Music Therapy in order to enhance each pupil’s social, emotional and mental well-being. It has also assisted in the child developing relationships with peers and improving their access to the curriculum.

Where possible MTW adopts an inclusive approach involving parents and carers to share sessions with their children. We also seek to work closely with surrounding school staff and multi-agency teams. We provide clear outcomes and objectives and can offer both long and short term interventions. Whenever possible transferable skills are passed to those supporting each child.

Music Therapy is an ideal medium for children who may not be able to access verbal counselling and need a safe environment to express their emotions. Work can be most effective when 1:1 and directed at individuals’ specific needs but small group work (maximum of 5 pupils) can be undertaken to address social and relational issues. Pupils do not need a musical background in order to benefit from music therapy.

Music Therapy can also help to support nurture group principles as it sets out to establish a safe, comfortable, secure environment where there is emphasis on helping pupils to explore feelings, encounter positive relationships with adults and with their friends.

Where nurture groups are in the process of being formed or even wish to introduce new elements, the Music Therapist can:

create a calm atmosphere
facilitate social skills
generate post-play discussion
address issues of bonding and attachment
support relaxation techniques
facilitate communication between adults and children.
The aim is to increase pupils’ abilities to express themselves and therefore improve academic understanding and social awareness skills and promote better engagement with the curriculum

If you are interested in discussing a music therapy service for your school further and would like more information, please feel free to contact MTW via our contact page. We are happy to visit school sites in order to discuss how we can provide a bespoke service suited to your particular school environment.

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

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