Outdoor Musical Instruments
Grant Amount: $19,254.37
Date In Effect: 2021
Schools Impacted: Goosehill
This grant included the purchase of outdoor musical instruments consisting of Tuned Drums (5 total), Swirl and Serenade at Goosehill Primary School.
The benefits of music, when combined with recess, can become an important part of children’s development and learning processes and include:
Cognitive Function: Music is beneficial to cognitive development and reasoning skills. It enhances memory, teaches persistence, and helps with organizational skills and time management.
Emotional Effect: Most kids love music — and making noise — so the ability to play their own instruments is FUN for them! Music can help nurture their creativity, confidence levels and self-expression. Music is also healing; it has been shown to help reduce stress, anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as boost your mood. Music makes us happier!
Physical Impact: Music has also been shown to affect us physically. Both listening to and playing music can enhance physical endurance, make you sleep better and improve blood-vessel function. These physical benefits can only have a positive impact on today's youth.
Social Interaction: Playing instruments together makes children focus and work together, boosting their social engagement. It helps kids to practice their listening skills and assists them in learning how to work together and develop a sense of community.
Inclusive Play: Adding musical instruments to your playground is an easy way to bring an inclusive element to an otherwise non-inclusive playground. Musical instruments are inclusive because they are designed to be played from all different heights and angles so that all kids can play them, including kids with mobility devices of any kind.
Unstructured play on the playground is an integral part of every child’s social, physical and cognitive development. Music also has been proven to positively affect a child’s development. By joining the two, you create a winning combination.