Overall aim: 

Improving opportunities for children to continue with their music making after they move to secondary school

Key messages:

• Music projects can help children with the transition from primary to secondary school.  
• 10-12 - it is a key time for children in their musical development and as consumers of music
• 10-12 - it is also when children start making choices, asserting their identity and music is a ‘safe place’ to do this

Rationale

Youth Music is targeting the 10-12 years age group as this is the key time when children give up on their music-making.

Youth Music has observed that many children give up because the practices, infrastructures and strategy needed to support music-making at this crucial stage is not always in place.

Youth Music is investing significant funds to address this issue.

Specific aims and activities

• To increase the number of children making music after their transition to secondary school in and out of school hours
• To provide evidence that transition music programmes provide benefit to a child’s social, educational and personal development