Benefits of learning music...

Decades of neuroscience research on music education have shown that music benefits children in so many wonderful ways beyond musical skills.    

Musical engagements for children in a child's early years is very much a sensory and emotional experience. Such experiences can have a significant impact on their overall development including:

• social cognition - children learn to interpret the suggestions and intentions of teachers and peers; they learn how to listen, sit in a circle and cooperate  with attention, care and joy to make music

• coordination of actions; motor skills development - how they sing, dance and play alongside others in a joyful and collaborative setting

• very importantly, listening skills

   

  just to name a few... 

   

  The  above skills apart from sparking joy in music making, will also indirectly get them school ready.

   

  As their music skills develop, the continued musical engagements will foster lifelong skills  such as creativity, confidence, teamwork and adaptability. 

Here is what experts in cognitive science have to say:-

Here is what the legendary music educator, the late Richard Gill had to say about the value of music education.

He said "music opens up the mind of a child in extraordinary ways", fosters abstract thinking, enhances listening skills and cultivates creativity in children. This suggests therefore that learning music is paramount and not to be regarded as a mere extra curricular activity!