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Nagle Prize 2020

The Nagle Prize for 2020 is linked to the theme for our Student Conference that will be held at Mater Dei, Wagga Wagga: "A flame for the future."

Students are asked to interpret the meaning of this statement, in their design, linking it to Nano Nagle and the Presentation story.

Primary students (Prep - Year 8) are asked to create a design that will be printed onto an A5 size card (148mm x 105mm).

Secondary students (Years 9 - 12) are to create a design that can be used for a pull-up banner. The dimensions for the design are 1500mm (height) x 840mm (width).

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Music Learning Helps Literacy

A large body of rigorous and validated research points to a strong connection between music education and language development. This line of inquiry emerged from the observation that musically trained children tended to perform better in standardised tests on language, acquire language including words, syntax and prosody more effectively and earlier, and utilise language more effectively.

Research studies have now found that this is possibly due to the overlapping of brain regions recruited during music and language processing. Further research has found that music education trains the auditory processing network to make meaning from sound with greater accuracy and reliability.