How to celebrate world music day for schools
How to celebrate world music day for schools
World music day occurs on the 21st of June and aims to involve everyone in the magic of music and create a passion for all genres of music. As an SBM it is important to give students the opportunity to learn about music from all over the world and develop an interest in music. Encourage students to play instruments and take part in musical activities.
To help your school get involved, create various school activities for staff and students to do. We have created some ways on how to celebrate world music day for schools to use as inspiration.
Have a dress up day
Arrange a school dress up day for world music day. Let students and even staff come into school dressed as their favourite artist or just a general popstar, rockstar etc. To encourage students to partake, rally up as many staff as possible to dress up too and even consider joining in yourself. Doing this makes students feel less alone and they want to be involved like everyone else.
Another way to encourage children to partake in dress up day is holding a school best dressed competition. To ensure this is fair, get each class to vote for their favourite costume within their year group and have winners from each year. Have staff assist you with this and take the votes of their class. Give out prizes that children will be excited to win such as chocolates and have a few runners up too.
Hold a musical craft day
Encourage students to create musical crafts but holding a musical craft day for the school. They can create their own instruments or musical decorations that could be used for a school display. Stock up on plenty of craft supplies for your school to use especially coloured card to create instruments or decorations. You could even get your school to use our make your own tambourine kit to start them off with creating instruments.
Doing musical crafts provides students with a chance to explore and learn about instruments and music whilst expressing their creativity.
Create a school playlist
A simple way to celebrate world music day is through creating a school playlist. Work with staff to create this and ask them to gather their students' favourite songs. Once you have each class’s favourite songs, compile them into a playlist. Share with staff and students to listen to it whenever they like. Encourage your staff to play it during their lessons to help boost students' motivation and moods.
Invite a local musician to perform
Bring some fun and excitement to your school by inviting a local musician to perform. This is the perfect way to celebrate music and showcase local talent to inspire students. Try inviting a musician that also plays an instrument for children to understand different instruments as well and how they work. Children can see how instruments and singing are used within music whilst learning about genres too.
Arrange musical trips with staff
Work with staff to arrange a school trip to a music venue, concert hall or musical museum. Work out finances needed and how to split classes up so every student can take part in the trip. Doing this can be a fantastic way for students to learn about the history of music. It can also be an opportunity to witness live music in a public space and a different environment that brings different music to life.
Hold a concert
Organise a school wide concert as a perfect way to celebrate world music day. Excite students with a chance to perform in front of their peers and parents. Encourage children to work together and perform whatever they choose as long as music is involved in some way. They could sing, create a band, play instruments or even dance to music.
Consider exciting students more by turning the concert into a competition. There could be a vote for the best performance and various prizes for different elements, such as most entertaining.
Create a musical display
Get your school in the mood to celebrate music with an interesting musical display showing different instruments and genres of music from around the world. Students can learn more about different cultures and their music, as well as different instruments that are used around the world. Rally staff together to help you with your display and entice students to help create craft pieces to go on the board too.
Use recycled craft rolls as a base to create instruments that can go around the border. Students can have fun in class helping to create these using the rolls so then everyone has participated in making the board.
Encourage playing instruments together
Playing instruments allows students to enjoy music whilst learning a new skill. Playing together is always more useful to fully understand how instruments work and come together to create music. Encourage your staff to offer students various instruments such as ukuleles, percussion sets and keyboards. Let them know that their students can experiment with the music and freely create with each other to further understand how different instruments work together.
Ensure to set funding aside for extra-curricular musical activities such as the school orchestra. Provide instruments to children for the school orchestra too such as flutes, cellos and trumpets so that every student has the opportunity to learn an instrument.
Use these ways on how to celebrate world music day for schools to get students and staff involved and create a school passion for music. Ensure to have plenty of materials and instruments for your school to use during their celebrations. Doing this ensures no one will be left out and every student has the supplies needed to join in the activities.
