Sharing how music can support development of "The Recovery Curriculum"
Earlier this term, Southampton and Isle of Wight Music Hubs shared their response to Barry Carpenter’s Recovery Curriculum with schools teachers and leaders across the region.
Artswork — the South’s Arts Council Bridge Organisation — hosted a webinar called “Supporting Pupil Wellbeing and Reconnecting with Learning through Creativity” where the hubs presented the way the recovery curriculum had informed planning and projects for the year ahead. The event featured a keynote from Professor Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching, and was well attended by schools, as well as arts professionals from across the South .
About the Recovery Curriculum:
The Recovery Curriculum outlines five losses and five levers of recovery for children and young people.
Loses:
Routine
Structure
Opportunity
Friendship
Freedom
Levers of Recovery:
Relationships
Community
Transparent curriculum
Metacognition
Space
Sharing the hubs’ approach
In the virtual session, Nia Collins, Relationship Manager for Southampton and Isle of Wight Music Hubs, shared how projects and plans for the year ahead are designed to address the five losses through specific music-making activities which build upon the five levers for recovery.
In the session, the hub also shared a growing body of evidence showing that music can have a positive impact on both social, emotional and wider academic outcomes for children and young people in the longer term.
Nia Collins, Music Hub Relationship Manager said:
“Huge thanks to Artswork for inviting the music hubs to be part of such a wonderful event and for bringing us together with the other brilliant speakers and a great number of teachers too. I came away inspired and hopeful for our children and young people, seeing the passion and compassion that our educators and arts colleagues have at this extraordinary time has motivated me even more to continue on this path of putting health and wellbeing at the forefront of what we do in the Music Hub.
The role of music in supporting the health and wellbeing of pupils, and in particular how this can be so closely tied in with schools’ recovery curriculum planning, is an incredible opportunity to broaden the curriculum. We should absolutely take in this extraordinary year.”