McDowall State School is committed to delivering a quality and robust Instrumental Music Programme.
This extra-curricular programme is offered to children in Years 3 to 6 and provides students with professionally planned opportunities to:
Formally engage with music and develop an enduring love of and lifelong involvement with music.
Learn to play a musical instrument.
Engage in music making through a range of learning experiences and a variety of styles and contexts both individually and with others.
Become musically literate and capable of communicating through music, therefore becoming articulate participants in the musical life of the community.
Develop their critical faculty and intellect through activities that develop higher-order thinking skills, executive functioning skills and creative problem-solving abilities.
Develop social and personal skills that promote group cooperation, responsibility, confidence and self-esteem.