MUSIC TREEHOUSE
for SEN/D students aged 2-25
developing music-making expression, communication and skills
“Music Treehouse has definitely developed my daughter’s love of playing and she can now play a tune and never stops singing!”
Music Treehouse has offered a much-needed SEN/D extension of our Saturday Programme since 2015, enabling us to broaden our inclusion to students who are often isolated and overlooked outside of the school environment.
What does Music Treehouse offer?
Music Treehouse offers children aged 2-25 with a wide range of mild to severe, profound and complex needs the opportunity to develop their creative music-making, expression, communication, and social skills through working with a team of experienced musicians, renowned workshop leaders and uniquely, the option of individual sessions with a music therapist.
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Music Treehouse focuses on interaction and basing the learning around the students, rather than the students learning a set curriculum. Music’s multi-dimensional tools are proven to be hugely motivational enabling SEN/D students to develop skills faster than any other activity by engaging several modes of learning including multi-sensory, tactile, visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.
Working together to create music is integral to the Saturday Programme, which is hugely sociable for both parents and students, and we aim to provide a sense of community for everyone that attends.
The Music Treehouse Programme
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Our Music Box programme has been specifically tailored for young children with SEND, focusing on sensory play and song.
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Our primary stream of Music Treehouse focuses on storytelling, sensory play and song, using music as a tool in order to develop creative expressive and key life-skills.
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Within our secondary stream of Music Treehouse are two groups; Beech and Cedar. Both sessions allow our young musicians to explore instrumental improvisation and composition, with many of our young musicians progressing from playing percussion to playing violin, guitar, clarinet, flute and keyboard, as well as writing and performing their own songs. Cedar allows those with more profound needs, or those who are new to Music Treehouse, to develop skills in a smaller group setting.
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Working alongside the sessions a HCPC registered Music Therapist from one of our core partners Music Therapy Tree, offers 1:1 support or small group Music Therapy sessions for those who are unable or not yet ready to access group sessions or for those who require tailored support.
“My son is always excited about coming to play an instrument and really enjoys the tutors. At Music Treehouse his anxieties simply melt away.”
Thanks to our funders, Music Treehouse is offered free of charge to all participants.
We are very grateful for the support of:
Richer Sounds
The Community Fund
City Bridge Foundation
Arts Council England
“K has enjoyed the group sessions very much and always looks forward to the next session. It’s so nice to see her being so happy and taking part. The music therapy intervention offers a powerful way to improve language skills and social pragmatic skills through conversational lyrics, imitating body movements, language cooperative play and group activities and participation. Her ability to communicate as well as her speech has improved so much since joining. ”
“I had fun and I enjoyed Music Treehouse because I did very well.”
Timetable
SATURDAYS
The Music Box SEN/D – 11:00 – 11:30
Saplings A – 11:35 – 12:15
Saplings B – 12:20 – 13:00
Beech – 13:00 – 14:30
Cedar – 15:00 – 15:45
Music Therapy sessions take place between 12.00 – 16.00.
Please arrive 15 minutes before your session begins.
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