Member for Nanango, Deb Frecklington, has welcomed the announcement today that local students studying music at our State High Schools will have access to new music instruments and more music teachers.
Mrs Frecklington said the Queensland Government has announced more than $2.46 million in funding for secondary school music education and that this would benefit the instrumental program five Nanango Electorate High Schools including Crows Nest, Kilcoy, Kingaroy, Nanango and Toogoolawah.
“This is fantastic news our High Schools, which are amongst 226 state schools around the state sharing in an additional $1 million to buy more instruments and equipment,” Mrs Frecklington said.
Instrument funding for our local High Schools will be:
“The additional funding will also help employ an additional 16.7 fulltime equivalent instrumental music teachers across Queensland. Plus it will cater for the move of Year 7 into secondary school in 2015 and ensure students have access to the instruments and expertise they need,” she said.
“Music is such an important part of the curriculum and a focus on this area of study means we’ll continue to see our regional students excelling in the instrumental program.”
Deb said from 2015, Year 4 students will be able to study woodwind, brass and percussion instruments at school for the first time, a year earlier than the current Year 5 starting point.
“This additional funding will help students to develop their music skills across a range of instruments earlier and help schools to maintain quality bands,” she said.
