The academic year 2024-25 has been our biggest year yet for LEARN at Drake Music Scotland. We’ve worked with a record number of young people, and we want to celebrate!
Between July 2024 and June 2025 we worked with 1,400 young people in 60 schools across 15 local authorities. This is 1,038 sessions providing music education to young people which equates to around 2,971 hours of delivery. We had brand new projects starting in Scottish Borders and Renfrewshire too!
“One of the biggest wow moments was seeing a pupil, whose IEP target was simply to stay at an activity for 5 minutes, become instantly completely absorbed in the music sessions and staying at the session for up to 35 minutes at a time. That was a real turning point in her overall development and transferrable skills. That kind of progress is huge!”
We also delivered training to 237 teachers internationally through our Figurenotes training programme Developing Your Practice, one off sessions to Sistema Scotland, Carousel and Early Years Music Scotland. Additionally, we also delivered International presentations at the EAS Conference in Dublin, ISME Special Music Education and Music Therapy Conference in Helsinki, and online to the Ambassadors at the Benedetti Foundation.
Thank you to all wonderful team of Associate Musicians across Scotland for delivering such meaningful and fun sessions to young people up and down the country! We can’t wait to see what 2025-26 brings!
