Working with primary schools - Nordoff Robbins

What Nordoff Robbins can offer
Nordoff Robbins offers a multi-faceted package of music therapy provision,
including:
• Individual music therapy sessions
• Groups from 2 to 16 children
• Opportunities for family sessions with a parent or sibling if appropriate
• A close partnership with the school SENCO delivering comprehensive
adaptable evaluation and support for family and teaching staff including:
regular written reports and presentations
• Training for school staff, including INSET days
Realising the
Power of Music
Just as each child is unique, so is each partnership. Nordoff Robbins will work
with you to ensure that the package is created with the specific needs and
objectives of your school and your children in mind. Funding options can be
discussed.
Contact us
For more details about how Nordoff Robbins may be able to work with
your school please contact: Lib Sackville West (Schools Co-ordinator)
Tel: 020 7267 4496 Email: lib.sackville.west@nordoff-robbins.org.uk
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The Nordoff Robbins London Centre is in Kentish Town,
NW5. It has full access for disabled users. For a map and
information about public transport and parking please visit:
www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/londoncentremap
Nordoff Robbins is a music charity delivering
music therapy and other music services
to vulnerable people across the UK.
Registered Charity Number 280960.
Music Therapy with
Primary Schools
Mainstream
and SEND

The Transformative Power of Music Who can music help
Everyone reacts to music but in a different way. Music has a universal power
to reach us, touch us, and make us feel and experience the world in a new
way.
Music therapy, a specialist use of music, helps people in many different ways.
For some the benefits are physical, for others they can be emotional, social or
cognitive.
Music breaks down barriers of illness or disability and gives children a voice. It
builds bridges, offering even the most isolated children the opportunity for
social contact.
For over 50 years, countless people
have been helped by the
transformative power of Nordoff
Robbins in work that is now
practised worldwide.
Nordoff Robbins now provides over
50,000 music therapy sessions in
the UK each year. It delivers lifetransforming
opportunities to
vunerable children nationwide,
fostering their creative potential in
whatever way they can.
Nordoff Robbins and Schools
Thousands of children from both mainstream and SEND schools across
London have benefited from music therapy based at Nordoff Robbins’ London
Centre in Kentish Town. The centre is the largest of its kind in the world with
state-of-the-art facilities and a dedicated team of leading music therapists,
researchers and educators.
“
Music therapy is a registered profession regulated by the Health Professions
Council, and Nordoff Robbins music therapists are highly skilled practioners
who work in a specialised way with children with a huge range of needs
including:
• Speech, language, social and
communication difficulties including
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• Learning disabilities
• Physical and/or sensory
impairment
• Low confidence and self-esteem
• Emotional and behavioural
difficulties
• History of trauma
• Bereavement
• Attachment difficulties
• Neurological disorders
Experiencing music
therapy sessions with
the children has
deepened my
understanding of how
music can reach
challenging pupils in a
range of ways. ”
(partner school, staff “...excellent use of
music to improve
member)
their communication
skills, explore
feelings and improve
their self-esteem
through music.
”
(partner school, staff
member)
Whatever the child’s need, Nordoff
Robbins music therapy focuses on
the potential of the individual. The
potential to communicate, to
express themselves creatively, to
form relationships and to enrich
their health and wellbeing through
the power of music.