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23.01.2022 This year we’ve created a new YouTube playlist dedicated to Professional Development videos for MCUI 2020. Our first uploaded videos feature four teachers in NSW. Check out the videos here:

22.01.2022 Back by popular demand for MCUI 2020 - check out this year’s Animated Percussion video (check out our YouTube playlist for more videos: https://tinyurl.com/ybyobvf3).

21.01.2022 Founded on the vision of the late conductor and music education advocate Richard Gill, the Richard Gill School in Muswellbrook, NSW, is due to open its doors in 2021.

19.01.2022 We are thrilled by all the beautiful post-Celebration Day footage and feedback we are receiving from schools across Australia, showing how they participated and performed the 2020 Program Song on Celebration Day last week. Thank you School of the Good Shepherd (VIC), your Auslan performance is just gorgeous, and a real testament to the resilience of teachers and students who have continued to find ways to keep performing and making music in their classrooms, despite singing restrictions due to Covid-19! https://youtu.be/9TrdTO9KZYk

19.01.2022 We were delighted to be joined by Australian singer Emma Pask to film our MCUI 2020 teaching videos. Here she is teaching the Chorus and Refrain (check out our YouTube playlist for more: https://tinyurl.com/ybyobvf3).

18.01.2022 We are incredibly proud of our MCUI 2020 Celebration Day event in Yamatji Country (WA) and extremely grateful to the children, staff, local Elders and partners who helped us create it!

16.01.2022 We are swingin' along to this jazz version of our 2020 Program Song 'You Won't Bring Us Down'. Fabulous work Mount Waverley Secondary College!

14.01.2022 NAIDOC WEEK We are thrilled to have had so many requests this week (NAIDOC WEEK) from schools wanting to replay footage of our Indigenous Language (Wajarri) performance of the 2020 Program Song from last week's fabulous Celebration Day Broadcast. Our deepest gratitude goes to the schools who performed it so beautifully from the stunning riverbank of Ellendale Pool, Yamatji Country, WA. These were Rangeway, Beachlands, Waggrakine and Allendale Primary Schools. You can catch th...e Wajarri language performance of the song as well as a series of videos created around it via our Music Count Us In 2020-Celebration Day Youtube Playlist. Clips include: Wajarri Language performance of the Program Song - Ellendale Pool, Yamatji Country, WA https://youtu.be/s7l9EwLoOJE Highlights from Celebration Day 2020 @ Ellendale Pool, Yamatji Country, WA https://youtu.be/WlHJbeYaE6g Elder Graham Taylor with students at Ellendale Pool, Yamatji Country, WA https://youtu.be/vQFPf2TxnUE Elder Gloria Fogarty at Ellendale Pool, Yamatji Country, WA https://youtu.be/XJQCVLTN4Eg Welcome to Country at Ellendale Pool,Yamatji Country, WA https://youtu.be/0LiGU37mwEo For the full Playlist go to https://www.youtube.com/playlist

14.01.2022 Despite the current devastating ban on group singing in NSW schools, our 2020 MCUI Celebration Day will go ahead as planned on November 5th, with the unique addition of a full and featured performance of the Program Song in Auslan. As always the event will be live-streamed around the country with all registered schools from anywhere in Australia able to take part. We encourage all schools to learn the Auslan translation so that they can perform alongside the Signing Choir fro...m RIDBC Thomas Pattison School who will lead the way! Register your school now and access our 'Learn the Auslan Translation' videos which feature step by step demonstrations/instructions for teachers. Registration and access to all resources is totally free. There is still plenty of time to register for Music: Count Us In 2020. Please help us advocate for the value and benefits of music education in schools by encouraging any teachers or schools you know to register now to access our complete music education program (including the Program Song and Teaching Resources). The program is FREE and available online!

13.01.2022 Expressions of Interest Open 2021 Australian Youth Orchestra, which provides specialised training opportunities to inspire excellence in Australia’s best young classical musicians, composers and arts administrators aged 1230 years; from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, to those on a verge of a professional career.

12.01.2022 Reminder: Registration for Music Count Us In 2021 is closing soon! Join us in 2021 Music Count Us In | Music Australia Teachers recieve a full term (10 wks) classroom ready, curriculum aligned Lesson Plans, an extensive suite of accompanying online teaching resources, a suite of 'how to teach it' videos, arrangements for every possible school ensemble as well as classroom instruments such as bucket drums, boom whackers, stick percussion, simple percussion instruments, graph...ic notation scores and many many more! Accredited PD is also included and available face to face or online! Join us in 2021 Music Count Us In | Music Australia https://musicaustralia.org.au//join-us-in-2021-music-coun/

11.01.2022 Congratulations to the clever kids at Wagaman Primary School NT who celebrated International Day of Sign Languages with this gorgeous performance of 'My Island Home' in Auslan!

09.01.2022 Wow, 290 teachers registered for tonight's utterly fabulous Professional Development session with ‘the 2 Michaels’ from South Australia. We are still on a high! If you missed it, register for MCUI to access a video recording and all the accompanying resources totally FREE via the website https://musicaustralia.org.au/program/countusin/register/

08.01.2022 We just love this video of Blackburn Primary School students and teachers engaging with our Music Count Us In 2020 program! Thankyou Mrs Shacklock, Mrs Sutcliffe and all the kids at Blackburn!

07.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY Wed 30th September 2020, 4.30pm (Adelaide time) Music Count Us In and the Orff Schulwerk Association of South Australia (OSASA) are pleased to invite teachers from anywhere in Australia to join their FREE online Professional Development event, delivered by much loved South Australian presenters Michael McConnochie and Michael Aquilina (aka ‘the two Michaels’!)... The PD session will feature a range of practical demonstrations, activities and teaching resources. These include Boomwhacker scores, graphic notation, and 2 fabulous stick percussion scores which can be used to teach a fun and engaging flashmob/whole school performance piece! All activities and resources have been designed with Covid-19 restrictions in mind (including limited group singing in some states), and are ready for immediate use in the classroom. The resources will also be made available to registered teachers online via our MCUI Website and MCUI 2020 Professional Development Youtube chanel. NB You must be registered to attend this online event, and ‘Teacher Accredited’ PD Certificates are available for all participants. Event Details Date: Wednesday 30 September Time: 4:30pm (Adelaide time) Location: Zoom (The Zoom link for this workshop will be sent to you via email) Cost: FREE Host: Orff Schulwerk Association of South Australia (OSASA) will be hosting this event for Music; Count Us In Learn more & Register Now https://www.osasa.net//community-event-music-count-us-in-2 Music: Count Us In is a nation-wide FREE music program run by Music Australia. The program aims to promote music education throughout Australia and support teachers in delivering a quality music education to students. There is still time to register for Music: Count Us In 2020. Please help us advocate for the value and benefits of music education in schools by encouraging any teachers or schools you know to register now . https://musicaustralia.org.au/program/countusin/

06.01.2022 We are thrilled to announce that our MCUI online Professional Development workshops for VICTORIAN teachers have launched today. This evening's session is the first of 9, so you can easily slip in to another one if you missed it! NB There is still plenty of time to register for Music: Count Us In 2020. Please help us advocate for the value and benefits of music education in schools by encouraging any teachers or schools you know to register now to access our complete music education program (including the Program Song and Teaching Resources). The program is FREE and all available online! https://musicaustralia.org.au/program/countusin/register/

06.01.2022 Use our FREE step by step instruction videos to teach some Auslan! This week (19 25 September) we celebrate National Week of Deaf People (NWDP). It is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and honour Deaf culture and language, as well as raise vital awareness about social inclusion and communication barriers. We encourage teachers to join the week-long celebration and use our free resources to teach your students the Auslan translation of the 'Music Count Us In' 2020 Program... Song You Won’t Bring Us Down! Register FREE to access our Auslan Playlist. This includes the Auslan translation of the song; 4 x step by step ‘How to teach it videos; and a wonderful ‘Introduction to Auslan’ which is full of interesting facts to share with your students! REGISTER HERE: https://musicaustralia.org.au/program/countusin/register/ Happy Celebrating! NB Click the links below to read recent articles on our plans for MCUI Celebration Day (Nov 5th) and how your students can join with schools all over Australia (via our live stream) to take part in the Auslan performance of the song: https://musicaustralia.org.au//music-count-us-in-counts-d/ https://musiceducation.global/australian-school-music-prog/

05.01.2022 https://musicaustralia.org.au//mcui-celebration-day-2020a/

01.01.2022 Braille Lyrics of the MCUI 2020 song 'You Won't Bring Us Down' are now available to any schools and students who would benefit. To obtain copies please email [email protected] with details of how many copies you would like, and the best address to post them to.

01.01.2022 Music Count Us In 2021 National Songwriting Competition for school students NOW OPEN! https://musicaustralia.org.au//music-count-us-in-2021-nat/