Ambitie

The ambition that Art4U has is that every primary school child, regardless of socio-economic background, can come into contact with music in every year of primary school so that he can discover what it can mean for him. Music is part of every child's basic development.

Every child has the right to music education, has the right to discover what making, hearing, feeling and experiencing music means to him. The socio-economic environment from which the child comes should not be an obstacle in this regard. Structural provision of music lessons at primary school is of the utmost importance in order to be able to continue pursuing this ambition. In this way we reach all primary school children throughout their primary school career and, in the very important years before that, they can develop themselves musically.

Keeping music education structurally in the curriculum at all schools is necessary to achieve our goal.

Financial assurance for a longer period remains a point of concern and attention. A minimum period of eight years is required to successfully realize a continuous music learning track.After all, a pupil has been in primary school for eight years and to be able to measure the effect of a continuous learning path on a pupil, he or she must have completed all eight modules.

The subsidy scheme “Impulse Music Education” has made it possible for us to pay for the full teaching program with extensive coaching for the teachers in the course years 2017-2021 according to our training route. Now that the “Impulse Music Education” scheme is coming to an end in our area of ​​work, there is a substantial budget deficit to continue the full breadth of the curriculum with this intensity, even though there is a great need for this from education.

Art4u has now taken major steps in drawing up a Music Agreement in collaboration with the “More Music in the Classroom” foundation, of which H.M. Queen Maxima is the patroness. This Music Agreement will be signed by a large number of interested parties in the first half of 2021 and has an enormous positive image and will undoubtedly lead to broad social and political support. This support makes us less financially vulnerable because the stakeholders endorse the importance of music in the classroom and will therefore maintain their financial contribution as much as possible.

Perhaps the positive image of a Music Agreement also offers opportunities to bind the business community in and around our area of ​​work to us in some way and to entice us to make a structural (tangible or intangible) contribution. Their gain from more music in the classroom is clear: the children who now receive good and creative music education at primary school are the future employees of these companies.