Music may have many benefits for children
While children come into the world ready to decode sounds and words, music education helps enhance those natural abilities.
Whether your child is the next Michael Jackson or more likely to sing his solos in the shower, he is bound to benefit from some form of music education.
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Paul Geoffery, owner of The Keynote Music School in Port Shepstone totally agrees. His school took time out to celebrate at its seventh annual concert at New Covenant Church in Protea Park last Saturday. Mr Geoffery has been improving the musical talents of the South Coast community, one person at a time, for the past several years.
Mr Geoffery told the Herald that research has found that learning music facilitates learning other subjects and enhances skills that children inevitably use in other areas. “I started this school with the aim of extending music education to children and adults alike. I realised people in the area needed music,” he explained.
He pointed out that while children come into the world ready to decode sounds and words, music education helps enhance those natural abilities.
“Growing up in a musically rich environment is often advantageous for children’s language development.”
Keynote Music School was built on the novel idea of teaching them popular music – tunes they could relate to and would want to learn. “We scrap what they hate about music classes and incorporate more of what they want,” explained Mr Geoffery.
He added that children get to jam with other children right away and play current hits. “The learning is the same, but the enjoyment factor is much higher.”
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