At the culmination of Queensland Mental Health Week, schools and community groups across the state sang a song to highlight the benefits of sharing your voice with others.
Queens Beach State School in Bowen took part in the Together Sing Music For Wellbeing awareness raising event, harmonising 370 of its students voices in a song composed for the occasion last Friday, October 21.
Performing the song ‘Where We Begin’ - which was commissioned by Queensland Mental Health Commission and Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia’s Queensland Branch - the local school enjoyed “the benefits of singing together for mental health week.”
Queens Beach State School music teacher Sylvia Kaklamanis spearheaded the Bowen iteration of the state-wide music education program.
The song was composed by Australian Composer Slade Gibson and arranged by another Australian Composer, Will Brown.
A spokesperson for the school said it was a very different activity for many of the students with some of them a little apprehensive to sing out loud in front of their peers.
“The kids loved it. All the preps through to grade six enjoy the performance and they just couldn’t help but get involved,” she said.
“When the younger students see the older ones getting involved, they free up and start singing too. And all of the teachers thoroughly enjoyed themselves!”
The event was organised by Education Queensland and was encouraged because of music’s strong link with emotion: music can make us happy, sad, relaxed, or calm. Music can make us feel better.
370 kids raised their collective voices in song for Mental Health Week at Queens Beach State School in Bowen
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