Colour Your Life-Musical Migration

“promoting creativity and allowing it to flower in a spirit of freedom and intercultural dialogue is one of the best ways of maintaining cultural integrity.” (UNESCO on Arts & Creativity)

The Colour Your Life enrichment programmes are designed to promote cultural diversity and inclusion within primary schools and aims to raise young people's standards of achievement in language, literacy and communication skills and promote independent learning through the use of the creative arts.

Our programmes use the arts to stimulate awareness, appreciation and understanding of different African cultures through performance and project activities.

Skills Gained

• Self discipline
• Self expression
• Creative expression through song and the arts
• Team building
• Listening skills
• Concentration
• Learn Africa drumming, dance and folk songs

Our workshops are an enjoyable exploration of dances, musical rhythms and folksongs from Africa and follow the musical migration of these instruments to their modern form. Combined with creative arts and drama the enrichment programme creates a playground of self-expression for participants to enjoy. They are inclusive and participatory, tailored to meet the needs of participants and aims to provide an all-round learning experience.

Our programmes are delivered over the academic school year and are split into three modules.

We value the input and inclusion of head teachers, class teachers, pupils and parents in the structure of our programmes so that it addresses the specific needs of their school.

We are currently developing teachers resource packs in collaboration with the QCA where teachers can discover African-inspired lesson plans to use as part of their schemes of work across the curricula.

Examples of some units of work covered:

• Music Unit 4: Feel the pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm
• Art and Design Unit 3b: Investigating patterns
• Citizenship Unit 05: Living in a diverse world
• Design and Technology Unit 5A Musical Instruments
• Geography Unit 10: location of country- A village in Africa
• ICT Unit 3E: e-mail a school in Africa (as part of the twinning project)
• PE Unit 2: African Dance Activities
• RE Unit RA: What are Harvest Festival- looking at a harvest

We also offer schools team building activities as part of the schools INSET day as well as training in using our resource pack. We will also offer our service to other activities within the schools.

To arrange a taster session and to discuss the needs of your school please contact us at