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“Our students are very excited to find their name on the list of participants…everyone loves the song. It’s so easy to learn.”
Lorraine Costa, St Timothy’s Catholic Community School, Vermont, VIC
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“Thanks for the opportunity to unite the school and community and nation together in Music.”
Penny Vandervlag, Kings Baptists Grammar School, Wynn Vale, SA
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"Music can help deliver many of the critical skills young poeple need at school - understanding, listening, teamwork, the personal benefit of working towards a goal, and numeracy as well."
Trevor Fletcher, Deputy Director-General, NSW Department of Education and Training.
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"When you see that many people singing and enjoying the act of music, enjoying making it and performing it and enjoying being together, that tells you music is a very powerful thing."
Meriana Gyory, student songwriter, Sydney, NSW.
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"No other event brings the whole community together in music quite the way this one does."
Jason Boron, East Victoria Park Primary School, WA
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"What's so clever about this is that it is simultaneously huge and intimate. There aren't many things that involve half a million people yet include a proud group of ten students and one teacher in an outback school."
Program Ambassador, John Foreman
Music Count Us In 2010 - Did you play your part?
Across Australia at 11.30am AEST today, 500,000 students, teachers and families from 1600 school communities did! They joined together to perform this year's theme song, 'Come Play Your Part' in the massive nationwide celebration of the value of school music education. Voices, drums, ukuleles, recorders, violins, rock bands and orchestras rang out over the entire country, from Campbelltown to Kalgoorlie, Katherine to Cammeray.
Congratulations everyone! You helped make Music: Count Us In 2010 really big and really loud!
Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra hosted countdown events which were webstreamed live.
Click on the buttons below to watch Music Count Us In 2010.
Find out why Music. Count Us In is important and how it helps get more music making in our schools
Read about how different schools are preparing for Australia's biggest school music gig.
This project is supported by funding from The Australian Government
Music. Count Us In is managed by Music. Play for Life, the Music Council of Australia's grassroots campaign to get more Australians making music: in schools, communities, everywhere. The campaign is run in partnership with the Australian Music Association and the Australian Society for Music Education.
