Raelee Hill (Hong Kong), my Musical Futures Story

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For over 30 years music has always been part of my teaching. Although I was never classically trained I learned a few basics on guitar as a child and at teachers’ college had a go at a few other instruments but concentrated mostly on classroom based music, percussion, recorder, etc.

I had a few opportunities to be a music specialist but even when I wasn’t I made sure I was either working on productions or running the choir or small percussion groups at lunchtime or after school. Musical Futures came into my life about 10 years ago when I was AP at Trafalgar Primary School in Gippsland. I had originally been appointed the arts coordinator there, so had for many years taught both regular classroom and classroom music.

Although at this stage I was no longer in charge of music I was certainly still part of the team. We had always had a pretty good music program with enthusiastic and talented kids so when we convinced Ken to let us run it with our year 5/6 students we never looked back and became the first of many Primary schools that now choose MF as their way of learning.

Skip forward a few years and life turns full circle and I am just finishing my second year at an international school in Hong Kong where I have had the opportunity to step back into teaching and introduce Musical Futures to a whole new generation of children and a totally different collegiate group.

Raelee recently hosted our Musical Futures Hong Kong workshops at the Yew Chung International School in March 2017.

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