My kids have just loved using this app. We start each lesson with Mussila Music School to help tune in and settle into learning  The children have very much enjoyed using Mussila Music School, working through the Islands, gaining enough diamonds to buy extra instruments to use in Mussila DJ and Mussila Jam. The app is challenging but not so much that students lose interest, become discouraged and no longer want to use it. The incentives such as gaining and earning diamonds is a great motivator.

Mussila is a good introduction to basic music theory, recognising different instrument sounds and learning to recognise rhythms and melodies. In the 6 weeks we have been using Mussila I have noticed the growth in their understanding of all these three of these areas.

Students have in particular enjoyed using Mussila DJ; this is pretty much every student’s favourite aspect of the app. They have enjoyed playing with the turntable, creating their own sounds and experimenting with sound, adding the effects and sourcing instruments/sounds that they might need to make the performance more interesting.

We can't get enough of this video of year 9 students at iCAN International School, Cambodia shared by their teacher and Musical Futures International Champion Joaan Foo.

Joaan has been a regular attendee at our Asia Intro, Recharge and Further Into MF workshops and has been able to share some inspiring stories about how embedding Musical Futures into her work at iCAN has had a real impact with students of all ages.

As always it is the individual musical stories of each student that sit behind this performance that show the importance of music  in school and the difference that programs like Musical Futures International can make to student engagement and musical and personal development as they progress through school.

We wish this group well with their performance to the whole school in the next few weeks!

Huge thanks to Joaan and her students for sharing this with us.

Our first Musical Futures International workshops took place this week at The Bavarian International School, Munich and marked the launch of our new Musical Futures International European Program which we are excited to be implementing across 2019.
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Working with teachers from 3 different schools in the city, our Head of training and Development and new European Program Lead Anna Gower put together 2 days of workshops that explored the pedagogical basis of Musical Futures, some of our fantastic audio/visual resources and how these can be cherry-picked to teach to outcomes devised by both teachers and students themselves.

On day 2, the group unpicked how parameters applied to composing and improvising can affect the way teachers approach creative music tasks both as learners and as teachers and the implications of such approaches for their students. The final task, to write an original song produced a fantastic outcome and you can watch back the live video in our Musical Futures International teacher group on Facebook to see how we end our workshops-with one big musical experience!

Teachers all took away plenty of resources to get them started with using Musical Futures in the classroom straight away (all delegates at our workshops receive free and unlimited downloads of all our current and futures resources). We hope our new friends in Munich enjoy trying them out with their classes this week! **

If you are interested in finding out more about Musical Futures International in Europe, please contact Anna Gower via anna@musicalfuturesinternational.org.

**please note that this does not apply to workshops run by Musical Futures UK