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Rotherham United Community Trust

Wonderful to be back with Rotherham United Community Trust.

Always good to work with familiar faces who we have been with over the past couple of years, but a few new one’s too.

We also branched out to a new venue at Parkgate Astro. We gave an opportunity to our volunteer Denis to take the lead and demonstrate the skills he has been building up over the last 6 months of training.

Once again thanks to Jonny for inviting us to support and all the young people from the Trust who deserve credit for their role in delivering the much needed HAF programme in Rotherham.

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Adwick Primary School

“When we started I was quiet and didn’t want to talk much, but now if our teacher asks a question I will answer, I used to be scared to do things but now I find it easier to get involved, I enjoyed the beat pad most.” L.M aged 9

We asked if they felt anything had changed since we started 6 weeks ago.

It was our final session of 6 on Tuesday and I asked the children if they felt anything was different from when we met 6 weeks ago. 6 out of the 9 pupils recognised that they were more confident socially.

For us building strong social bonds and supercharging confidence are among our primary aims, but to hear them mirror back their understanding of it really made my day.

Over the past 6 weeks we have covered communication and discipline. Learning and development. Music from around the world. Songwriting and Music Production, DJing and the connections between Maths, Science, Art and Music.

We have Jammed, laughed, learnt about each other and explored the building blocks of Music.

Thanks to Miss Jenkins for taking part as well as supporting us through the sessions and thanks to all the School staff who made us feel welcome.

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SHAKERS ASKERN

A great venue with a world of potential. Shakers feels like a ranch in the wild west.

On week one the young people asked if we could do DJ Skills, although 90 Minute Music is focused on how music can support in other areas such as health and development, DJing and Music production are at the heart of the skills that get us there.

There were a small group who were reluctant to engage in the first session as we were playing hand drums they didn’t feel it was for them. This week it was nice to see them getting hands on with the DJ decks. They picked it up pretty quickly and it wasn’t long before they were mixing their favourite tunes. Plenty of dancing and good vibes all round.

We will be at Bullcroft Memorial Hall from 4.45pm on 6th of June and Highfields Boxing Club from 4.45pm on 7th of June.