Education

Innerbeat can work with students across all ages from year 3 to sixth formers and under-graduates. Equally it can be used with teachers and lecturers (see business section).

It is increasingly important that schools have in place strong measures to promote student well-being and the development of inter-personal skills, to encourage integration and combat bullying and exclusion. Innerbeat can be used across all age ranges, either within the context of a larger arts-based event or for one-off, class specific, sessions.

The use of percussion is highly inclusive, and easily adaptable to meet the age groups. The variety of ways of making percussion leads to highly stimulating and creative opportunities to make percussion part of every day learning and fun.

Rhythm rules
Using clapping, stamping, different parts of the body, to make sounds. Copying rhythms, creating ones and passing them on, bringing different rhythms together. Emphasise watching, listening, leading and following.

All together
Schools work hard to create their own ‘identity’. Sharing one beat, students begin to see, hear and feel the strength behind the collective; this can be related back to the underlying principles that the school believes in around sharing, helping, caring.

Adding variety
By playing different rhythms and then bringing them together, students experience first hand that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and are encouraged to relate this back to their own contribution and the many different activities that go on in their school.

Create
Playing percussion together is creative in itself but as confidence grows, the students are encouraged to explore spontaneity and creativity within the context of the use of noise levels, sounds of instruments or other percussive elements.