Literacy Through Music Project (2011-2013)
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	The New London Orchestra's flagship education project for 2011-2013 is 'Literacy Through Music', a project taking place in primary schools in the London Borough of Newham. This project is funded over its three-year duration by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.  An evaluation of the 2011 project by London University's Institute of Education will be available soon.
During the academic year 2011-2012, the project's scope broadens from 3 to 35 schools. During the year, practitioners will work with primary school teachers during Inset Workshops to foster the use of music in the teaching of literacy in the classroom. Workshops are based on experience developed during the spring and summer terms of 2011, when practitioners worked with three primary schools in Newham. In summary, the project aims to: * increase pupils' skills in literacy * give teachers new tools and confidence in using musical activities in their teaching * enhance pupils' experience of music * enhance the children's development in terms of self-expression and self confidence The New London Orchestra is continuing to work closely with the Institute of Education, which has been commissioned to oversee the monitoring of the project during 2011-12. The Institute of Education's report on a 2006 'Music & Literacy' project is available here.          The project's funder adds:   "Through the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, J.P. Morgan is committed to working in partnership with organisations in response to the deepening social need in the communities we serve. Globally, the Foundation provides over $100M in grants, on an annual basis, to over 7,500 grant partners in the focus areas of Community Development, Education and Arts & Culture. Through strategic partnerships with organisations across the region, we focus our investments towards the most vulnerable people and support sustainable programmes that have a clear and measurable impact. It is this approach that continues to drive our investment in high impact programmes across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) with the provision of not only our financial capital, but also our human capital through the time and expertise of our employees. J.P. Morgan has a long-standing history of supporting the arts. We see our involvement not as a patronage, but as a partnership, that contributes to the wellbeing of our communities in which we live and work.  Through a three-year donation from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the firm is partnering with the New London Orchestra: to capacity-build their Literacy Through Music programme to an additional three primary schools in Newham; establish a teacher training programme that will see the programme rolled-out to the remaining schools in Newham by 2013, as well as contributing to the teachers' continual professional development; enabling the programme to gain an Institute of Education accreditation."