Orchestras in Schools !

The Orchestre à l’École association, as a national resource center, focuses its activities around four main areas:

• Supporting project leaders and funding instrument collections: the association assists and supports those who create and run school orchestras on a daily basis, providing guidance from the very beginning of the orchestra creation process.

• Pedagogical support for teachers: it provides instructors with a wide range of tools designed to enrich and support their teaching practices.

• Development and implementation of artistic and educational projects: these initiatives allow children and teaching teams to meet artists and perform in professional conditions, including in concert halls and other prestigious venues.

• Awareness-raising and advocacy with public decision-makers.

Through the support of ALTRAD Solidarity, three schools located in the Gard, Vaucluse and Alpes-Maritimes departments were able either to renew their instrument collections or to create their own school orchestras.

As a result, nearly 100 children in CE2, CM1 and CM2 from mixed to disadvantaged backgrounds have had the opportunity to discover music and experience its many benefits—educational, social, cultural and cognitive.