"The Rockschool on Wheels"

Concept• We're driving into a village with instruments and equipment• Low entry level (no musical skills required)• Instantly playing together in popbands• Learning music by playing cover songs • Pupils choose an instrument• Pupils pick the songs they want to play themselves• Coached by a (often young) bandcoach/artist • The bandcoach is assisted by a music student• Always working towards presentations and concerts• Bottom-up in cooperation with volunteers within the village

ComeOn!Challenge:

Translating the ComeOn! curriculum into a project that suited our school.

Three major decisions made beforehand:

1. Identifying a problem in the community: too few social activities involving young and elderly people

2. Creating a musical encounter between the young and the elderly

3. Working towards a presentation of the musical results.

First meeting (Unit 0/1)

Participants::

Bandcoaches / teachers Robin IIzerman and Roderik van der Werff, primary schoolteacher Manno Bult. Sabine Hoes and Niels Steenstra.11 members of the ”Mixed Male Choir Garmerwolde"10 pupils of Popschool Garmerwolde 1 voluntary technician (55+)1 voluntary filmmaker (55+)

First meeting (Unit 0/1) • Explanation of the project and projectplanning• Teambuilding exercises

- I love.... (stand up if you love to do that too)

- What music do you think the other group likes?

• Comparison with past experiences lived by the older generation• Discussion about the musical taste of the two groups (finding common

ground)

"I didn't expect them to choose such quiet music"

Second meeting (Unit 2/3)Second meeting (Unit 2/3)

Teambuilding exercises- Game with notes (What worries you?)

Discussions about:• Social Innovation and 21st Century volunteering• intergenerational responses to today’s challenges

Forming intergenerational groups and picking which songs to play at the concert.

After the second meeting

Teambuilding by making music together

Third meeting (Unit 2/3)Third meeting (Unit 2/3)

Teambuilding exercise- Carrying the stick

Discussion about what needed to be done to organize the concert

Forming intergenerational workgroups:- Technical crew- PR team- General organization

After the third meeting (unit 4/5)

PR-team activity

After the third meeting (unit 4/5)

Meeting of the technical crew. Designing the technical plan and scenario

The general rehearsal (unit 5)

The Concert (unit 5)

The Concert

The Concert

In the press!

Any questions?