Bachelor in Music Education (TCD) 3rd year student Ciara Murphy featured in the Irish Examiner (May 13th 2022) with students from Grace Park Educate Together NS. Ciara, a student facilitator with Quavers to Quadratics in the National Concert Hall, announcing hands-on workshops for primary school pupils exploring the intersection of the worlds of music and science. This innovative programme is available both online and in-person.

Quavers to Quadratics sees children (in 3rd - 6th classes) play with ideas that are common to music and science. Primary schools can now access a series of engaging online (Seesaw) workshops along with in school workshops, workshops in the NCH and in the Gaeltacht which are led, and designed, by university science and music education students.    

Presented by the National Concert Hall, University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin Schools of Education under the leadership of Dr Marita Kerin (TCD), Dr Shane Bergin (UCD) and Nigel Flegg (NCH). The programme is generously supported by Science Foundation Ireland and ESB.

The Quavers to Quadratics programme is led by undergraduate students from science and music who work closely with the participating children’s teachers. “We use an approach called co-teaching, so the teacher is involved all the way through”. A day-long workshop in the National Concert Hall - where the children get to play with various musical instruments and create their own with recyclable materials and imagination - is bookended by two visits to their classrooms by the undergraduate student leaders.