World Music Program

The World Music Program has as its highest aspiration the fostering of a compassionate global consciousness through the development of musical skills and the act of creating performance works. It was founded in 2004 by Adrian Dyck and Paige Freeborn, who are its Directors. It is a performance program that provides a context for students to develop interest, curiosity and enjoyment in their own musical creativity and that of others.

The five core pillars of the World Music Program:

Community and Service
Students contribute to their society through community-building experiences. Through these experiences, students have the opportunity to learn about themselves, their community and the world around them. Using their musical skills they discover the ways in which their musical talents uplift the spirits of those around them. Students learn to build investment in their community, integrate into their community and become skillful citizens of their community.

Leadership
Students are given the opportunity to develop leadership skills at every level. In a supported learning environment, students will develop the skills necessary to be a good leader: passion, integrity, organization, responsibility, communication and listening skills, courage, decision-making skills, planning skills, and solid teamwork skills. These skills transfer over to every aspect of their lives.

Mentorship and Training:
Students in the World Music Program are given the opportunity to receive artistic guidance from professional musicians. Working alongside professionals demands the best performance from students and offers students a challenge that is exciting, rewarding, and produces performance experiences of the highest quality. Students are given a tangible taste of the professional musical world as they develop caring, ongoing relationships with their teachers and this interaction gives students access to the highest-calibre of training.

Team Building and Cooperation
Students engage in a constant, collaborative process that involves the development of solid communication skills, good listening skills, and an appreciation for the diversity of skills and personalities that make up a team. Students work together to create something that is bigger than any one of them and experience the magic that happens when people work together to achieve a common goal.

Artistic Excellence
The performance of music at a high level involves the development of skills and character traits that students will carry with them throughout their lifetimes. Commitment, discipline, responsibility, goal setting, decision making and analytical thinking skills are developed alongside their musical skills. Through their involvement students learn to be productive in both individual and team-based settings.


Music is a form of human expression and contributes to our society by offering a distinct way of learning that combines aural, intellectual, visual and kinesthetic communication. Our students come into contact with aesthetic values of their own culture as well as those of other cultures and creative inspiration comes from a variety of sources - diverse soundscapes and ideas found in poety, visual art, science, mathematics and literature. The students are involved in a voyage of discovery, enabling them to sample and experience the many varied aspects of music and musicianship. By learning a wide range of musical skills and exploring different modes of communication in music and world culture, our students are empowered to fully participate in a supportive, caring and collaborative experience.

Brockton School provides a challenging curriculum in a non-denominational, co-educational setting to students in Kindergarten through Grade 10. Located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, the school is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. The World Music Program (WMP) is an integral part of the curriculum for students at Brockton School in grades 6-10. Each student participating in the program has access to a private website accessed through this portal and uses it as a Developmental Workbook throughout the course of their years in the program. Content includes written reflections on their musical and creative process, and may also include audio recordings and video clips created by the student. The online WMP Developmental Workbooks also provide for the distribution of reference material and other information to the students by the WMP directors.