MCMS offers high quality musical instruction on every instrument including voice.
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Music Ensembles
The Music School offers numerous opportunities for students and adults to learn and perform together. Ensembles include orchestra, concert band, choirs, jazz ensemble, rock and blues, percussion, and flute ensembles.
Music Therapy
Music Therapy is an established health profession in which a music therapist uses music and all of its attributes, to help clients meet non-musical goals. These goal areas include, but are not limited to: physical/motor development, cognitive functioning, social-emotional awareness, and communication skills. Playing and/or listening to music activates both hemispheres of the brain simultaneously, opening up new pathways to learn or re-learn skills and is universally accessible.
Queen City Music & Leadership Program
This program gives students grades 6-9 the opportunity to learn how to play an instrument, participate in small group lessons, have guided practice time, play in ensembles, and participate in leadership building opportunities. This program is grant subsidized, and focuses on creating access for students who might need financial assistance.
Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire
We provide programs in the school day, after school and summer camp programs at our center on Varney Street.
Afterschool Troops
Afterschool Troops in several schools for the year, and several troops through 21C Summer programs, several troops in other youth-based organizations, and the Discovery Zone at the Mall of NH where there are free programs for girls, plus we have a robust network of community troops led by volunteers in Manchester, STEM Mobile that brings STEM programs straight to girls, and a Day Camp where girls can attend summer camp (Camp Kettleford)
GEAR UP NH
GEAR UP New Hampshire is one of two grant initiatives within the New Hampshire GEAR UP Alliance. This Federal grant program is designed to help students prepare for and succeed after high school. Participating students will receive services ranging from academic support, career exploration, and college planning. GEAR UP New Hampshire will serve approximately 4,000 students across 15 middle schools, using a cohort model following current 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students through their first year of college. In addition to training and resources, GEAR UP New Hampshire offers scholarships for eligible students who remain in state for college!
FIRST Program Teams
FIRST programs inspire innovation and leadership through engaging, hands-on robotics challenges developed to ignite curiosity and passion in students in grades K-12. Programs include FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge, and FIRST Robotics Competition.
City of Manchester Office of Youth Services
Crisis Intervention and Referral, Middle School – Outreach: school and community based interventions, High School – Wrap for Youth Resilience (WYR): school based supports and intervention, Summer and vacation athletic and enrichment programs. All programs are free.
Services for refugees and other immigrants
BCNH helps refugees and other immigrants navigate their way to safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, and connected lives in New Hampshire. The organization’s case managers are refugees and immigrants themselves and speak the languages of Manchester’s largest refugee communities. For a complete list of services, please visit www.bcinnh.org.
Bag the Butts
Bag the Butts is a statewide initiative that engages schools, groups and business in a shared effort of cleaning up our local communities. It also raises awareness about the environmental impact of cigarette litter and educates participants on the risks associated with tobacco use. Breathe NH provides free toolkits to groups hosting a Bag the Butts clean-up event and also shipping label to send collected cigarette litter to be recycled.
Asthma Care for Kids
This program is helping teachers, parents and coaches to better understand asthma. This workshop is an “Asthma 101” for adults who work with children or young people. This program provides the essentials about how best to manage any child living with asthma.
Breakthrough
Breakthrough Manchester’s unique “students-teaching-students” dual mission provides six years of intensive, tuition-free academic programming to support Manchester students from traditionally marginalized communities on their path to college while inspiring emerging leaders in high school and college to be the next generation of educators and advocates for educational equity.
We do this by:
- Sparking excitement for learning: Motivated students gain the skills and confidence they need to excel in school. At Breakthrough, it’s cool to be smart!
- Creating paths to college: We challenge and prepare students to succeed in rigorous academic programs and aspire to continue their education after high school.
- Promoting careers in education: High school and college students receive training, support, and hands-on experience. They are inspired to become the next generation of educators and leaders in our community through competitive recruitment, research-based training, and coaching from master educators.
All Breakthrough programming, including transportation and meals, is provided tuition-free to students and families and is funded by foundations, businesses, and individuals who believe in our mission. A Breakthrough education offers hope. Breakthrough builds skills and resiliency to get students to college, breaking their family’s cycle of socioeconomic hardships, minimum wage jobs, and language barriers.
Founded in 1991 as Summerbridge, Breakthrough partners with The Derryfield School, Manchester Department of Education, and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Derryfield hosts the Breakthrough program on their campus providing generous in-kind support of benefits, facilities, and administrative needs, as well as legal counsel and governance. The School also serves as Breakthrough’s fiscal sponsor and we fall under their 501(c)(3) umbrella. A partnership agreement was formed with SNHU in 2016 to create our College-Bound program and provide continued support for Breakthrough students during high school years through college matriculation.
Vaping Unveiled, What Everyone Needs to Know
This free program provides youth, teens, parents and educators the opportunity to learn more about the impact of vaping and nicotine addiction on youth, including the latest trends in NH. Learn why teen vaping and nicotine addiction is a public health concern and what you can do to help prevent it. The program also includes resources to help young people quit vaping. Program is currently available is condensed virtual format, and can be modified to meet the needs of the audience.