The Wayne Greenley Music Scholarship - School of Education

Welcome to The Wayne Greenley Music Scholarship page. Please review the criteria and application information below, along with Wayne's story and passion for community and music.

Criteria

A third-year student enrolled in the Teacher Education Stream.
Preference will be given to a student majoring in Cultural Studies.
Priority will be given to a student who demonstrates interest, experience and future plans related to a vocal music program with students in elementary school
If there are no applicants that meet the vocal music criteria, this scholarship can be awarded to a student with interest, experience, and/or future plans in other musical areas of vocal music such as musical theatre.
The student must be in good academic standing.

Application Deadline & Requirements

Deadline to Submit: Monday, May 11, 2026
Letter of Application must be 1-2 pages, maximum
E-mail to: tesadmin@trentu.ca

About

Headshot of Wayne Greenley Wayne Greenley led a life committed to education and the use of music as a creative tool towards learning and development. Wayne's own education was unique, growing up in Indian River, ON, and attending a one room schoolhouse until Grade 8. After finishing high school at Kenner Collegiate in Peterborough, ON, he completed the Professional Education Program at Peterborough Teacher’s College, but that was just the beginning of his education as he embarked on his teaching career. Wayne studied each summer to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology which he started at Queen’s University and completed at Trent University, followed by a Masters of Education from the University of Toronto, all while teaching full time each year in parallel. Wayne taught for the Peterborough Country Board of Education, moving into management as a Principal at a young age, and led a string of schools to success over 35 years. Throughout this time, Wayne engaged in vocal music pursuits. He personally participated in the Bonaccord Men’s Choir, and musical theatre through the Peterborough Theatre Guild. Wayne leveraged his leadership in schools as both a teacher and a principal to ensure that all students within his reach participated in vocal music through choirs and theatre productions. Throughout his career, Wayne took hundreds of students to the Kiwanis music festival and persistently created singing opportunities for students in the classroom, at assemblies, in festivals, and at venues as large as the Peterborough Memorial Center arena. Wayne even took his passions global, spending a year on exchange as the Principal of Goondiwindi State School in Queensland, Australia, where vocal music was part of the curriculum and he connected with the students through musical theatre. Throughout his entire life, when Wayne would bump into past students, they most often would comment on how their memories of engaging in vocal music events enabled by Wayne were key moments in their lives. These vocal music impacts meant the most to Wayne as an educator, and it is central to his legacy to reward and recognize aspiring teachers to continue to include vocal music in education as they teach the next generation.