Performing Arts News
North Melbourne Primary School
From Sam Howard, Dan Dinnen and Patrick Connor Performing Arts teachers
You can feel it in the air...
There’s a wonderful buzz of musical and creative energy across Performing Arts at North Melbourne Primary School! Our lunchtime groups are having lots of fun rehearsing and getting their performances ready for the School Fete on Friday 6th November. We can’t wait to share the music, celebrate our talented students and enjoy a fantastic afternoon of performances.
Taking to the stage will be the Errol St Choir, North Naarm House Band, Ukulele Club, Thunderous (our Year 4 Friday lunchtime Rock Band), the newly formed Molesworth St Choir, and two student rock bands coordinated by School of Loving Music, a fantastic local business supporting young musicians in our community.
Students performing with lunchtime groups will need to be at the stage on the wooden steps by 4:10 pm for their performances on the day of the Fete.
Keep your eyes and ears open at the Fete, too, for a few fabulous Parent Bands: Heavy Dads, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Call along with our very own newly formed Teachers Band. There’ll be plenty of musical talent to enjoy!
Meanwhile, our Performing Arts classrooms have been alive with creativity. Years 5 and 6 have been collaborating in groups to choreograph dance sequences, using the structure of a dance from Ghana and incorporating moves inspired by Indigenous hip-hop artist Baker Boy and the 2000s classic Cha Cha Slide.
Years 3 and 4 have been exploring Saman handclap dances from Aceh, Indonesia. Using a chant based on Woi-Wurrung names for local birds as their structure, students are composing their own Saman-inspired handclap dances, bringing rhythm, language and creativity together.
Our Prep to Year 2 students have been creating music on xylophones and percussion to accompany drama work linked to our wellbeing program. They are experimenting with musical tension and release to help tell the story of how emotions can build in difficult situations, and how breathing techniques can help us calm ourselves down. Their music plays an important role in bringing these dramatic scenarios to life! Our Preps have also been having fun sharpening their xylophone skills with the delightful piece Pudding on the Hill.
We’re so proud of the imagination, collaboration and enthusiasm our students bring to Performing Arts. We look forward to seeing our school community come together to celebrate the joy of music, movement and performance at the Fete!