St George's Superstars

Cross Country

We are doing our best to keep up with all of Lia (pictured above) and Fieke’s achievements in the endurance sport of cross country running. The Dragon is happy to report that Lia (Year 9) just won the SSWA Cross Country championships while and fellow St George's runner Fieke (Year 7) came third!

Bring on the ACC Cross Country for all our Dragons.

Memories of Mumbai

In case you missed it on our socials, Mr Michael Newton, our Head of Music, has written about his recent adventures at the ‘Big Gig’ international music teachers’ conference in Mumbai, India, including time spent at the Dharavi Dream Project in Asia’s largest slum. 

Here is an extract . . . 

"Mumbai is a huge city, with population almost the same as that of Australia. It’s crowded, chaotic, vibrant, pulsating, constantly noisy (particularly horns) and never has a dull moment. The people were beautiful, gentle and welcoming. While in Mumbai I took the opportunity to visit other schools to look at their programs and gain some innovative ideas. The schools I visited were high-rise schools, much like my own St George’s in the Perth CBD. I saw some very interesting use of music technology and the accessible creativity it offers students, along with an Australian teacher wrangling the American band system of music education, something very foreign to both of our backgrounds and training.* I also came across some interesting curriculum ideas, particularly in the International Baccalaureate, and had to get to grips very quickly with a whole new set of acronyms I’d never encountered before. Doesn’t matter where you go, education loves a good acronym . . .

Visiting the Dharavia Dream Project – inside a slum of one million people - and seeing the meaning and joy it brings to young lives, as well as to those leading it, was a gentle reminder of why music exists, and therefore why we teach music. It was a reminder that it’s all too easy to get caught up in the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of teaching music, to lose the central point of the whole thing; music is fundamentally something people do, most have no formal training, and they do it because music makes life better.''

Read the full story in ASC News.

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