Kinross Wolaroi Family Bulletin

Junior School 

Performing Arts

Mrs Katie Sinclair

AMEB & IMEB Exams

Huge congratulations to all students who successfully sat their instrumental and speech and drama exams over the last few weeks. Our tutors have been thrilled with the results and we are very proud of our students. 

 

There will be a celebration of students’ achievements in our Performing Arts Assembly on Wednesday Week 7 (November 25) where they will be presented with their exam certificates. 

  • David Shaw - Piano:
    Louis Blyth – A+ for Preliminary (Piano for Leisure)
    Audrey Blyth – C for Grade 1 (Piano for Leisure)
    Alexandra Karrasch – A for Preliminary (Piano for Leisure)
    Spencer Williams – B for Grade 5 (Piano for Leisure)
  • Jo Lenton – Piano:
    Andrew Bell - A+ for Grade 1 (Piano for Leisure) 
    Madison Jones - A for Preliminary (Piano for Leisure)
    Georgie Simpson - A for Grade 1 (Piano for Leisure)
  • Lujia Zhang - Piano
    Harriet Boyd - A+ for Grade 1 (Comprehensive)
  • Kylie Gregory – Flute:
    Ella Kerdic - A+ for Grade 2 (Repertoire)
    Georgia Philippe - B+ Grade 2 (Repertoire)
  • Vicky Chatterley – Brass:
    Kaydn McLachlan  - A for Grade 3 Trumpet
    James McRae - A for Grade 3 Baritone
    Percy Meates - A for Grade 3 Trumpet
    Matthew Lowther - A for Grade 3 Trombone
  • Strings results: (Mrs Moxey, Mrs D’Elia, Ms Godfrey)
    Andrew Bell A for Grade 1 Violin 
    Louis Blyth A for Preliminary Violin
    Harriet Boyd A for Preliminary Violin
    Hannah Cunningham A for Preliminary Violin
    Janagan Kandeepan A for Preliminary Violin
    Charlie Kimmins B+ for Grade 1 Viola
    Grace Lowther A for Preliminary Violin
    Samuel Martin A for Grade 3 Violin
    Angelina McRae B+ for Grade 3 Violin 
    Vivian Meates A for Preliminary Violin
    Keeley O’Toole A+ for Grade 5 Violin 
    Georgiana Saran A for Preliminary Violin
    Isabella Vangestel B+ for Grade 2 Violin 
    Olivia Wilson A for Grade 1 Violin 
    Cassandra Philippe A for Preliminary Grade Cello

The IMEB Speech and Drama exams were held last Friday and were very successful. Students from Year 1 to Year 10 participated and all gained outstanding results, being awarded with either a B+ or Honours. Due to the COVID virus there has been less face to face teaching and all worked very hard to obtain the fantastic results. Both Mrs Paix and Mrs Callaughan are very proud of all the students and congratulate them on their passes.

Music Literacy

Last week I referenced links between music education and literacy development. This week Year 1 have been developing their own musical literacy through exploring how music is placed on the music stave. 

 

Here is just a sample of one of the learning activities that takes place every time all our students learn a new song. It is a wonderful complete brain work out!

  1. Students learn a sing a song for several weeks, learning the words, adding actions until it becomes very well-known.
  2. Students keep the beat to the song on knees, shoulders etc whilst singing the song.
  3. Students tap the rhythm (‘the way the words go’) to the song.
  4. Students can swap in between tapping the beat and tapping the rhythm.
  5. Students decipher the TA and TI-TI sounds of the song and sing in time names.
  6. Students sing the song and place the high, medium and low sounds on the corresponding parts of their bodies – head, shoulders, waist.
  7. Students transfer the placement of sound on their bodies to use Curwen hand signs and solfegge sounds that they have learned which correspond to each of the sounds.
  8. Students then explore the relationship of each of the sounds on the music stave – remembering that SOH and MI and ‘copycats’ and LAH is an ‘odd cat’!
  9. Students manipulate bean bags to the correct places on the stave to represent the correct sounds of the song.
  10. Students add stems to the note heads to create TA and TI-TI sounds.
  11. Students can sing in time names, solfegge, note names and text.

…and that’s just the beginning of their incredible musical journey!

 

Here is a sample of some of the work Year 1 have been doing on a song called ‘Johnny’s it’. 

 

Song sung with text:

Song sung in rhythm names:

Song sung with solfegge sounds:

Going Loopy!

Year 6 have been studying loops/ostinatos in different styles of music. Over this term, we have been analysing the loops used in Gotye’s song ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’. The students learnt how to play each of the three main loops on instruments and performed them as a class. Students were given the challenge of recreating and remixing the loops using their choice of genre of music, from country, to world music to electronic dance in GarageBand. Here are a few of the examples showing how you can re-create the same loops in so many ways. 

 

Harriett Sinclair & Lexi Wilkin

Amily Gage & Alice Scholte

Kaiti Smith

Sam Hughes & Charlie Kierle

Ally Luxford & Bukunmi Adetifa

Charlie Swift & Rupert McMichael

 

If you have any questions about the information, please do not hesitate to contact us at the Performing Arts Office at performingarts@kws.nsw.edu.au or 02 6392 0369.

 

Mrs K Sinclair 

Junior School Music Co-ordinator