Junior School 

Performing Arts

Dates for Your Diary 

Friday 11 March – Australian Arm Band (details below) 

Making Music Again! 

We have been delighted that our co-curricular ensembles have once again been able to meet and rehearse together after such a long time. Students and directors alike have been enjoying getting into lots of new repertoire and building new ensemble and technical skills. Here are a few pictures from our students hard at work. 

King Luke (Luke Moxey – JS Choirs’ accompanist) and his merry music makers (Year 2 choir) 

Junior Concert Band

Junior School String Orchestra 

Koristers 

Australian Army Band Concert 

We are very excited to be able to offer members of our Junior Concert Band and students in Years 4-6 who are learning a band instrument the opportunity to attend a performance by the Australian Army Band. This will be a wonderful way to kick off the year and inspire our band musicians. This is guaranteed to be a fabulous experience for all in attendance.  

When: Friday 11 March 1-2pm 

Where: Orange Conservatorium 

Cost: Free 

Travel: Bus. Students will be asked to wear masks on the bus and in the concert venue.  

Teachers: Mrs Sinclair + Teacher’s Aide 

Please complete the permission form: https://forms.office.com/r/M594zsC6Zw by Friday 25 February.  

Chinese New Year Celebrations

Over the last few weeks students in Years 2 and 3 have been exploring Chinese New Year. We have been looking at the ways in which Chinese people celebrate new year with food, dancing and music. As part of our study, we have been manipulating Chinese icons associated with New Year to create rhythm patterns, exploring movement associated with dragon dances using scarves and learning some simple Chinese songs and chants.  

Year 3 have been exploring creating different rhythms using Chinese inspired words and icons associated with new year which they then formed into body percussion patterns.  

Mrs Seedsman’s Year 2 class choreographed their own dance to traditional Chinese music inspired by moves of the tiger, which is this year’s Chinese zodiac animal.  

Co-curricular Dance Ensemble 

We are currently working on securing a director for our junior school dance ensemble and hope to start rehearsing as soon as possible. If your child is in Year 1 and above and interested in joining our ensemble, please can you email interest to Mrs Martin at performingarts@kws.nsw.edu.au so we can notify you when we can begin rehearsals. 

Individual Tuition 

Instrumental lessons and speech and drama tuition is now in full swing. We appreciate parents’ patience and support as our tutors negotiate scheduling students into times that work for students and their class teachers whilst working around timetable and rooming challenges. We encourage parents to reach out directly via email or phone to their child’s tutor with questions relating to their lessons. For all other queries, please contact us as per below.  

Contacts 

COORDINATOR OF JUNIOR SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS: 

Katie Sinclair – ksinclair@kws.nsw.edu.au  

PERFORMING ARTS OFFICE: 

Sharon Martin – performingarts@kws.nsw.edu.au  

K-12 INSTRUMENTAL COORDINATOR: 

Katherine Howarth – kahowarth@kws.nsw.edu.au  

HEAD OF PERFORMING ARTS:

Jackie Shields – jshields@kws.nsw.edu.au