year 7

makes a song and dance

Timothy Roach

Head of Learning - Performing Arts

The Year 7 Performing Arts Day is primarily an opportunity for students to experience the many opportunities available to them by the BSC Performing arts faculty.  For many students, this is their first opportunity to investigate this learning area and many have not yet considered their potential in this area.  It is the chance to try something entirely new on a more informal basis - try an instrument or perform with their peers - and often they find a passion that they never knew they possessed! 

It was a noisy day - filled with the sounds of students trying instruments -  violins, guitars, percussion, trumpets etc - and singing songs.  They also learned some basic dance choreography and gained drama skills. To follow this, they were asked to design and perform an act at the end of the day.   All students were asked to contribute to this performance - by playing music, singing, dancing or acting - so preparation and collaboration were key components.  Helping students to work together is the highlight of the day as you can witness the confidence in their own ability and creativity grow.

To lead, support and encourage the Year 7 students, the Peer Support Leaders (Year 10 students) were assigned to stay with each Year 7 class, assisting the teachers and younger students as they moved through the different activities.  Engaging with their younger peers in this way is another step along a path of smooth transition into high school -  building connections, fostering friendship across the year levels and further establishing their sense belonging to the BSC community. It was fabulous to watch the friendships forming and to see the activities bringing all the students together.​

To lead, support and encourage the Year 7 students, the Peer Support Leaders (Year 10 students) were assigned to stay with each Year 7 class, assisting the teachers and students as they moved through the different activities.  Engaging with their younger peers in this way is another step along a path of smooth transition into high school -  building connections, fostering friendship across the year levels and further establishing their sense belonging to the BSC community.

The cohort certainly embraced the spirit of the Performing Arts Day and gave it their best shot. They all brought enthusiasm and energy to every class and activity and can be proud of their achievements. We look forward to many of them returning to join the PA learning area by taking up instrumental music lessons and/or joining one of our many Co-Curricular activities.

Mia Brown

Year 7

I really enjoyed the day because it was a chance to work with different people. I like acting, and it was good to see what other people liked and what their interests and strengths are.

Linn Thit

Year 7

We spent time working as a class to make a nursery rhyme into a play - A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea.  Throughout the the day we got to work as a team and create better bonds with each other. It was also a lot of fun.

Josephine Coyle

Year 10

Peer Support Leader

The Year Seven Performing Arts Day was a really great experience for me as a Year 10 Peer Support leader. It was a chance to really get to know the Year 7 students.  This is a pretty rare chance, particularly as being in the senior school we don’t have many classes around each other. It was also really great to contribute to the process of making the performances (which were awesome) and to see the process more from a teacher’s perspective. I really enjoyed the day and I had a lot of fun with my Year 7 class.

Sienna Calvani &

Anna Orford 

Year 7

On the 14th February, the Year 7s participated in a full day of performing arts, and split up to work on a class performance based on a nursery rhyme. We got to work with lots of different teachers throughout the day, as well as some lovely year ten helpers. Each performance incorporated dancing, music and acting which was taught in the first two periods. In period three, the classes planned and rehearsed their acts as a team, so they could present their final acts in the gym to the rest of the grade, staff and Year 10 helpers. In our class (7K), our nursery rhyme was Jack and Jill  which was changed in the music session to an ‘Australian version’ but wasn’t included in the final act. Many of our class played a variety of instruments for the act which benefited their music skills while the rest faced our fears and acted out the scene. Overall, the day was very enjoyable and was a wonderful start to Year 7!