Dear Parents and Students

We hope everyone is having a restful and wonderful winter break. With the cold season upon us and likely more time indoors, we hope you will find some inspiration to do some music practice! I have shared some practice tips on page 4 of this newsletter.

We are pleased to share the revised "STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM" for the rest of the year.

These events are intended to give our students a time frame and musical space to set learning goals and develop the habit of practising with goals and intention.

Learning with a curious mindset and practising with intention go hand in hand in achieving success in the music learning journey.

We can look forward to our annual Forte Festival concerts on Sunday 31 August and 7 September from 3:30pm. All Forte classes including Junior Keys, Piano Keys and Creative Keys classes will be involved on either of these two dates. A performance session time will be allocated to each class. Each class will perform a "Concert Piece" and an "Ensemble Piece". We will post further details and let you know actual performance date and time for your child's class. Please save both dates in the mean time.

AMEB EXAMS

We had a great start to the exams in May and June.

Well done to Lucas Chan, Anshul Pharande and Akshadha Manikandan !

Anshul P (Grade 2 Piano) - A

Lucas C -Honours (Grade 1 Piano)- A

Akshadha M -(Grade 5 Piano) - B+

It is coming up again in August this term. We wish our students sitting the exam on 18 August the best of luck! Here is a little guide for the exams during these final weeks of preparation.

FORTE FOUNDATION EXAM

Foundation Exams for all 3 levels - Bronze, Silver and Gold applicable to our Junior Keys students from completion of JKC2, right up to completion of JKC4 and Piano Keys Course students from Level 1b and 2 as well asa Creative Keys 1 students are scheduled on Sunday 14 September 2025.

Learn more about the exams here and have a chat with your child's teacher if you have further questions.

Forte School of Music Mt Waverley

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