Arts and LOTE
Mr Tyson Manley, Middle Leader Arts and LOTE
Art Beat
Term 4 has seen huge engagement from students in our various arts subjects.
Our Liturgy Band has performed to much fanfare at the farewell mass for Executive Director Bill Dixon and our Year 12 Graduation, our senior Visual Arts students have been gallivanting around the historical scene of Mareeba to plan and prepare their installation at school, Media Arts and Film and TV students have been spotted filming documentaries and trailers all across the school, our vocal group Una Voce performed at the council-hosted senior’s morning tea, and at the Celebration of Excellence alongside our concert band (who just get bigger and better every single time they perform), and our French rotation students are already speaking ‘très bien’ despite just starting out.
All of that in just 4 short weeks!
Liturgy Band members at Year 12 Graduation
Liturgy Band members at Year 12 Graduation
Liturgy Band members at Year 12 Graduation
College Band at the Celebration of Excellence
College Band at the Celebration of Excellence
Una Voce performing at the Celebration of Excellence
Una Voce performing at the Mareeba Shire Council Senior's Morning Tea. (With thanks to MSC for this photo).
Liturgy Band members at Year 12 Graduation
Liturgy Band members at Year 12 Graduation
Liturgy Band members at Year 12 Graduation
College Band at the Celebration of Excellence
College Band at the Celebration of Excellence
Una Voce performing at the Celebration of Excellence
Una Voce performing at the Mareeba Shire Council Senior's Morning Tea. (With thanks to MSC for this photo).
Coming up, we have Jam at the Junction happening on Wednesday of Week 6 – any students interested in performing should reach out to the Cultural Captains to see what is involved, or at the very least, come along and watch the fantastic talent amongst the student group.
If you don’t play music, there’s never a better time to start learning than right now.
Why Everybody Should Study Music
First of all, who doesn’t love music of some kind or another? An integral part of every culture in the world, music is one of the most natural forms of human artistic expression that can unite both the most academic and the most disenfranchised students.
Learning to play a musical instrument has been shown through countless studies to have a massive positive impact on the brain, improving: communication between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, pattern recognition, memory, fine motor skills, verbal and non-verbal reasoning, language decoding, and social belonging when playing with others. This results in an overall more capable brain – it is no coincidence that medical schools all over the world host some of the finest orchestras outside of dedicated symphonic settings.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that music is something to be cut to make way for more important studies – music could be just the thing that prepares the brain for later life, or provide a creative outlet to promote personal growth.
Enquire today about instrumental music for 2025, or chat with Mr Manley about studying music further at school.
Mr Tyson Manley | Middle Leader Arts and LOTE