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Performing Arts News

It has been a busy time in the Music Room this term, as students in Year Three to Year Six put the new set of ukuleles through their paces. Students have focussed on the concept of MIssing Pieces: Respect, Dignity and Identity of People. They have explored the conversation around reconciliation with Australia’s First Nations people and their experiences of grief and loss since the colonisation of Country. Students discussed the story Somebody's Land (By Adam Goodes and Elly Laing) and compared the themes in the text to the concept of ‘Missing Pieces’. The students worked so well as (mostly) beginners on the ukulele to learn the song Missing Piece by Vance Joy. 

The Year One and Two students will ‘get to know’ the ukuleles in Term Two, as the Year Three to Six students shift their learning focus to playing acoustic guitar, bass guitar and keyboards. All the while, the Foundation students have developed confidence with using their singing voices and coming to understand the basic concepts of music, such as beat, rhythm, pitch and tempo. They have had some great fun playing short melodies to music accompaniment on the chime bars and navigating a range of non melodic percussion instruments.

All going well, it is hoped that  choir rehearsals for Year Two to Year Six students will commence in Term Two,  in anticipation of some performance opportunities later in the year. Watch this space!

Yours in faith & harmony.

Emma Chapple

-Religious Education Leader

-Performing Arts Classroom Specialist Teacher

echapple@sbsomerville.catholic.edu.au

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