Music

Term 2, Week 8

Term 2 certainly has been a productive term!

Open Night
Open Classrooms
School Readiness Program - Music and Physical Education (2 sessions)
Band, Choir and Ensemble performances at assembly
Mid-Year Soiree

Please read below for an overview of Term 2 in regards to:

School Choir
Mid-Year Soiree
F-6 Music

For all Band & Ensemble news, please turn to the Band page of this newsletter.

Choir

This term, the Grades 4-6 Choir had the opportunity to perform what they have been rehearsing since Term 1 - and WOW, did they deliver! I am so proud of their performances at both Open Night and the Mid-Year Soiree. To sing acapella (without accompaniment) to such large audiences for a first performance is a very brave thing to do! Well done team!

Thank you to all parents of choristers for your support and attendance at both events.

Your children and I appreciate it! 😊

Upcoming Choir Performance - Friday 23rd June (final assembly of term)

The Choir will perform at 2.00pm next Friday. Please note the earlier start time due to the final day of term. We look forward to seeing you there! 🤩

Before their first performance on Open Night

Mid-Year Soiree

Our fabulous Band Co-ordinator, Alwaynne Strentz, has written about the Mid-Year Soiree on the Band page ahead, however, I would also like to acknowledge and thank the following people for helping make the evening an incredible success:

Alwaynne Strentz, Jo Seton, Marianne Fusillo, Andrew Cock
Ken Macdonald, Jake Underwood, Adrienne Garneau, Jirene Beh, Catherine Bates & Laura Harris - our wonderful instrumental teaching staff
Music Captains, Cassie and Louis, for hosting the evening
The Friends of the Band Committee
The BPS Staff
The BPS Community for raffle donations and purchasing raffle tickets
The Parents of our Band, Ensemble and Choir members for your support and encouragement of your child's musical journey

And last (but definitely not least) the 130 Grades 3-6 students who performed - you are AMAZING! Please keep up the momentum, keep practising and keep smiling...... and know that the joy you brought to the audience's faces and hearts is all because of YOUR efforts! 🌟 Congratulations!

Classroom Music

Foundation

Composes beat sequences with a partner using body percussions
Shows the structure of a known song using icy-pole sticks
Sound / silence and reading rhythm icons from left to right of page
Singing songs about our world
National Reconciliation Week – listened to Little Yarns about ‘Belonging’ – it doesn’t matter where you live as long as you are connected to your family and country
Discuss languages spoken at home

Composing beat sequences using body percussion

Grades 1 and 2

Listening activities – identifying tone colour (timbre) of voices
Explores dynamics and tempo using their voices, body percussion and classroom instruments
Practises and performs music, learnt aurally and through reading from invented and learnt symbols
Reads and performs rhythmic notation (quarter note, eighth note, quarter rest)
Creates rhythm sentences using the number of sounds in words, names, objects etc

Grades 3 and 4

Correct care and handling of tuned percussion instruments (glockenspiels, xylophones and metallophones)
Practising signals for ‘ready to play’ and ‘listening’ when using classroom instruments
Holding mallets in the correct position in order to play tunefully
Call and response (leading and following) simple rhythms for body percussion, tuned and untuned instruments
Group collaborations using instruments
Making words using the musical alphabet

Grades 5 and 6

Working in groups to create movement ideas, sequences, and phrases to compose a ‘new’ version of ‘The Bunny Hop’
Performing group dance compositions to peers
Learning songs for performance
Listening for and identifying musical elements (characteristics) in songs – comparing the original ‘Symphony No.5 in C minor’ by Beethoven with the 1976 adaptation, ‘A Fifth of Beethoven’ by Walter Murphy
Acknowledging the Stolen Generations on National Sorry Day
‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’ by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly. Kev and Paul talk about the process of writing the song which tells the story of Vincent Lingiari, a Gurindji stockman who, in 1966, initiated a strike in response to the poor working conditions faced by Gurindji workers, on the Wave Hill Cattle Station