Music at Del Monte & Mary Bailey House
Music at Mary Bailey House (Curricular)
This week at Mary Bailey it was Grandparents Week, where guests were invited to spend some time with their grandchildren and join in with any activities that they would like to. We were able to take this opportunity to perform some of the songs we have learned this term to our special guests. The children loved this and performed beautifully each time.
Cecilia Pensini
Head of Strings P-4
Music Teacher
Music at Del Monte (Curricular)
In Week 7 it was the Music Assembly, and the student groups which performed were the Taiko Club and the Year 3 Strings. Selected music students also led us in prayers and introductions. The students performed all aspects of the Assembly with aplomb and sincerity. Music learning and performance gives us opportunities to collaborate, to be organised to listen to one another, and of course to give joy to others.
Taiko Club is open for students in Year 3 and Year 4 and is held on Tuesdays at lunch. If you are interested in joining or in having private tuition in a wide range of instruments, please click on this link.
We are really enjoying making music in our music lessons. Some of the activities we are exploring:
- Year 4 has been using xylophones to compose and perform ostinati (repeated patterns) to accompany their Rocky Mountain song. They have combined their ideas and created larger compositions.
- Year 3 space compositions: They have created lots of ideas around the idea of space, and are now applying their music knowledge to their ideas. They have explored graphic and standard notation of their ideas.
- Year 2 has been looking at dynamics (loud and soft) and applying it to their songs and games.
- Year 1 are being music detectives and using their ears to decide if the sounds are pizzicato or arco. They are putting the string family into order from lowest in sound to highest.
- Kindy are developing their singing voices while playing lots of lovely music games.
Prep are enjoying exploring loud and soft, fast and slow. We have discovered that soft is a really tricky concept! However, we are starting to show the idea of soft with our hands, with our instruments and with our movements.
Phillipa Knight
Coordinator of Music P-4
To keep up to speed with all the Co-curricular Music offerings and happenings from P-12 at Santa Sabina College, be sure to jump over to read our Director of Music’s Page. Reach out to the Music Office if we can assist you with any queries you may have about the opportunities available to your child at Santa Sabina College.