Music at Mary Bailey & Del Monte

Music at Mary Bailey House (Curricular)

This term, Mary Bailey House Treefrog students have been rehearsing to perform at the Fra Angelico Festival with the Prep students. This performance is on Friday 22 November at 5:00pm. The students will be performing Funga Alafia and have been working hard to make sure they sing with a beautiful voice and using the correct actions. They are excited to perform and cannot wait to join in the Festival fun! 

Music at Del Monte (Curricular)

Our students have been rehearsing and perfecting their items for Mass and the Fra Angelico Festival. It has been heartening to hear their beautiful singing before Assembly, lifting their voices together. In Community Time they performed their Fra Angelico items for one another and have reflected on what they have learned and what they can do to make their item even better. 

In addition, Year 4 has enjoyed using boomwhackers to explore the concepts of chords and Twelve Bar Blues. Some classes have had some outside learning opportunities, taking their boomwhackers outside to create and perform their chords in groups. Prep are loving the songs and games where they collaborate with one another – taking turns, making new partners and groupings. They particularly like a music piece where they have to dance an ostinato. Year 2 have consolidated their listening skills through playing a complex pentatonic ostinato on the xylophone while singing.

The instrumental students are also gearing up for Fra Angelico, Speech Day and pop-up Christmas concerts. It is most enjoyable to hear the students gaining greater mastery of their ensemble skills when they play their instruments and really listening to one another when they play. 

Phillipa Knight
Coordinator of Music P-4