Music at Mary Bailey & Del Monte

Music at Mary Bailey House (Curricular)

Music education provides extensive opportunities for children to develop and refine their gross and fine motor skills, enhancing their overall physical development. In Music classes, the students use various percussion instruments, sing familiar songs and rhymes and learn dances and body movements to various music to further encourage this physical development. Students are continuing to count from 1-5 in various languages and are becoming more sound in recognising the difference between loud and soft, high and low. 

Music at Del Monte (Curricular)

We have so many wonderful music students in Del Monte who practise their instruments diligently and share their love of music with others.

Our Assembly is always accompanied by a rotating group of string performers who play the National Anthem, Happy Birthday, Warami, and the school song. They are also rehearsing for the Fathers’ Day Mass. (SEE PHOTOS)

Liam in Year 3 and Kingsley in Year 4 performed on the piano for their Music Classes. They announced their pieces, played with joy, and bowed at the end, demonstrating their understanding of the performance process. We enjoyed the performances very much and clapped enthusiastically.  (SEE PHOTOS)

Year 2 is working on adding dynamics to their music to make their music even more meaningful. We have discovered that playing fortissimo is easy, but playing piano or pianissimo is quite tricky! (SEE PHOTO)

Instrumental Music Learning Walks!

We are delighted to announce 30 minute Music Learning Walks will be taking place in Week 9 on Monday 11 September. Taking place in the Del Monte Hall, parents who wish to attend must assemble at the side gate where they will be checked in by Music Staff and ushered to sit in on these special ‘open rehearsal’ sessions. Our Curriculum Ensemble experiences greatly enrich other in class learnings as students apply the foundational music skills to an instrument to display what they know.  Many parents hear their children practicing at home, though we hope you will join us for the chance to hear your child’s music learning in context.

Please meet at the Carrington Avenue Gate at the times below:

Year 2 – 11.45am 
Year 3 – 12.25pm 
Year 4 – 2.30pm

See you there!

Curricular Music

Our Curricular Music programs across The Boulevarde are alive and well. Be sure to click the buttons below for reports from each of our campuses.

Phillipa Knight
Music Teacher | Coordinator of Music P-4

Cecilia Pensini
Music Teacher | Head of Strings P-4