Music at Mary Bailey House and Del Monte

Music at Mary Bailey House (Curricular)

As the students are becoming more independent and confident with expectations when using the percussion instruments, Mrs Pensini has included more instruments in this week’s lessons. Students were able to use egg shakers, drums and scarves. By playing with the scarves while dancing and moving to music, we can teach your children about boundaries and help understand what is around them. Music that has been chosen to move to is Classical music, which encourages the students to listen to a different genre of music than they may usually listen to. They have enjoyed listening to Saint Saëns and his composition of Carnival of the Animals. 

Music at Del Monte (Curricular)

Make a joyful noise to the Lord! Singing is always at the heart of what we do at the school that sings! We have been rehearsing our singing for respectful performances of the National Anthem, the College Song and our liturgical songs and hymns of praise. Using our voices respectfully means we are listening to ourselves and moderating our behaviour to make collaborative music, joyously. In Year 4 and our choirs we are focusing on learning our Gala Concert repertoire, some of which is in languages other than English, a new challenge for our students.  Other year groups are exploring the different instruments who belong in an orchestra, and their families. Instruments have lots of ‘cousins’, just like our own families do, and we notice what is the same and what is different. 

Phillipa Knight
Coordinator of Music P-4