Music at Mary Bailey House and Del Monte

Music at Mary Bailey House (Curricular)

As music class starts again for Term 2, the Mary Bailey House students have enjoyed singing and moving to new songs. We are learning a West African welcome song, Funga Alafia, that has accompanying gestures that reflect the translations. When the students are confident with this, we will create an ostinato on the African drums (djembe) to help keep a steady beat.

Cecilia Pensini
Music Teacher | Head of Strings P-4

Music at Del Monte (Curricular)

The music classrooms at Del Monte are full of the sounds of joyous music! The students have done a cracking job of learning the songs for Mother’s Day Mass, learning, perfecting, and memorising the words and actions. They sing with their whole hearts, prayerfully and joyfully. Year 4 has also been memorising their Gala repertoire and are very excited to be singing in different languages. Excitement is building in the Strings groups and Choirs as we prepare for our Gala performances. Year 2 has been exploring the Families of the Orchestra and played a game called ‘Kaboom!’. Year 1 played the boomwhackers to one of our Gala songs, reading the colours to know which notes to play.

Phillipa Knight
Coordinator of Music P-4

Year 1 – ‘Ode to Joy’ & ‘Fruit & Vegetable Pie’ Composition

Year 2 ‘Orchestra Card Game’

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Phillipa Knight
Coordinator of Music P-4