Welcome to a new and exciting year of music at Yeronga State School.

CHOIR AND MARIMBA BAND

As many of you may now have noticed, if your child signed up to the years 4 - 6 Senior Choir (Stella Voce), the years 2 – 3 Junior Choir (the Cosmio Singers) or, the Bashasha Marimba Ensemble (for years 4 - 6 students), you were emailed a letter about the details of these ensembles last week. If you believe that your child should be a member of one of these ensembles but forgot to sign on, please send me an email at leeas0@eq.edu.au and I’ll add your child to the roll and forward you on all of the important details.

CLASSROOM MUSIC

Classroom music lessons have kicked off for 2020. This is what classes will be getting up to this term:

PREP – All About Me – students will sing, play, move to and create music about people, places, animas and objects that are in their everyday lives.

YEAR 1 – Music In Our New World – students will use the words of non-fiction stories and songs about the world around them as inspiration for music making and composing.

YEAR 2 – Musical Stories – students will compose, perform and respond to music that tells a story.

YEAR 3 – Musical Battles – students will perform, compose and respond to music with a combat/battle theme. Students will particularly focus on developing their music reading and performing skills through participation in the ‘Recorder Karate’ program.

YEAR 4 – Songs of Australia – students will compose, perform and respond to music using traditional Australian folk songs as inspiration.

YEAR 4/5 – Celtic Heartbeat – students will compose, perform and respond to music by exploring Celtic music/reels in compound time.

YEAR 5 – Exploring Rhythmic Patterns and Descriptive Sounds – students will perform and respond to music whilst exploring a range of newly learnt simple and compound time rhythms and, the timbre of unusual and uncommon musical instruments.

YEAR 5/6 and YEAR 6 – Uke Can Do It! – students will use the ukulele as the primary instrument for music performances and compositions.

Check out the following photos to see how recently, Years 4 and 5 used the names of fruits and vegetables to practise matching the syllables of words to known rhythms.

Yours in Music,

Lauren Easey.

STRINGS

The strings program is off to a great start in 2020. At the end of last year I challenged the strings students to try to remember to keep playing their instruments over the holidays. It’s been wonderful to see so many students come back to school even better players than they were last year due to keeping up their playing at home. Congratulations to Ethan N. for winning the holiday practice challenge by recording the most practice over the holidays.

It’s always lovely to welcome new students to the program and there are 17 new year 3 strings students in the strings program this year. The students were able to take home their school instruments in week 2 and they’re all very excited to start playing.   

We’ve also had our first few Chamber Strings rehearsals for the most advanced strings players at the school.  The Chamber Strings rehearsals have been extended from 30 minutes to 1 hour each week and I’m looking forward to how much more the group will be able to achieve this year with the additional time.


Mrs Tamsyn Eastgate