Music

INTRODUCTION

Holy Family School offers a comprehensive music education program. Music is a wonderful, creative medium that can enhance overall learning at school. Music is taught in each of our classrooms and a wide variety of additional music services and activities complement the classroom teaching.

IMPLEMENTATION OF MUSIC

The teaching of music at Holy Family School is based on three important substrands:

• Performing
• Organising Sound
• Listening.

EDUCATIONAL MUSIC OUTCOMES

As a sample, Holy Family School works towards the following teaching outcomes in music:

• Participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
• Creates own rhymes, games, songs and simple compositions.
• Listens to and responds to music.
• Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
• Explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
• Uses symbol systems to represent sounds.
• Responds to a range of music, expressing likes and dislikes and the reason for these choices.
• Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
• Improvises musical phrases, organises sounds and explains reasons for choices.
• Uses commonly understood symbols to represent own work.
• Identifies the use of musical concepts and musical symbols in a range of repertoire.
• Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, individually and in groups, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
• Improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts.
• Notates and discusses own work and the work of others.
• Identifies the use of musical concepts and musical symbols in a range of musical styles.

MUSIC OPPORTUNITIES

Holy Family School includes the following music opportunities in it’s program:

• Classroom teaching.
• Specialist music teaching (K-3).
• Liturgy.
• Part school assemblies.
• Eisteddfod.
• ‘ABC’ and ‘Upbeat’ music programs.
• ‘Family Night’ presentations.
• Indigenous music and music from other cultures.
• Guitar group.
• Vocal and choir groups.
• School Band.
• Piano Group.
• ‘Musica Viva’ annual program.
• Feature visiting performers.

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Holy Family School values a creative program including the teaching of music.

The school celebrates with music and seeks to engage students in this area of the school’s wider curriculum.