Music

What a wonderfully busy and exciting year of learning and opportunity we have had in the Music Department this year. We began the year with a fabulous start by planning all of the wonderful events we were going to participate in and attend for the year. We attended the Festival Opera performance of the opera ‘Cav & Pag’ as part of the Napier Art Deco Festival and the students learned a lot about attending a classical performance and watching a performance in another language. We were well under way with our learning and performing when we had to make the massive change to learning online. Luckily for our subject, it is possible to make, share and learn about Music in an online environment. We all became very familiar with the Zoom meeting schedules and listening to performances online became a global requirement. Along with this we lost nearly every one of our planned performance opportunities and had to keep our audiences contained to the classroom.

Despite these changes, we have grown and learned new ways to share our learning and creativity with each other. We have successfully navigated our way through another academic year and finished on a high. We have introduced new traditions in both the music classroom and the school which I hope will continue well into the future.