Primary Newsletter
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Dear Parents and Caregivers, A busy and productive buzz filled the school this week, as lessons were complemented with several excursions and incursions. It was also clear that productivity levels were soaring in the classrooms, as memories of holidays were shelved, and hard work became the order of the day. Schools are often judged on the successes of their academic programme, sporting prowess or cultural and creative activities. And there is certainly value in such measurements of success, as it could be argued that these make up the pillars of any effective education. However, we have always believed that the true measure of success should be how happy the students are to be at school. This is not to say that each day should be without its challenges, as it is also true that we grow as we overcome challenges. We also know that life can often throw curveballs at us, some of which come through the complexities of relationships. We need to learn how to cope with these. However, at the heart of the school should be a focus on creating a space in which the students feel safe to express themselves and to explore their abilities and interests – hopefully with the end result being a happy, nurturing environment. Probably the greatest gift any school can give a student is a space in which he or she is able to develop self-belief. This can only happen where tolerance of others is encouraged, and where students feel unafraid to try out an activity, even if this means stepping out of their comfort zones. Another ultimate goal should be to encourage autonomous self-motivation among the students, rather than relying only on the urging on and applause of others. At Primary School level, we know that adults still play a major role in being the support structures and cheerleaders for the students, but it is always heartening to see the young people growing into self-motivated, socially competent individuals.
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While measuring such aspects of life is far more difficult that looking at the marks on a report at the end of a term, or the results on a scoreboard, this is the measure of success that we hope for in the Primary School – that by the time the students move on to High School and beyond, they have grown in self-belief and are excited to leap into new challenges. In my daily interactions with the students, this is perhaps the most gratifying aspect. As I think back on what they were like a year or two before, I am heartened to notice the changes – confident eyes, an ever-developing self-belief, and warm exchanges between the students. Truly, the education which life teaches us is the greatest of all lessons, and we are privileged to be a small part of that in the lives of our students. Following on from her Gold medal at last year's Composition Competition, Isabella Winkler (Year 6) has now become a published composer, with her piece "A Walk in Paris" published on the Virtual Piano Academy website for students all around the world to learn and perform! To visit the site and watch a video with Isabella explaining her piece, and have a look through the sheet music, visit: https://www.virtualpianoacademy.co/pages/isabella-winkler
Congratulations too to Laura Yin, from Kindergarten, who won First Place at her ice skating competition over the weekend. The competition is run by the New South Wales Ice Skating Association, and Laura was competing to progress to the next level. Ruby Levitt's artwork, ‘The Great Barrier Reef’, has been selected out of over 3000 entries in the Sketch for Survival Junior 2022 competition. It is now on the shortlist and the artwork has been shipped to the UK for final judging. She had to create an artwork of a threatened animal or environment. We will be holding thumbs for Ruby! In addition, her artwork, ‘Our Beautiful Oceans’ was also shortlisted for the Zart Art Awards. The theme of the competition was "Our Environment" and this was her artist’s statement: We are extremely lucky to be surrounded by so much beautiful coastline all around Australia, filled with a unique variety of plant life and sea life, that we can explore and enjoy. I love the bright colours, shapes, patterns and textures that I see when I swim in the ocean. Fantastic creativity, Ruby!
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In Year 6 students enjoyed both an excursion and incursion this week. On Tuesday they were immersed in scientific exploration during their Science incursion. My sincere thanks to Mr Rob Sheldon who ensures that Science lessons are engaging through hands on experiments, explosions, dissections and interactive activities. The students really enjoy their Science lessons each week! Thank you to the teaches of the English/Hebrew Departments and Mrs Jeannine Shainfeld who arranged for the Holocaust survivor, Dr Dasia Black, to share her story with all our Year 6 students on Wednesday. What an incredible women Dr Black is and how wonderful was her commentary after her presentation about our wonderful students! Dr Black added that she has given many presentations to many different schools and our students were exemplary in their behaviour, respectfulness, gratitude, sensitivity and intelligence when questions were open to the floor. My thanks to our year 6 students. Dr Black who gave them an insight into the horrors of that time. This interaction with Dr Black will be invaluable as they read their literature this term. It will be further enhanced as the Year 6s visit the Jewish Museum on Monday. On Monday, some of our Year 5 and 6 mathematicians enjoyed their exposure to the challenges of the Maths Olympiad, which is a wonderful way of stretching them beyond what they have learned in class. On Sunday, we look forward to hearing what our Music students have been up to as they show off their considerable talents at the Music Studio Recitals in Adelaide Hall. The students will no doubt appreciate what should be a large and appreciative audience. Next week, some of our students will be writing their ICAS tests, with the Year 3s starting off on Monday, followed by the Year 4-6 students on Friday. We wish all of them everything of the best as they show off their range of abilities. Tuesday sees the eagerly awaited Athletics Carnival, which should be a fun-filled and enthusiastically supported event. The Year 6s should have their Houses in full voice, as they cheer on their athletes and we all look forward to the event, which was so sorely missed during the pandemic. Enjoy the weekend! Dee Pitcairn Principal
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Sporting Fixtures
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August 2022
Netball Saturday -Heffron Park Netball Courts
Basketball
Reddam 2 v Randwick Rugby Court 32, 2.15pm Reddam 3 v Rose Bay Court 5, 3.30pm
Comets Competition
Reddam 4 v Bondi Court 31, 1.00pm
Girls
Reddam 5 v Mascot, Court 27, 11.45am
Un14s – Reddam Timberwolves v Reddam Mystics 11.20 Ct 4
Reddam 6 v Maccabi, Court 20, 11.45am Reddam 7 v St Catherines, Court 2, 11.45am
Un14s – Reddam Sparks v KHY Astronauts 9.40 Ct 4
Reddam 8 v Randwick Rugby, Court 2, 10.30am
Un 14s – Reddam Mystics v Reddam Timberwolves 11.20 Ct 4
Reddam 10 v Mascot, Court 1, 9.15am
Un16s – Reddam Knicks v SGHS Blob the Blooper 4.30pm Ct 1
Reddam 13 v Mascot, Court 32, 91.15am
Un18s – Reddam Suns v Reddam 1st V 4.30 Ct 2 Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Reddam Suns 4.30 Ct 2
Reddam 9 v Kambala, Court 4, 10.30am Reddam 12 v Saints, Court 22, 9.15am Reddam 14 v St Catherines, Court 9, 10.30am Soccer Primary Saturday
Boys Un12s – Reddam Raptors v Newtown Power 10.30 Ct 1
Un16s – Reddam Rockets v BYE
Under 9s Reddam United V Easts Torino 10.00am Queens Park Mini Field 2D Under 9s Reddam City V Easts Roma 10.00am Queens Park Mini Field 10A Under 10s Reddam United V Easts FC Orange City 12.30pm Queens Park Half Field 12A Under 10s Reddam City V Glebe Wanderers Black 11.00am Heffron Park Half Field 1A Under 11s Reddam Gunners V Easts Orange Athletico 11.30am Queens Park 12A Under 12s Reddam United V Mascot Kings 12.00pm L'Estrange Park Mini Roo Field 1 Under 12s Reddam City V Queens Park Blue Everton 1.00pm Queens Park Half Field 1A
Un16s – Reddam Jazz v Innercity Titan 1pm Ct 2
High School Boys Saturday
Un16s – Reddam Warriors v MPB 2.20pm Ct 1
Year 12 v St Aloysius Lyne Park Rose Bay 4.00pm
Un16s – Reddam Nets v Vikings 7.20pm Ct 1
Year 11v St Aloysius Lyne Park Rose Bay 3.00pm
Un18s – Reddam Heat v MVP Rockets 1pm Ct 1
Year 10 v St Aloysius Lyne Park Rose Bay 2.00pm
Un18s – Reddam Grizzlies v Newtown Kings 1.30pm Ct 1
Year 9 v Kings Lyne Park Rose Bay 1.00pm
Un14s – Reddam Bulls v Newtown Rangers 12.10 Ct 2 Un14s – Reddam Cavaliers v MPB 1 11.20 Ct 1 Un14s – Reddam Mavericks v Newtown Bunyyips 9.40 Ct 3 Un14s – Reddam Nuggets v Inner City Thunder 11.20 Ct 2 Un14s – Reddam Hawks v Sydney Hoopstars Anacondas 1.50pm Ct 2
Un18s – Reddam 6.30pm Ct 2
1st
Year 8R v Riverview, Riverview Field 2A 11.00am
V v Accelerate Warriors Navy
Year 8E v St Patricks, Mason Park No.1 10.00am Year 7 v Riverview, Riverview Field 2B 12.00pm High School Girls – Sunday Under 13s v Maroubra, Coral Sea park Field
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SPORT RESULTS
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Netball Saturday -Heffron Park Netball Courts
Basketball Comets Competition
Reddam 2 v Kambala 30 - 19
Girls
Reddam 3 v St Catherines 32 - 30 Reddam 4 v Mascot 36 - 28
Un14s – Reddam Timberwolves v KHY Astronauts 10 - 43
Reddam 5 v Randwick Rugby 11 - 37
Un14s – Reddam Sparks v Inner City Magic 50 - 12
Reddam 7 v Saints, 19 – 30
Un 14s – Reddam Mystics v Newtown Lynx 18 - 16
Reddam 8 v Reddam 9, 13 - 10
Un16s – Reddam Knicks v SGHS Knives 17 - 15
Reddam 9 v Reddam 8, 10 - 13
Un18s – Reddam Suns v Hoops I did it again 19 - 26
Reddam 10 v Bye
Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Coogee Crystals 43 - 21
Reddam 12 v Randwick Rugby, 7 - 7
Reddam 6 v Rose Bay, 8 - 38
Reddam 13 v Bye Boys
Reddam 14 v Randwick Rugby2 - 2
Un12s – Reddam Raptors v Newtown Eagles 8 - 30 Un14s – Reddam Bulls v Inner City Thunder 24 - 51 Un14s – Reddam Cavaliers v Newtown Rangers 17 - 21 Un14s – Reddam Mavericks v Inner City Ballers 48 32 Un14s – Reddam Nuggets v Newtown Raptors 11 13 Un14s – Reddam Hawks v MPB 1 12 - 37 Un16s – Reddam Rockets v Reddam Jazz 12 - 23
Soccer Primary Saturday Under 9s Reddam United V Pagewood Botany Under 9s Reddam City 4 Dunbar Rovers Yellow 3 Under 10s Reddam United 0 Pagewood Botany Rovers 5 Under 10s Reddam City 5 Easts FC Leicester 1
Un16s – Reddam Jazz v Reddam Rockets 23 - 12
Under 11s Reddam Gunners 0 South East Eagles 5
Un16s – Reddam Warriors v Newtown Rhinos 23 33
Under 12s Reddam United 1 Glebe Wanderers 5
Un16s – Reddam Nets v Accelerate Warriors 51 24 Un18s – Reddam Heat v Maccabi Mavericks 29 41 Un18s – Reddam Grizzlies v Manesis Strength 32 45 Un18s – Reddam
1st
V v Bye
Under 12s Reddam City 11 Pagewood Botany Blue PSG 1 High School Boys Saturday Year 12 v Trinity Grammar, 5-2 Year 10 v Trinity Grammar, 2-4 Year 9 v St Patricks College, 4-0 Year 8R v Scots College, 4-0 Year 8E v Trinity Grammar, 6-0 Year 7 v Scots College, 11-1
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Reddam House Would like to wish a very happy birthday to
Grace Butcher, Ethan Murphy, Jade Chandra, Louis Hughes, Shane Hui, Ryder Swartz,
Jake Edwards Hill, Hugo Holmes, Teddy Snow and Laura Townsend
Who celebrated their special day this week and over the weekend
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Principal & Principal Honour Awards Reddam House Would like to congratulate the following students on their Principal and Principal Honour Awards. Principal Awards recipients:
Octavia Spender-Capps . Ethan Haurdic, Joshua Stesel and Victor Wang
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KINDERGARTEN Kindergarten had so much fun learning all about what our friends did over their holiday break! We heard all about Europe trips, snow holidays, Disney on Ice and Mary Poppins visits! So many fun adventures were had by all, and we are officially back and into Term 3! In Literacy we continued to consolidate all the sight words learnt so far and we were introduced to our first blend, our ‘l’ blend. We explored and had so much fun putting different sounds in front of the letter ‘l’ to make a blend. This week we started using our dictionaries to add more depth and information into our writing! We each have one to refer to whenever we want to add more description to our pieces of creative writing. Kindergarten has been reading each morning independently and practising silently reading to ourselves. We are developing the quiet love of reading and using this time to enjoy the stories we read. Throughout Mathematics this week we continued our focus on skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, along with counting on from a given number. We even learnt the concept of doubling and how that can relate to skip counting too! Being safe inside a car was our focus of PDH this week and we explored some of the possible outcomes that could happen when we are faced with dangerous behaviour in a car. We now know all the rules to use when we are in a car as a passenger. We focused a lot on seasons in our Topic lessons and how they naturally change and happen throughout the year. We discovered how our environment changes throughout each season and how different parts of the world are in various seasons at the same time. We even made our own tree in four different ways to represent summer, autumn winter and spring!
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YEAR 1 In English this week we continued our work on narratives by watching an animation called ‘Something Fishy’ where an everyday object triggers a fantasy story. In this case, the trigger was a washing machine, and the journey was very short – basically putting head in machine and then swimming the short distance into the underwater world. This prompted the students’ imaginations, and they subsequently wrote a short story from the perspective of the main character. They used their senses to plan their ideas first. We also started our Author Studies unit by reading ‘I’m Australian Too’ by the fantastic author, Mem Fox. Mem Fox has a unique perspective on Australia and a passionate love for it, which is obvious in her books, so we look forward to exploring her texts.
In Mathematics, we have been mastering skip counting from zero in steps of 2, 5, 10 and 3, noticing patterns along the way. The students also explored fact families and using their knowledge of addition and subtraction to check answers using the inverse operations, an example being: 15+5=20 so 20-5=15. In Science, the students welcomed visitors to the classroom in the form of mealworms! The students will keep a watchful eye on them and record their lifecycle as they change into beetles over the coming weeks. During our Geography and History lessons, we discovered how people from around the world build their houses differently depending on the climate of the country that they live in. The students were fascinated to learn that some people live in mud huts, house boats, igloos, and wooden chalets due to the climate, materials available and way of living. 1E also presented a thought-provoking item in the K-2 Assembly this week. The focus was ‘having an attitude of gratitude’ and on improving our wellbeing. Another wonderful week in Year 1!
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YEAR 1
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YEAR 2 Our Year 2 students have been captivated already by Wilbur the pig, in our class novel, ‘Charlotte’s Web’. In English lessons, we read about the author, E. B. White, and answered comprehension questions about him. We used our imaginations to place ourselves in the barn. We wondered what we would see, hear, feel and smell and used this to create a descriptive writing piece. Did you know an adverb tells you more about a verb? It can tell you where, how, when, how often or how much something is done. We used an adverb mat to create interesting sentences. Here are some of our sentences with the adverb in bold.
Amelia Marshall-Jones: Today I am going to have beef sausages for dinner. (when) Sophie Corbett: I waited outside early in the morning. (where and when) Mila McDonald: I almost landed my back flip. (how much) Zac Choroomi: I almost fell off my bike today. (how much and when) In Science, we continued to focus on forces. Forces make objects start and stop moving. Without forces, our world would be completely still! Ask your child to show you the items around them that work using a push, a pull or both. They’re everywhere! Our geography lessons this week were an introduction to the word and the concept of ‘Environment’. We labelled some common environments as wet or dry and had some excellent discussions.
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YEAR 3 This week in Year 3, we discussed all things heroic as the students delved into their new Public Speaking topic for the term. What makes a hero? Can anyone be a hero? How do heroes generally behave? These were a few of the questions that students discussed, with many sharing some lovely examples of farmers, comic characters and parents performing heroic acts. Below are some of 3R’s hero poses and explanations about people or characters they think of, as their heroes.
Maria: I chose my grandfather because he used to be a soldier. He was in the air force and saved two people from a sinking boat. Regina: I chose my great grandma because in WWII she went through the concentration camps and survived. Capri: I created a superhero called Manikin Woman. She was a manikin but then she turned into a hero by helping in any tricky fashion situations. If you don’t have enough fabric, she’s there for you! Aliya: My hero doesn’t have a name but lives near the ocean. She saves anyone who needs help, out at sea. She is the ultimate lifesaver. Livvy: Black Widow is my hero as she rescues people from danger and is incredibly smart. Romy: My superhero is a hero because he lived in the middle of a desert. He wanted to make sure no one else felt as upset as he did when he was younger. Poppy: My character is called Styler. She is a fashion extraordinaire. Her tool kit even includes a lipstick laser. It stops villains in their tracks!
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YEAR 4 When asked at the beginning of the week, ‘How much do you enjoy simplifying fractions, Year 4?’, there was a resounding – ‘Not much!’ – in response. However, by the end of the week, the Year 4 students were easily recognising the importance of their teachers’ repetitive proclamation: ‘What you do to the top, you must do to the bottom!’ Students worked hard to understand how to simplify fractions, identify fractions of a collection, mixed numerals, and improper fractions. In doing this, they can show how these are connected and often one another’s equivalent. They practised using a number line to fracture a whole and discovered how fractions can be visually represented in many different ways. Fractions, derived from the Latin word ‘fractus,’ meaning broken, is often a challenging concept to grasp in Mathematics. Therefore, it was a wonderful learning progression for the Year 4 teachers to see the increased confidence amongst our eager learners as their ability to find equal parts of a whole became inherent. Well done on your focus, dedication, and application towards mastering the art of fractions, Year 4.
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YEAR 5 & 6 ENGLISH Year 5 This week, Year 5 read the first few chapters of The One and Only Ivan, while focussing on the qualities of the main characters. Through this, we have begun to explore the book’s main themes of family, friendship, identity, loss and kindness. The relationship between Ivan and Stella is unfolding, and students are recognising that, perhaps, Stella is not as content as Ivan is, living in their enclosure. Ivan’s inner monologue and conversations with his friends requires students to think inferentially and read between the lines. Students are making excellent predictions, backing these up with evidence and clues from the book. Well done, Year 5, with your fantastic engagement and deep understanding of your novel study so far. Year 6 Year 6 is highly engaged in their novel study, Once, focusing on the characterisation of our main protagonist, Felix. This week, Year 6 English students had the privilege of meeting Dr Dasia Black, a Living Historian and Holocaust survivor. Dr Black shared with us her personal story of being born in Poland, and at the age of three, being forced to live in a ghetto in Zbaraz. After years of hardship, Dr Black was then placed in a Christian home, and much like our protagonist Felix, she was forced to hide her Jewish identity. Students then had the opportunity to ask Dr Black questions, which were thoughtful and considered. Year 6 students and teachers were inspired by her tale of survival and resilience. With a greater appreciation of the historical context, and a real-life account of the hardships and loss faced by Jewish children during the Holocaust, Year 6 students have developed a greater empathy for Felix. With this, Year 6 has developed a deeper understanding of his character, his thought processes and his relationships. Dealing with such difficult themes and stories, we teachers are very proud of the maturity shown by Year 6 students so far this term. Well done, Year 6, for the great engagement in your unit this week.
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YEAR 5 & 6 MATHEMATICS In Year 5, the last lessons we had on angles paved the way for investigations into 2D shapes and what defines a 2D shape as a polygon. Noah Butler defined a polygon as having three or more straight sides. Emma Bishay reminded everybody that polygons have to be closed shapes and not open. We discussed that polygons are named after their sides and can be regular or irregular. Thomas Mawer added to this and explained that a regular polygon has equal angles and sides. Asher Levin pointed out that squares are the only regular quadrilaterals and equilateral triangles are the only regular triangles. The Year 6 used Venn diagrams to compare regular and irregular polygons. They studied the different types of triangles and how they are named according to their sides and angles. Students discussed that an interior angle is an angle inside a polygon at one of its vertices. Furthermore, they learned that an exterior angle is an angle outside the polygon which is formed by a side and the extension of an adjacent side. Students proved that the interior angles of triangles sum to 180 degrees. They used this remarkable and important property and proved that to calculate their internal angle sums of a polygon, with more than three sides, split it into triangles. Students took this even further and deduced that the number of triangles within an -sided polygon is 2 less than its number of sides, that is, −2. Using this formula, and multiplying by 180, Year 6 were quickly able to calculate the angle size of any regular polygon.
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YEAR 5 & 6 SCIENCE This week was a very busy week in Science between lessons, incursions and Science Club. During lessons, Year 5 students developed their knowledge surrounding Newton's first law and explored what Newton's second law of motion is. Students were able to identify the laws, provide definitions of each law and describe where they may encounter each law in everyday life. Year 6 students continued studying energy this week. Students started to explore how energy is transferred from one store to another, reinforcing the fact that energy is not created or destroyed but transferred from one store to another. In Science Club, students investigated different acids and bases. Students were able to use red cabbage as an indicator to explore which ingredients were considered acids and which were bases. Once students identified their acids and bases, they were able to taste each ingredient to discover its unique tastes and textures. Proceeding this, students mixed their ingredients together to make sherbet, this is when students discovered what happens when acids and bases are mixed together! Year 6 also participated in a science incursion this week. Students explored the properties of heat and other energies in a fun way. They investigated how heat energy is produced in a multitude of ways, including through friction, motion, electrically and chemically. Students also explored heat transfer through conduction, as they explored the amazing ways in which heat can generate change.
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MUSIC PERFORMANCE Composition Competition 2022 Entries for the Composition Competition close next Monday, August 8 at 5pm. We are very excited to see everybody's wonderful work. Contact Mr Bortolotti if you have any questions, and here is the entry form: https://forms.gle/VYfSVUUfa3KijJUB7 Reddam Idol 2022 Entries for this year's Reddam Idol Vocal Competition close on Friday, August 12 at 5pm. To enter and read more about entry requirements, here is the entry form: https://forms.gle/ sUkrutLsH7FYRqtM8 K-1 Orff Percussion Ensemble The Kindergarten and Year 1 Orff Ensemble have had a lovely start to Term 3. Over the first half of the year, the ensemble was able to solidify the routines of playing in an ensemble, using instruments and using hand signs and solfa when learning new material in rehearsals. This has meant that we have started the term ready to play and learn and ready to take on some new music. We are really looking forward to starting some more challenging repertoire over the course of the term and possibly preparing for an assembly performance when we have a piece of music ready. Great start! Year 3-4 String Ensemble Year 3-4 String Ensembles students have begun Term 3 with a renewed sense of focus and commitment. The students have started to learn an arrangement of the piece 'My Favourite Things' from the musical 'The Sound of Music'. Many students are familiar with the melody of this piece, which meant that they did an excellent job sight reading through the arrangement in their first rehearsal. The piece has 3 beats in a bar to give it its waltz-like bounce, and in our rehearsal this week, students worked on playing with a gentle bow stroke to create a light airy feeling to the opening section. This light bow stroke and soft dynamic is then contrasted with accented notes in the middle section, which fits the lyrics, 'When the dog bites, when the bee stings'. A big well done to Year 3 and Year 4 string players for making a fantastic start to our new piece!
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MUSIC The Year 3 - 6 students dived straight back into melodic and rhythmic dictation this week. This aural skill is one of the more challenging aspects of listening in music, and the children worked hard on the practice exercises in class. Students also revised their understanding of the Concepts of Music, and the appropriate vocabulary for each concept. The children used this knowledge and vocabulary and applied it in their analysis of new pieces of music; the Year 3s listened to 'You're Welcome' from Moana, and the Year 4s listened to 'I'm Still Standing' from Sing. It's so important to be able to describe the music that we hear! Year K students learnt a new Orff song called 'Kangaroo' in their lessons this week. They learnt to sing the piece with lyrics as well as with solfa and hand signs. They had great fun creating actions to accompany the piece, and then learning the piece on the xylophone. Year 2 students focussed on a piece called '1, 2, 3, Johnny Caught a Flea'. After learning to sing the piece, they then developed their notation skills in their worksheet. They learnt to write the crotchet notes, and had to pay careful attention to stem direction depending on which note was in the piece! It was impressive to see their beautifully presented work.
LION KING REHEARSAL SCHEDULE Date
Time
Monday 08/08
3:30 – 5.30pm
Scar, Shenzi, Banzai, Ed & all Hyenas
3:30 – 5.30pm
Rafiki, African Villagers, Featured Ensemble, Birds, Lionesses, Male Lions, Giraffes, Gazelles, Rhino, Elephant, Cheetahs, Zebras, Sarabi & Zazu & Sarafina Mufasa, Nala, Young Simba & Young Nala
Tuesday 09/08
Who
Wednesday 10/08
3:30 – 5.30pm
Scar, Zazu, Lionesses, Mufasa, Young Simba, Young Nala, Sarabi, Sarafina, Lionesses & Featured Ensemble
Thursday 11/08
3:30 – 5.30pm
Simba & Nala
Friday 12/08
2:30 – 5.00pm
Rafiki, Sarabi, Sarafina, Zazu, Scar, Mufasa, Young Simba, Young Nala, African Villagers, Birds, Lionesses, Male Lions, Giraffes, Gazelles, Rhino, Elephant, Cheetahs, Zebras & Featured Ensemble
Saturday 13/08
No Rehearsal
Sunday 14/08
2.004.00pm
Where
“Be Prepared”
Adelaide Hall
“Circle of Life”
Adelaide Hall Music Scenes 2-5 Revision
Primary Drama Room
Pages 97-103
Adelaide Hall
Scenes 1 - 5
Adelaide Hall
Puppetry Workshop
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Timon, Zazu, Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, Elephant, Rhino, Buzzard, Birds & Field Mouse
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