This is particularly so in the earlier years of the Primary School, where the adventure of learning about letters, word and sentences is still in its infancy. I always refer to the these as the miracle years, as there is probably no other time in a child’s education that they learn quite so much in such a short space of time. And at the heart of it all is reading. We all love stories. We are in the midst of writing our own stories in the lives we lead, and we love hearing stories about others, especially if they take place in interesting locations, with tantalising plotlines. Stories engage us and capture our imaginations. They also help us to see that other people overcome challenges similar to those we might face inn our own lives.
Last week, the Year 6s were privileged to meet Holocaust survivor, Dr Dasia Black. That experience will make the novels they read and study in English, which deal with the Second World War, so much more powerful. Research has often shown how stories are able to develop children’s social-emotional skills, because they present real-life situations, but within the ‘safe’ context of a book. They also often show the protagonist overcoming challenges similar to those which children might encounter.
Dear Parents and Caregivers, From excursions, to a highly successful Athletics Carnival, to the challenge of ICAS tests, the exuberance of the Music Studio Recitals, and everything in between – it was certainly a busy and fun-filled week that the students and their teachers had in the Primary School!
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Amongst all this busyness, there were also moments of calm. And quite often, the calm was accompanied by an escape to another place, to a different time, with fascinating individuals. I am, of course, referring to the wonderful world of reading. The teachers often comment on the special times they have with the students as they read together. Nothing has the ability to transport us to magical worlds quite like reading.
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SISTINHU
From the youngest readers in the school, who might be more captivated by the vivid pictures in their books and by the animated voice of their teacher, to those at the higher end of the Primary School, we trust that reading will remain at the centre of all they do. Because nothing can lighten up a day quite the same as a few moments of escape as does a good story, and nothing reveals more about our connectedness as humans than imagining ourselves embedded alongside the heroes and heroines of those stories.
Lucia Zagora - Discus (19.38m) & Shot Put (8.85m)
The Athletics Carnival, held at the ES Marks Field on Tuesday, was a roaring success. The weather played its part, and the students had a wonderful time competing and supporting their friends. My thanks to all the staff who contributed so much to ensure that the event could be enjoyed by so many. My sincere thanks to Mr Tom Cooper who organised this excellent event. Not only was it a fantastic day of mass participation, but a number of records also tumbled. 2022 has been a special year for many of our athletes, as several went on to represent either ASISSA, CIS or NSW All Schools at Cross Country last term. As such, it was great to see this form transfer to the track/field. Congratulations to all who competed – and special mention of the following record-breakers:
Lauren Lim - 200m (32.74s) Krishna Inder - 200m (30.38s) Mimi Tolnay - 800m (2.54.53s) & High Jump (1.19m) Michael Rodov - 800m (2.43.16) Theodore Zagora - 800m (2.56.59s)
The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 3 SISTINHULast Saturday, Gisele Green was selected to compete for Eastern Gymnastics Academy at the state trials. She placed 1st on floor, 3rd on beam, 6th on vault and 5th overall. Based on her scores she was selected to represent the Gymnastics NSW Inner City Region team in the intermediate state competition. We are very proud of the work and dedication she has shown to get to this point, and we wish her everything of the best for her next competition. Next week will round off with the Composition Competition on Friday, which should be a fascinating event at which our music students show off their considerable abilities. Enjoy your weekend! Dee PrincipalPitcairn
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The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 5 SISTINHU ATHLETICS CARNIVAL BONDI BRONTE COOGEE 1379 1442 1515 7/8 Years 9 Years 10 Years 11 Years 12 Years Boys Champion Oliver McLellan TheodoreZagora Michael Rodov Krishna Inder Oliver Kalan Boys Runner Up Ishaan Hamieh James Plaskett Marcus Palermo Ashan Menon Zachary Ireland Girls Champion Rhea Sotiris Shanti Inder Yeo-SpanbrookCharlotte Mimi Tolnay Lauren Lim Girls Runner Up Ivy Zagora Estelle Lake YeoAndreaSpanbrook Lucia Zagora Petra Saboisky ATHLETICS CARNIVAL - AGE CHAMPIONS
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7 v Kincopal, Court 1, 11.45am Reddam 8 v Kincopal, Court 3, 10.30am Reddam 9 v Randwick Rugby, Court 4, 10.30am Reddam 10 v Maccabi, Court 2, 9.15am Reddam 12 v St Catherines, Court 23, 9.15am Reddam 13 v St Catherines, Court 34, 9.15am Reddam 14 v The Juniors, Court 10, 10.30am PrimarySoccer Saturday Under 9s Reddam United V Mascot Kings 10.00am Lestrange Park Field 1 Under 9s Reddam City V Easts Yellow Inter 10.00am Queens Park Mini Field 2D Under 10s Reddam United BYE ROUND Under 10s Reddam City V Maccabi Black Hawks 11.00am Waverley Synthetic Field 2A Under 11s Reddam Gunners V Easts Madrid 12.00pm Queens Park 11A Under 12s Reddam United V Maroubra Bisons 2.00pm Coral Sea 3/4 Field A Under 12s Reddam City V Maroubra Dragons 12.00pm Coral Sea 3/4 Field A High School Boys Saturday Year 12 v Kings Wanderers Field 11.00am Year 11v Kings Wanderers Field 10.00am Year 10 v Kings Massie Field No. 3, 12.00pm Year 9 v SHORE Lyne Park Rose Bay 1.00pm Year 8R v Kings Massie Field No. 3, 11.00am Year 8E v Kings Massie Field No. 3, 10.00am Year 7 v Kings Massie Field No. 1, 10.00pm High School Girls – Sunday Reddam House U13 v Queens Park U13 Angels, Queens Park Field 8, 11:30 am Reddam House U17 v Maroubra United U17, Coral Sea Park Field 2, 1:50 pm
The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 6 I SPORT FIXTURES Sporting Fixtures 13th August 2022 GirlsCometsBasketballCompetition Un14s – Reddam Timberwolves v Reddam Sparks 9.40 Ct 4 Un14s – Reddam Sparks v Reddam Timberwolves 9.40 Ct 4 Un 14s – Reddam Mystics v Inner City Magic 11.20 Ct 4 Un16s – Reddam Knicks v SGHS Clock 4.30 (Friday Un18safternoon)–Reddam Suns v All Blacks 4.30 (Friday afterUn18snoon) – Reddam 1st V v SGHS Airballers 5.15 (Friday afternoon) Boys Perry Park Courts Un12s – Reddam Raptors v Sydney Hoopstars Adders 10.30 Ct 1 Un14s – Reddam Bulls v Reddam Hawks 12.10 Ct 2 Un14s – Reddam Cavaliers v Reddam Nuggets 1.50 Ct 2 Un14s – Reddam Mavericks v Big Dream 10.30 Ct 3 Un14s – Reddam Nuggets v Reddam Cavaliers 1.50 Ct Un14s2 – Reddam Hawks v Reddam Bulls 12.10 Ct 2 Un16s – Reddam Rockets v Inner City Titans 1 Ct 4 Un16s – Reddam Jazz v Newtown Force 12.10 Ct 4 Un18s – Reddam Heat v CYS 1.50 Ct 1 MPCYC Un16s – Reddam Warriors v MVP Cheetahs 2.20 Ct 1 Un16s – Reddam Nets v Newtown Pythons 4 Ct 1 Un18s – Reddam Grizzlies v Maccabi Heat 1.30 Ct 2 Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Inner City Rockets 5.40 Ct 2 Netball Saturday -Heffron Park Netball Courts Reddam 2 v Kincopal, Court 32, 3.30pm Reddam 3 v Rose Bay Court 6, 2.15pm Reddam 4 v Randwick Rugby, Court 33, 1.00pm Reddam 5 v Kincopal, Court 25, 11.45am Reddam 6 v Mascot, Court 19, 11.45am
The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 7 I SPORT RESULTS Sporting Results 6th August 2022 Basketball Comets Competition Girls Un14s – Reddam Timberwolves v Reddam Mystics 9Un14s7 – Reddam Sparks v KHY Astronauts 26 - 8 Un 14s – Reddam Mystics v Reddam Timberwolves 7Un16s9 – Reddam Knicks v SGHS Blob the Blooper 15Un18s17– Reddam Suns v Reddam 1st V 17 - 58 Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Reddam Suns 59 - 17 Boys Un12s – Reddam Raptors v Newtown Power 32Un14s0 – Reddam Bulls v Newtown Rangers 8 - 51 Un14s – Reddam Cavaliers v MPB 6 - 49 Un14s – Reddam Mavericks v Newtown Bunyyips 37 - 14 Un14s – Reddam Nuggets v Inner City Thunder 12Un14s44 – Reddam Hawks v Sydney Hoopstars Anacondas 8 - 32 Un16s – Reddam Rockets v BYE Un16s – Reddam Jazz v Innercity Titan 33 - 31 Un16s – Reddam Warriors v MPB 27 - 26 Un16s – Reddam Nets v Vikings 20 - 0 Un18s – Reddam Heat v MVP Rockets 36 - 34 Un18s – Reddam Grizzlies v Newtown Kings 23 - 29 Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Accelerate Warriors Navy 36 - 43 Netball Saturday -Heffron Park Netball Courts Reddam 2 v Randwick Rugby 32 - 30 Reddam 3 v Rose Bay 19 - 30 Reddam 4 v Bondi 41 - 13 Reddam 5 v Mascot, 18 - 25 Reddam 6 v Maccabi, 17 - 29 Reddam 7 v St Catherines, 28 - 8 Reddam 8 v Randwick Rugby,15 - 5 Reddam 9 v Kambala, 14 - 1 Reddam 10 v Mascot, 16 - 16 Reddam 12 v Saints, 20 - 8 Reddam 13 v Mascot, 2 - 18 Reddam 14 v St Catherines, 2 - 6 PrimarySoccer Saturday Under 9s Reddam United 0 Easts Torino 2 Under 9s Reddam City 2 Easts Roma 0 Under 10s Reddam United V Easts FC Orange City UnderFORFEIT10sReddam City 0 Glebe Wanderers Black Under411s Reddam Gunners 4 Easts Orange Athletico 0 Under 12s Reddam United 0 Mascot Kings 7 Under 12s Reddam City 6 Queens Park Blue Everton 1 High School Boys Saturday Year 12 v St Aloysius 2 - 1 Year 11v St Aloysius 0 - 1 Year 10 v St Aloysius 0 – 1 Year 9 v Kings 0 - 5 Year 8E v St Patricks College, 2-0 Year 8R v Riverview, 10-0 Year 7 v Riverview, 3-2 Reddam Girls U13’s v Maroubra United Thundercats, 1-5 Reddam Girls U18’s v Maccabi Hakoah, 0-6
Reddam Oakley, Rocky Walker , Felix Bootlis, Ria Kroon, Alma Napthali, Lena Pal, Jayden Kong, Isaac Fan and Shanti Inder
House Would like to wish a very happy birthday to Jarvis
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Who celebrated their special day this week and over the weekend
The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 9 Reddam House Would like to congratulate the following students on their Principal and Principal Honour Awards. Principal Awards recipients: Sabina Anderson, Brayden Chen, and Camielle Yuan Principal Honours Awards recipients: Ralph Thompson , Arabella Walter, William Feng, Eason Yuan Principal & Principal Honour Awards
Reddam Dalon Gruber, Michael Sun, Eloise Shields, Alma Napthali, James Steiner, Elvin Ni, Elizaveta Gracheva, Olivia Milla-Horne, Eve Hutton, Matilda Muhlman & Leon Canturi
Principal & Principal Honour Awards
House Would like to congratulate the following students on their Principal and Principal Honour Awards. Principal Honours Awards recipients:
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Bike safety was our focus throughout our PDH lessons this week. We spoke about the 5 rules of bike/scooter safety and the reasons for having these specific rules to keep us safe. We all loved discussing the importance of wearing bright clothes to be seen on the side of the road when on our scooter or bike. Weather was our focus in our Topic lessons this week. We discussed the different activities related to specific types of weather and why weather plays a big role in deciding what activities we can do. We are all experts when faced with indoor wet weather play here at school. We got super creative and designed our very own class weather charts.
We had SO much fun at our Athletics Carnival on Tuesday! What a big run that 400m race was and didn’t we all show so much resilience to finish that race together with our friends! Our teachers are all SO proud of us for pushing through and putting in so much effort!
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In Literacy we were introduced to three new pink sight words. We practised writing these into sentences and explored the definitions of each. Throughout our handwriting we focused on writing out capital letters and we talked about when we need to use capital letters in our writing. During our writing lesson on Wednesday, we had a great time reflecting on our Athletics Carnival and we wrote all about our favourite things that happened that day. We have continued to read silently and independently each morning to develop our love of reading and our comprehension skills. Throughout Mathematics this week we explored the concept of grouping! We used different objects to divide and make equal groups. We were even lucky enough to share out tiny teddies into equal groups before gobbling them all up. Kindergarten has been so clever to notice the link between grouping and repeated addition.
KINDERGARTEN
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This week, Year One became botanists. They learned the vocabulary involved in naming parts of a plant and its needs to thrive. With that information in hand, they planted our very own inclass flower boxes. We do hope to see them in full bloom – fingers crossed we take care of them well enough! In History and Geography, we continued to look at shelters. We studied the information text 'Strange Homes'. You would not believe how weird and wonderful some places are. We compared and contrasted our own homes. We thought about why our houses may be different/similar, while thinking about the needs of our environment and the natural elements and technology we have in Australia.
Of course, we were dazzled by Year One's effort at the Athletics Carnival. We hope you all got as much fun out of it as we did. The children enjoyed it so much and demonstrated such supportive care for each other. Well done, Year One! YEAR 1
Author Study gave rise to character focus. We honed in on the mum in 'Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild' by Mem Fox. We came up with a word bank of adjectives that were appropriate for her and why we thought she met those adjectives. We also looked at the language that was used and how the illustrator depicted her. This is paving the way for us to develop varied language for our own characters as we develop our narrative writing.
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Wet environments continue to be explored in our History and Geography lessons. The students learned about wetlands and Kakadu National Park. It was interesting to hear first-hand accounts from the students who have been lucky enough to visit this national treasure, as they described the wonder and beauty of all the living things that make up such a precious UNESCO environment. Our Science and Technology focus continues the theme of forces. We investigated the different forces of push and pull, identifying ways we use these forces in our everyday lives, such as tying shoelaces, brushing our teeth and getting in and out of our chairs. Fun with push and pull can be dancing, climbing up, sliding down and playing Tug-o-war.
The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 15 Week 3 in Year 2 was filled with lots of activities and fun at the Athletics Carnival, which forms part of our PDHPE programme. Our spelling blends this week were ‘sh’ and ‘th’ words. We loved thinking of as many words as possible which contain those blends and we used them creatively in our sentence construction. The students are making steady progress with writing interesting sentences that include verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns and can be simple, compound, or complex. We are working on building cohesive paragraphs in our writing and creating vivid descriptions that readers will find both entertaining and interesting. This is a feature of the narrative genre we are exploring with our novel study of “Charlotte’s Web”. In grammar we focused on the suffixes ‘ful’ and ‘less’ and discovered that if we add these to the root word they change the meaning, for example: care becomes careful or careless. In Maths, we are becoming more proficient in our mental arithmetic and using halving halves to get to quarters more quickly. Year 2 students know that learning the multiplication tables helps calculations and we encourage them to practise each day, when possible. We solved simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies and learned how to represent division as grouping into equal sets to solve simple problems using these representations. The students investigated the effect of one-step slides and flips with and without the use of digital technologies. We also focused on telling the time to the quarter hour using the language of ‘past’ and ‘to’ on analogue and digital clocks.
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In Year 3 this week, we were excited to continue learning about the communities that make up Australia. We have learned about how Australia is a multicultural nation, and we listed the diverse communities that we are a part of, comparing their similarities and differences. The students looked at clips on the differences between urban, suburban and rural areas, and how people live in each of these places. They applied their maths skills in Geography by drawing a graph, which was a fun and challenging Obviously,activity.
Freddie Harries: “Using the grid was fun because it helped me find the animals easily and it is a useful skill.”
YEAR 3
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Lylah Ryvchin: “Using the atlas and its index was quite challenging, but I loved finding places on the map and learning how to use an index.” Our learning did not stop there! We started looking at lines of latitude and longitude. Soon we will all be top map and atlas users.
when looking at where communities are located in Australia, we have to have great mapping skills. We learnt that good maps have a title, a key or legend, a compass rose, a scale and a grid. While learning about how to use the grid, we located wild animals in a zoo and played battle ships. We even used the index of an atlas to find natural features around Australia. What fun that was.
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The main event of the week was undoubtedly the Primary Athletics Carnival, held at ES Marks Athletics Field. The Year 4s had a terrific time participating in all of the events with wide smiles. Year 4 teachers would like to congratulate all students on their great enthusiasm, excellent behaviour and camaraderie, showing all that the best of their abilities is heightened by a great attitude towards the sport, and the cheer and encouragement of their friends and teammates. Year 4 would also like to thank the parents for coming along to lend their support. While the pursuit of a common goal and working together as a team was the overarching message of the Athletics Carnival, the Year 4 Moral Studies classes explored quite the opposite idea. Students were posed with the questions, ‘What does it mean to be an individual?’, ‘How can one express their individuality?’ and ‘When is it appropriate to express my individuality?’. Through looking at stereotypical jobs for men (such as being a soldier, a fighter pilot or a surgeon) students learnt about how we break gender roles and challenge our own Finally,bias.in English, we explored the features of diary entry writing. Diary entries are similar to narratives in that they sequence interesting events in chronological order, they are written in the past tense, they invoke the 5 senses and employ like literary techniques, including time connectives. A few of our students made the acute observation that “it [reads] like the person is talking to you.” Upon this discovery, we tried our hand at making our writing more informal and, in turn, more personable to help the reader feel more connected to our storytelling. Let’s take a look at a diary entry as written by the Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk: Friday 12 August Dear Diary, This morning was one of the worst mornings ever! My arm is still sore from the fall. I think my tooth got knocked out too (I am in so much pain), but I am still writing this anyway. So, I was having such a good nap, right until a tiny, annoying, little scab woke me up. But you wanna know the worst part about the little twit? He stole my golden egg laying goose, my lovely harp and, most importantly, my beautiful sack of gold. Anyway, I am legit so mad right now, I could actually explode. If only I could have captured that tiny little annoying thing. I would’ve eaten him for breakfast! Right now, I can imagine how delicious his flesh would’ve been with a side of golden goose egg. Anyway, next time if that brat comes up here (he would have some nerve), I will capture him and smash him into 1000 pieces. - Romi Gor, 4D YEAR 4
YEAR 5 & 6 ENGLISH YEAR 5 & 6 SCIENCE
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Year 6 students used their knowledge of energy to calculate the efficiency of a range of products. Students calculated the efficiency and then identified which products would be the best to use in order to save money. Students were also introduced to renewable and nonrenewable energy stores, studying how each of the resources are powered and how they actually operate. In Science Club this week, students made slime! Students mixed different chemicals and added their own coloured glitter to produce big slime balls. There was a lot of mixing and a lot of sore arms, but students did amazingly well and everybody's slime looked great!
Year This week, Year 5 continued to read chapters of The One and Only Ivan, while focusing more on characterisation and how the author Katherine Applegate uses her magical prose skills to bring to life her animal and human characters, Ivan and Stella, Ruby, Bob, Mack and Julia. This week, students revised their skills in writing narratives from different character perspectives, in preparation for their assessment next week. Well done, Year 5!
Year 6
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Year 6 English students are continuing to read "Once" together in class, enjoying Morris Gleiztman’s superb storytelling that brings a light touch and deep humanity to his historical retelling of the Holocaust story, from the perspective of his protagonist Felix, a Polish Jewish boy in hiding from the Nazis. Students also revised their skills in writing PETAL paragraphs, in preparation for their assessment next week. To support students’ contextual understanding of this important story, we visited the Sydney Jewish Museum this week. Year 6 were lucky enough to hear the personal story of a Holocaust survivor, and to receive a social history lesson linked with their textual study; students listened respectfully and asked good questions. The guided tours around the museum afterwards gave students an age-appropriate and sensitive insight into this difficult period in human history – one that is so relevant to families in our Reddam community. Thank you to the Sydney Jewish Museum educators and staff for hosting us, and well done Year 6 for your beautiful behaviour. In Science this week, Year 5 students studied Newton's third law of motion. Students developed an understanding of what motion is, how it acts, and where we encounter it in everyday life. Students also explored a variety of contact and non-contact forces, describing how each force acts, how it is useful or a hindrance and where we encounter the forces in everyday life.
Our study of 2D shapes took a turn this week as the focus changed from polygons to circles. Year 5s reasoned that a circle cannot be classified as a polygon, they explored its different parts, and practised drawing them using a compass. They learned that circumference is the special name for the perimeter of a circle and that part of the circumference is referred to as an arc. Students measured the radii and diameters of a range of circles and wrote a variety of algebraic expressions using r for radius and d for diameter to show the relationship between the two. When constructing circles, mathematicians realised that they should accurately set the compass to the exact radius. Their highlight of the week was surely making patterns with Yearcircles.6 students continued their study of polygons, and they investigated quadrilaterals. They considered the properties of parallelograms, more specifically that in these types of quadrilaterals diagonally opposite angles are equal and adjacent angles or co-interior angles add up to 180°. Together with the fact that interior angles of quadrilaterals sum to 360 degrees, mathematicians were able to draw on more language to reason geometrically. Another topic delved into was quadrilaterals in relation to their diagonals. An interesting revelation was that in the rhombus and square the diagonals bisect the angles through which they pass. Students deduced that this would only occur when the sides of the quadrilateral are all equal length.
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Congratulations to all the students who entered their work into this year's Composition Competition - we're so overjoyed to have received over 83 pieces! We can't wait to present more information and updates in the coming weeks.
Reddam Idol Our final reminder that entries for this year's Reddam Idol Vocal Competition close today, Friday, August 12 at 5pm. To enter and read more about entry requirements, here is the entry form: https://forms.gle/sUkrutLsH7FYRqtM8
Year 5-6 Piano Duets
It was another wonderful week of school for our Year 5 and 6 Piano Duets students. The students worked on their new repertoire, preparing works of classical, jazz, and traditional music. A great deal of effort has been put into mastering listening skills. The students must learn to listen as they play to know if they need to slow down or catch up to their partner if something goes wrong mid-performance. Also, they have been practising to count-in the beats to make their duet presentation is completely synchronised. Please enjoy this video of the Piano Six-hands at once piano performance at the link below: Tindall Oakley_Noah Zusak_George Negas_Agent 00... Electronic Music Production
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Electronic Music Production (EMP) has been a fun-filled and productive ensemble. We have a lot of different styles in our class which makes for a very inspiring environment. We often showcase our students' work over the big speakers during class, and without fail the students encourage each other with compliments as well as constructive, well-intentioned critiques. The recent composition competition gave the students a focal point. Most of the EMP students submitted their music for the competition, and those who didn’t still had the benefit of working towards a deadline. Term 3 will focus on different styles of breakbeat production, as well the history of 1980s sample culture.
Friday 19/08 2:30 5.00pm– Timon, Pumbaa, Simba & Nala Script Work Adelaide Hall
Saturday 20/08 RehearsalNo Sunday 21/08 RehearsalNo
LION KING REHEARSAL SCHEDULE Date Time Who What Where
Thursday18/08 3:30 5.30pm–Rafiki, Sarabi, Sarafina, Zazu, Scar, Mufasa, Young Simba, Young Nala, African Villagers, Birds, Buzzard, Lionesses, Male Lions, Giraffes, Gazelles, Rhino, Elephant, Cheetahs, Zebras, Field Mouse, Wildebeest & Featured Ensemble Scenes 1 - 6 Adelaide Hall
The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 22 Issue Friday 12 August 2022 Page 22 In Music this week the Year 1 students sang, played and moved to a variety of Orff- and Kodally-based repertoire including ‘the counting song’, ‘Cukoo in the clock’ and ‘Snail snail’. The students also continued to develop their understanding of pitch using Solfege. After learning to sing the songs, we then learned the solfa and hand signs and practised writing the solfa pitches underneath rhythmic notation. Finally, the students got to play the songs on the xylophones which sounded great.
Tuesday16/08 3:30 5.30pm– Mufasa, Zazu, Young Simba, Young Nala, Scar, Shenzi, Banzai, Ed & all Hyenas “Be Prepared” & Scene 6 Adelaide Hall
The Year 3 to 6 students continued to revise and practise their listening skills with a focus on rhythmic and melodic dictation. It is wonderful to see the progression of the students’ aural skills across the year groups, resulting in the Year 6 students now beginning to learn about key signatures as they complete their melodic dictations in G Major.
Monday15/08 3:30 5.30pm– Rafiki, Elephant, Giraffes, Rhino, Zebras, Birds (not including Buzzard), Cheetahs, Gazelles, & Featured Ensemble “GrasslandsChant” DramaPrimaryRoom
Wednesday17/08 3:30 5.30pm–Zazu, Young Simba, Young Nala, African Villagers, Birds, Buzzard, Male Lions, Giraffes, Gazelles, Rhino, Elephant, Cheetahs, Zebras, Field Mouse, Wildebeest & Featured Ensemble “I Just Can’t Wait to be King” Adelaide Hall
MUSIC
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