Music

Year 7 Classroom Music – Analysis Podcasting Task

This semester, Year 7 Music students had the opportunity to use a variety of technological tools including the Digital Audio Workstation software, Bandlab, to present their analysis task information, in the format of a radio show. Students were required to select two pieces of music, one from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist or band and the other from a non-Western country outside of Australia. Students were required to listen carefully to their chosen piece, provide some contextual information, describe the elements of music and reflect on the message it contained, to support the Living Justice, Living Peace Charter, where we as a school community consider “Who needs to be clearly seen and truly listened to?”

Congratulations to all students who not only learnt and managed this new software, but also creatively presented the information with enthusiasm and passion! Please enjoy this outstanding sample of work by Summer Murphy and Zoe Salter.

Kara-Lee Rabbetts
Learning Leader: Performing Arts – Music

Dance and Drama

It has been a very exciting year in the Dance and Drama classrooms.  Students have been busy throughout the year taking many risks and working together with their peers on our challenging units of work.

Year 7 Drama

This semester, Year 7 students have been working on a Greek theatre unit. They have devised their own plays based on a Greek myth and used conventions of Greek theatre to present these stories to the class. It has been great to see the Year 7 students working so cohesively and creatively together.

Year 8 Dance

Year 8 students have been fortunate enough to have had incursions from a professional hip-hop performer and choreographer, Steph Cavanagh from ‘Street Dance’.  They have learnt some key hip-hop skills to incorporate in their own original choreography.

Year 8 Drama

Students have been devising their own plays centered around a contemporary Australian issue.

Year 9 Drama

This term, Year 9 Drama students embarked on the challenging task of putting on a play in a few short weeks. The play was a modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and the class of 26 students rose to the challenge, recently performing their play in front of a Year 7 audience.

Students learnt how to transform the words of a script into dramatic action, interpret stage directions, apply the conventions of Elizabethan Shakespearean theatre style, understand satire, develop characters and use production areas such as sound production, costumes and props to enhance their performance.

Congratulations to these committed Drama students for their successful and engaging play performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

Keryn Holden
Drama Teacher

We would also like to thank our Performing Arts Leaders for their contribution to Performing Arts life at the College. Thank you Vali D’Souza and Ande Campos (Performing Arts Leaders: Theatre) and Loghan Cross and Sienna Quill (Performing Arts Leaders: Dance).

Cara Mitchell and Nicole Everett
Learning Leaders: Performing Arts – Dance and Drama