Performing Arts

Each week, students participate in a 50-minute Performing Arts session.

Music

The program is sequential and developmentally structured, allowing students to engage with Performing Arts through creating, composing, exploring, responding to, and critiquing music.

In Foundation, students build a strong foundation by exploring key elements such as beat, rhythm, pitch, dynamics, and tempo. Students learn to sing an extensive repertoire of songs and play both tuned and untuned instruments.

In Years 1 and 2, students are introduced to reading different music notation and applying this knowledge to play instruments such as xylophones, Boomwhackers, chorus bells, and tone blocks.

In Years 3 and 4 students develop their music-reading skills and learn to play the recorder.

In Years 5 and 6, students learn chords on the ukulele.

Across the school all students learn singing, composing, performing and critical reflection, as well as explore a variety of instruments and begin expressing ideas, emotions and experiences through the Performing Arts.

In all year levels, students integrate technology into their learning. They explore music reading and composition using tools such as Soundbops, Osmo, Dash and Dot, and Makey Makey.

Students learn Dance through the elements of body, action, space, time and energy, and respond to a range of musical styles and genres while developing spatial awareness and learning both popular and traditional dances.

The Drama program fosters confidence, creativity, teamwork and performance skills. Students engage in improvisation, script work, character development and stagecraft. They also use technology to create short films while developing their acting skills. They work both independently and collaboratively through drama games, group activities and scripted performances.

Choir
Students in Years 1–2 and Years 3–6 have the opportunity to join the School Choir. The choir performs at a variety of events and venues, including school assemblies as well as other special occasions throughout the year.

Instrumental Music Tuition
Several optional, user pays, private music tuition lessons are available during school hours. Instruments available include piano/keyboard, drums, guitar, violin, woodwind and recorder. Students showcase their progress in an end-of-year concert.

Productions
The school performs productions every two years.

They play a vital role in developing collaboration, confidence and resilience, as students move through the rehearsal and performance process- auditions, learning lines, songs and choreography, all while contributing to a collective outcome.

Productions span across all year levels, ensuring every student has the opportunity to perform. Past productions have included Aladdin Jr., Beauty and the Beast Jr., Moana Jr., The Little Mermaid Jr., Freddie the Frog and the Giant Metronome, Tooth the Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth, Animal Tales, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Are We There Yet? and The Bee Musical.

Welcome Dance
Each year in Term 1, students participate in the Welcome Dance with a different theme selected annually. Past themes have included Australian Bush Dance, Rock ’n’ Roll, the 1980s, Battle of the Bands, Disney, Anthems, and Broadway. This event brings the school community together for a fun and engaging afternoon or evening of dance.

Foo Foo Concert
The Foo Foo Concert is a long-standing tradition at the school, dating back to the 1980s. Originally created as a fundraiser to repair the school’s giraffe mascot, Foo Foo, it has evolved into an annual talent showcase held in the final week of the school year.

House Music Showtime
Students in Years 3–6 participate in House Music Showtime - a student-led program where they select songs, choreograph dances or lead choir or instrumental performances. This friendly competition between school houses fosters leadership, creativity and teamwork, with the winning House awarded a shield.

Year 5 & 6 production of Alladin jnr

YEAR 2 Winnie the Pooh Kids

welcome dance