by Kirrili WILLIAMS | May 4, 2017 | Grade 1, Music, Uncategorized
Happy Star Wars Day and May the Fourth be with you! Princess Leia (Shania in Grade 1!) used the force today to perform beat patterns while her friends sang a folk song.
by Kirrili WILLIAMS | May 4, 2017 | Dance, Music, Secondary Music
Today’s secondary assembly was a musical treat. The Girls’ Vocal Ensemble performed the Adele favourite “Someone Like You” in three parts to a spellbound audience. Hannah and Rhett in Grade 7 both also performed lovely piano solos, which were...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | May 4, 2017 | Grade 3, Grade 4, Music
After two years doing Recorder Karate, our Grade 4 students showed off their Recorder skills for an audience of parents and Grade 3. I am very proud of them and can’t wait to see where they go in Grade 5.
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Apr 12, 2017 | Grade 10, Music, Secondary Music
The time is quickly wrapping up in G10 IGCSE Music. We completed the Performing portion of the class last weekend, and the Composition portion is due this week. We are fervorously finishing the two compositions before they are sent off to Cambridge to be externally...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Apr 3, 2017 | Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music
Students in the Grade 8 Band have been working the past few weeks on using Notion to write a melody for their instrument, and then practicing transposing it to another instrument and key. Some students even went so far as to add triads underneath! Last Thursday, all...
by Kirrili WILLIAMS | Mar 30, 2017 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Music, Secondary Music
Where can four chords take us? Grades 6 and 7 spent some time making up music on the spot this week. We found a chord sequence we all enjoyed (from the song “I’m Yours”) and learnt the sequence. Along the way, we revised our knowledge of triads and...
