Instrumental Music Assembly and Singing

Hello to everyone. We are joyfully inspired to experience all the areas of our school’s musical spirit return through instrumental performances and singing. A well earned BRAVO to our IM students who performed last Friday in our first Assembly for this year. After just 2 lessons with your teachers this year, you delighted and impressed us with your musical achievements, thank you. Also, hooray, hooray, we are singing again. After a long break from singing, to keep us COVID safe, we are finding our voices in the ’great outdoors’ with all the sounds of the environment joining in! It’s great to feel connected as a community and send our voices out into the world.

It’s a ’big ask’ to invite our IM students to perform so early in the school year, but their willingness and courage show us how inspiring it is for us all when our learning is shared. All of a sudden, students who began in the IM program in 2018 are now our IM Yr 6 leaders. In their 5th year of learning, they are demonstrating what a commitment to learning an instrument can achieve.

We were delighted that parents of our performing students were our live audience and we thank them for attending. Thanks to Richard and the set up crew, the assembly was live streamed to our school community and Neighbourhoods. Our Arts and Entertainment Leaders were superb MCs, and we are also so proud of our 45 student performers. Even though there have been so few opportunities to perform over the last couple of years, they were calm and focused, and played their pieces confidently. As ever, thank you to our IM teachers, and IM families for supporting the student’s music education, and we look forward to the IM events in Term 2: ‘Fantastico, Magnifico and Eccellente’ to all.

In the Neighbourhoods, we have continued learning our songs for the Harmony Day Assembly. In the song Hello to all the Children of the World we have been finding out the different ways that people greet each in other languages. Some of these occur as lyrics to this song, but with our rich and diverse community, we are learning greetings from many countries across our world.

There was a special moment in the Yr 1s singing session today as we were learning the song Asalaam Aleikhum. This song combines this Arabic greeting of peace with a message of peace in the lyrics of the melody: May the love we share here spread its wings and fly above the earth and sing its song to every soul that is alive. After singing the melody a few times, Charlie and Lucy asked if they could sing this song as a solo to the class, and then up shot several hands wanting to do the same. Thank you Charlie and Lucy for sharing your courage to find freedom in our voices. I have loved hearing all the parts of this song coming together with confidence: thank you everyone.

Take care everyone and enjoy the start to Autumn. Cheerio Deb.