St. Therese’s School offers an enriching music program from Prep to Year Six. Orff and Kodaly methodologies are taught throughout each year level where each student is able to create, compose and perform, promoting an all-inclusive approach to music making.
In Prep, Year One and Year Two, emphasis is on developing a repertoire of songs specifically chosen to encourage tuneful and accurate pitch and singing techniques. The playing of percussive instruments along with singing and creative movement encourages spatial and body awareness as students move and play to the beat of the music.
Students in Year Three and Year Four explore the elements of music as they improvise, arrange, compose and accurately perform music using body percussion and a variety of tuned and untuned instruments. They formulate responses to music, exploring various purposes and intentions for music in their own and other cultures. During these years, students are introduced to woodwind and string instruments through our recorder and ukulele programs.
Year Five and Six students can aurally recognise and describe musical features of works, discussing and comparing the musical elements of a variety of works from their own and other cultures and times. They use instruments and technology to create and perform their own original compositions, and compare and analyse the works of others. Year Six students learn ensemble and musicianship skills in addition to more complex rhythmic patterns in our African drumming program.
Through singing, creative movement and the development of skills on a range of instruments, students are offered exciting opportunities to embark on their own creative journey and expand their musical horizons.
St Therese’s also facilitates a private music lesson program for students who interested in further developing their instrumental skills in a small group lesson environment.