Music news
WAKAKIRRI IS BACK!
Hopefully you have had your children coming home buzzing with excitement about joining our Wakakirri Team for 2021. If you have not been involved with Wakakirri before, it is an Australia-wide competition where schools tell a story through dance and drama. Coomera Rivers has previously competed in both 2018 and 2019. Please see the links below for some snippets of our previous entries.
This week in your child's Music or Drama lesson, they have watched the winning 2019 Wakakirri story and discussed whether they'd like to become involved for this year. Interested students then came to Mrs Blyth's room on Friday to collect some paperwork containing more information. If your child would like to be involved but missed the meeting, please email Mrs Blyth .
Info at a glance:
- Students from year 1-6 can participate
- Team size is maximum 120 students including backstage crew
- Our performance will be either Monday 23rd August or Tuesday 24th August at The Logan Entertainment Centre.
- Rehearsal Time- Thursdays 2:30pm-4pm beginning term 2
- Cost- Approx $60.
This year's Wakakirri participation fee has been increased to $35 per person, this fee is paid directly to Wakakirri. It has increased in 2021 to cover the COVID safe plan Click HERE for more information. There will be no concert (previously ticket cost was $36 per person) instead will be a live streaming and we will receive a digital download of the performance (so there is money saved in that area). The rest of the $60 fee will be used to cover bus and t-shirt costs.
Try outs will begin next week once signed permission forms are returned. The try out dance is the beginning of last year's Flash Mob routine. It has been posted in student's Seesaw tab 'The Arts'.
Busking at the cafe
We would love to share with you our Music groups' progress so far this year. As we have only just begun rehearsing, our performances won't be polished but we are desperate to get our performing again! It would be wonderful if you could attend.
Year 4 Music
Students in Year 4 have had a great start to the year. After just three lessons on the recorder, they are sounding very professional, playing with expressions and feeling, alongside the Tasmanian Symphonic Orchestra backing ensemble. They are also enjoying the games Chicken In A Fencepost as well as Staff Wars (this is a great app that can be purchased for an iPad for a minimal cost or downloaded onto a laptop for free).
