Music
Music Forms and Events can be found on Redlands Pulse
Music Festivals 2020
The Music Department is sad to inform our community that the Redlands Junior and Senior Music Festivals, and the annual HICES Music Festival have been cancelled for 2020. We understand that this decision will have an impact on our Redlands Music community, particularly our musicians, who enjoy sharing their musical talents with family and friends. However, the government directive to restrict public gatherings has mandated these cancellations. As a department, we remain committed to both enriching the life of students and the wider Music community by working towards some possible presentation opportunities in Term 3, in providing students with performance goals as they continue to work on their repertoire, build technical skills and continue exploring their love of music making.
Remote Music Learning Term 2
Over the coming fortnight, Music teachers and tutors look forward to engaging with the students in both On-Campus Learning and Remote Learning Platforms. Over the past month, the department, has committed itself to ensuring that we continue to provide our students with instructional materials in all areas of Music. In focusing on delivering remote online platforms, we have been working in association with our exceptional Music specialists to develop and administer a range of innovative learning resources to support student learning and music making across the Academic, Cocurricular and Extra Subjects Music programs.
Music Program Offerings – Weeks 3 and 4
Academic Music
We look forward to welcoming students back into the classroom over the coming fortnight with the school’s gradual reintroduction to On-Campus Learning. In ensuring the safety and wellbeing of students and staff, access to Private Music Tuition rooms will be limited at this time. The only exception to this arrangement applies to the Yr 12 Higher School Certificate and International Baccalaureate courses of study, as we support these students in their final preparatory stages for all major practical works.
Cocurricular Music Ensembles
Junior School and Secondary Music Ensembles will continue to be delivered through online platforms in providing students with learning resources to work independently at home. This includes Google Classroom (Yrs 3-6) and iLearn (Yrs 7-12). Please note, Preparatory Choir and Preparatory Strings will not be running at this stage.
Extra-Subjects Music (Individual Tuition and Groups)
From the start of this term, the department reintroduced all Individual Music Tuition and Group classes across the School. While these sessions will continue to be delivered by Music tutors remotely via Zoom, at this stage we are unable to provide On-Campus tuition. Music tutors will be ensuring that students are provided with instruction on alternate days, in consideration of their Academic classes during scheduled On-Campus Learning days. Revised Music tuition schedules for Weeks 3 and 4 will be issued by Music tutors prior to the commencement of next week.
Thank You to Redlands ICT
The Music Department would like to acknowledge the Redlands ICT Department for collaboratively working with Music staff in preparing, facilitating and supporting virtual learning environments for our students. In particular we would like to thank Mrs Wendy Duckworth (e-Learning Coordinator 7-12), Shireen Winrow (e-Learning Coordinator P-6) and Argiro Anagnostu (e-Learning Facilitator P-6) and all other members of their teams.
Mr Darren Kuilenburg
Coordinator of Music
seniormusic@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9820