General News
14 December, 2022
The right notes
SENIOR Strings students visited Terang Kindergarten to play for the children as part of the school’s Instrumental Music Program.
SENIOR Strings students visited Terang Kindergarten to play for the children as part of the school’s Instrumental Music Program.
The Senior Strings students put together an interactive performance, which included having the kinder children sing and dance to Old MacDonald and the Hokey Pokey.
The kinder children had been learning about the musical instruments of the orchestra, including the ‘String Family’, prior to the Senior Strings visit.
Terang College instrumental music teacher Fiona Pugh said the children were delighted to see and hear the violins, viola and cello being played by the Terang College students.
“The Senior Strings students were thrilled to play a variety of music for the kinder children, which included fast and slow songs. It was a wonderful opportunity for each student to lead a song and show the kinder children their instruments and the interesting sounds they can make,” she said.
Terang Kindergarten teacher Sue Currell said it was “amazing to have the ‘String Family’ perform for us at the kinder”.
“For some of the children this was a new experience to see musicians playing live in front of them,” she said.
“When we asked the children what they thought about the music they said “it was very good and loud” and “I loved the sound they made, it made me feel calmer.
“I got to dance to the Hokey Pokey and sing along” and “they played Italian music and my Nona is Italian”. “We said encore, encore and they played more music!”
“To finish the session, we looked at how the students read music, and the children thought about what type of instrument they would like to learn when they go to school.”