Music Specialist:        Victoria Robinson
Areas of Teaching:    20 classes:   preprimary - year seven
                                    School Choir
                                    Training  Choir
                                    Band

TIME ALLOCATION 
Students from years one to four have music twice a week for forty minutes. This may vary according to the timetable. Other classes have music once a week for a minimum of 35 minutes whilst others up to sixty minutes. Again, depending on the timetable.

The Choirs rehearse once a week for sixty minutes during school time. Additionally, the School Choir may rehearse during one lunchtime depending on performance commitments.

The Band rehearses one lunchtime a week.

RATIONALE: Music is part of the total education of children.  As one of the arts, music contributes to aesthetic development and creative  thinking in addition to its demand for intellectual rigour and  interpersonal interaction in a variety of skill areas. 

The music program will aim to assist students to develop: 

   1.  An aesthetic response to music. 
   2. Competence as a listener, performer and composer. 
   3. An understanding of the place of music in human 
       experience, past and present. 
   4. The desire and ability for  continued musical activity 
       and growth. 
   5. An appreciation of the wide variety of styles of music. 

GUIDELINES: 
1. The classroom music programme is the core of all 
    music activities in the school and must be given prime 
    consideration.  It will be structured sequentially and 
    developmentally. 
2. The classroom teacher and the music specialist will work 
    together to ensure the satisfactory development of the 
    music programme and its integration into the total 
    education programme. 
3. Choral, instrumental ensembles and other extension 
    activities are provided where appropriate, and where 
    time permits, to the classroom programme and not a 
    substitute for it. 
4. Where possible/appropriate music is to be integrated 
    into other subject areas. 
5. To provide regular classroom and music time practice 
    of whole school songs to be performed at assemblies. 

CONCLUSION: Music is an important part of the whole school curriculum, as 
it  offers opportunities for aesthetic, intellectual and social development. 
Music provides important skill development in listening, auditory memory and mathematical concepts etc. and a variety  of other areas in an enjoyable way and therefore should be an important part of normal classroom activities as well as  specialist activities. 

Years 1 - 3
Knowledge and Understanding
Skill Development
Participation
Personal Effort

Years 4 - 7
Creating and Developing Ideas
Skill Development
Response to and understanding of music in society
Participation
Personal Effort