Music

Music Program

In the absence of a specialist Music teacher on staff, music lessons are now delivered by classroom teachers throughout the year. Teachers have access to a wide selection of musical instruments and resources to teach children of all levels. A typical Music program may include activities of performing and reading music, creating music, listening to, analysing and describing music, along with moving and dancing to music. Musical examples are of a wide variety of styles and range from baroque to modern. The use of several Higher Order Thinking (HOT) strategies is encouraged and these may be used in a range of ways, including the Thinker’s Keys, the 6 Thinking Hats and graphic organisers.

The Music Room is fitted with three computers and students from Year 1 to 6 are given the opportunity to create musical compositions on the computer using the program, Super Dooper Music Looper. This program allows students to choose from hundreds of different musical instruments and sounds, and they are even able to record their own sounds, giving them the option to record lyrics and make a song.

Choir at Larapinta School

Two choirs are run at Larapinta, a Junior Choir for Years 3 and 4 students, and a Senior Choir for Years 5 and 6 students. It is a voluntary activity and students have to make a commitment to attend all rehearsals. In past years the Senior and Junior Choirs have competed at the Centralian Eisteddfod, the Combined School Choir at Araluen and recorded a Christmas Carol for Imparja Television. Both choirs performed numerous times at school assemblies and at the end of year concert.

Instrumental Program

The NT Music School provides opportunities for Year 5 and 6 students to learn to play a variety of musical instruments at school. A teacher from the Music School attends Larapinta one day per week and instructs students both individually and in small groups. There is an instrument lease program which allows students to learn to play instruments without having to purchase outright. The NT Music students also are instructed and perform in a school band which performs at school assemblies and concerts and participates with other schools in the Combined School Bands Concert at Araluen Theatre each year.

Crocfest

Larapinta's Junior Choir was part of Crocfest which attracted almost two thousand students from fifty communities around Central Australia for three days of activities and performances.

Larapinta Primary School, 2008