issue no. 130, august 2010 kodÁly news queensland · of kindergartens will increase and the...

KODÁLY NEWSQueensland

Issue No. 130, August 2010

In this issue...

President’s report ................................... 1

KMEIA Western Australia .................... 2

National do-re-mi report .................... 3

Recent EventsEarly Childhood Conference .............. 4Open Classrooms ................................. 5

Chapter News ................................... 6-7

Talking Technology Workshop ............ 8

Early Childhood Accreditation ........... 9

KMEIA 2010 National Conference 10

ASME Conference 2011 ................... 11

KMEIA Qld Visit UQ ........................... 11

Greetings from Qatar ........................ 12

KMEIA Qld AGM Nomination form 13

Calendar of Events ............................ 14

KMEIA News Guidelines .................. 15

KMEIA Qld IncPO Box 372Kelvin Grove BC QLD 4059

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Recently I returned from the ISME Conference in Beijing. It was one of the largest conferences I have ever attended with over 3000 delegates infiltrating the China National Convention Centre for five days of discussion, music making and networking.

I was fortunate to be part of a team who presented a symposium on the development of musical thinking across the learning spectrum. Rachael Dwyer, Liz Thomas (now in Qatar) and Réka Csernyik also presented as part of this symposium. It was wonderful to see how despite our different educational contexts our interpretation and in turn practice of the development of musical thinking was clearly connected and ingrained through our shared philosophical understandings. Past KMEIA Queensland President Maree Hennessy also flew the KMEIA flag for us through presenting a paper and workshop that was extremely well received.

As practitioners presenting at the conference, we all reflected on how difficult it is to find the time to actually draft and work on papers to present at an academic level. We also reflected on the position of action research like ours within the academic world. As Tim Cain (2010) points out in his article Music teachers’ action research and the development of Big K knowledge, action research is acknowledged to have benefits in improving practice, but


within mainstream education research it does not share the same sense of value. If you have an interest in this I urge you to have a read of his article. I believe it is important for us as practitioners to reflect on and document our practice in the written form and share this in wider educational fields. With more teachers being encouraged to do so, possibly more value will be placed on such studies from practicing educators, thus informing practice. We all agreed though the process of analysing and in turn articulating clearly what we do in the classroom to develop musical thinking was highly beneficial to our own practice, and if we had more time would possibly do it more often. I encourage many of you to consider sharing your ideas on a particular perspective through writing a paper for the IKS symposium in Korea next year.

Many of us will soon be heading down for the Music Matters – KMEIA National Conference in Melbourne this September. We wish our friends in Victoria all the very best with the busy preparations and look forward to their hospitality this September.

All the best for the rest of term 3,

Best wishes,

Dan CrumpKMEIA Queensland President

From the President...

We want to hear from you!

Have you been up to something interesting? In your classroom, studio or rehearsal? Keen to contribute to your professional

association? Let us know! We’re always looking for helping hands of one sort or another – including writing articles for our newsletter.

Get in touch by emailing newsletter co-ordinators Sarah McGarry [email protected] or Stacey Pye [email protected]

Deadline for the next edition: October 10, 2010


KMEIA Western Australia

PresidentDaniel Crump

[email protected]

Vice PresidentSarah McGarry

[email protected]

SecretaryAnn Slade

[email protected]@clayfield.qld.edu.au

TreasurerDeb Brydon

[email protected](07) 3879 0685

Committee Members

Annette Enchelmaieraenchelmaier@faithlutheran.

qld.edu.au

Maria [email protected]

Stacey [email protected]

Kate [email protected]

Congratulations to the newly formed KMEIA WA Branch. It is very exciting news that we now have KMEIA spread right across Australia, giving our members more choice and accessibility to training and workshops.

You are invited to attend the first event of the newly formed KMEIA WA Branch – The Spring Symposium.

The Spring Symposium offers participants some exciting new professional learning opportunities in the areas of Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary music education.

Date: 6 October, 2010 - 7 October, 2010 Presenter/s: Wendy-Cara Dugmore, Philippa Tan, Celia Christmass, Beryl Allen & more

Venue: School of Instrumental Music (SIM) 150 Guildford Road, Maylands

Stock CoordinatorKerryn Vezos

[email protected]

National do-re-mi CoordinatorGail Godfrey

[email protected](07) 3801 1154

Queensland do-re-mi contactKathryn Yarrow

[email protected]

Qld National Council MembersGail Godfrey

[email protected]

Tess [email protected]

Jill [email protected]

KMEIA MEMBERSHIPEthne Brennan

[email protected]

KMEIA Queensland Committee 2010

(Old Maylands Primary School)

Cost: Members:$200 Non-members: $260

The Spring Symposium offers participants music experiences specific to their interest; - Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary. Sessions will include choir, vocal warm up exercises, musicianship, choral conducting and technology within a Kodály context and much more. Core topic areas will be repeated to enable attendees the opportunity to attend areas of interest.

The WA Kodaly Music Education Spring Symposium, 2010, will be a taster into the teaching and learning tools participants can take and use in their classroom. This conference will be an excellent opportunity to meet and network with like minded teachers.

Contact InformationEnquiries and registrations should be sent to Wendy-Cara Dugmore or Jason Boron. [email protected] [email protected]

Register online at www.kodaly.org.au

of kindergartens will increase and the quality of music teaching in them will improve. The kindergarten child is responsive to beauty and avid for knowledge.. It is the kindergarten teacher who takes the child’s hand and helps him in his first steps on the road leading to culture.” I believe Katalin is correct. Once the responsibility of raising children is moved away from family, it is only natural that childcare/ preschool centre standards must be raised and the dynamics of a normal school class room will change.

do-re-mi through the Kodály Music Education Institute, is currently discussing an invitation from Early Childhood Australia Inc. to form a partnership. Discussion is in its infant stages however this could be a promising opportunity for us to collaborate with a national early childhood organisation.

do-re-mi is now in a situation where Centres are requesting our services. These owners are aware of the Kodály approach to teaching children and we must not let the opportunity slip. It will mean that teachers who rise to embrace this invitation to work in Centres will spread the Kodaly philosophy in the most powerful way possible, to the teachers, through the masses of children and to their families.

I take this opportunity to thank all do-re-mi teachers for seeding the gift of music into the lives of so many children. Sincere thanks to the do-re-mi Queensland Co-ordinators, David O’Keefe, Kathryn Yarrow, Bernadette Barr, Caryn Eastman and to David Hawkins in NSW for their dedication and consistent efforts in lifting the profile of do-re-mi.

Gail Godfrey


From the National do-re-mi Coordinator

do-re-mi teachers continue to provide quality music lessons for children and families. Over the past two years Childcare/Kindergarten/Preschool Centres have expressed interest in knowing more about music education for their young charges. Even though classes have operated in various childcare/preschool centres around Brisbane for 20 years, there has been an increased interest from Centre owners. Two women in particular, own eight centres and were particularly keen for a Kodaly program to be implemented within their Centres, every week for every child. This year in excess of 30 staff, untrained in music, have participated in a preliminary introduction to early childhood pedagogy using singing games and rhymes, basic musicianship, folk dance and art music. Ideally the course is for 12 hours, two hours per week for six weeks. Some Centres choose four weeks at three hours each. This flexibility allows a larger window of opportunity for staff to attend.

What has lead to this increased interest is possibly the science of brain development in children and the introduction of the National Government document the Early Years Learning Framework which includes three interwoven concepts of Belonging, Being and Becoming. A sense of belonging is about ‘feeling that you are a part of a group, a family—a feeling that you are connected and have a meaningful relationship with others’. A sense of being is about the present. ‘It is about living, and how we experience the ‘now’. For children, it is about knowing that other children and the adults they come in contact with care about them’. A sense of becoming ‘refers to change—experiencing being in a different place or space’.

The area of ‘Practice’ in the EYLF encompasses two ideas:- Holistic approaches and - Learning environments. As practitioners we understand that a Kodaly philosophy meshes beautifully with various philosophies used in early childhood centres.

Through rhymes, songs, singing games, folk dances and art music two things occur:- 1) we discover the music elements of beat, pitch, timbre, dynamics and form 2) we develop the whole person in mind, body and spirit

Music allows for opportunities to be connected in all developmental areas of childhood.Johann Pestalozzi and Friedrich Froebel, educational philosophers of the 18th century, stressed the value in music education. Like Kodaly and others, they believed that music helped “harmonise” the character and nurtured the child to realise its full potential. Froebel was founder of the kindergarten system believed the ideal teacher of young children is like ‘a mother made conscious’. The introduction to what we know as `child-centred’ education is said to have its origins in the educational philosophy of Froebel. ‘Child centred’ includes the education of the integral whole child, awakening and nurturing children’s interests.

Katalin Forrai said that “Society expects more and more of the kindergarten. […] It is to be hoped that in the future the number

Gail Godfrey

National Positions Available – Call for expressions of interest

Ever thought about contributing to KMEIA on a national level? Please take some time to read about the following positions and contact Gail Godfrey (details below) for further information.

National Minute SecretaryThis person would be required to take the Minutes of four National Council meetings per year, disseminate the Minutes within two weeks of the Meeting and keep appropriate records.

National do-re-mi Co-ordinatorThis person would be a fully affiliated do-re-mi teacher with a minimum of five years experience from either QLD or NSW. There is an expectation to attend or write a report for four National Council meetings per year. The role is to link current do-re-mi teachers in NSW and QLD, liaise with do-re-mi co-ordinators in Qld/ NSW and to promote the organisation in other states and continue connections with our do-re-mi teachers in Asia.

Requests for further information can be directed to Gail Godfrey [email protected]


Recent Events Early Childhood ConferenceThe KMEIA Early Childhood Conference held on July 9th and 10th, 2010 at New Farm was a well organised and very well attended event. All of the presenters were very professional and well informed. Debbie Wilson presented a session on music throughout the day in Prep and shared ways that she incorporates music into her Prep classroom everyday and the benefits to the children. Kate Thompson and Tina Wurth delivered useful information for both early childhood music teachers and early childhood classroom teachers about developmental milestones in Early Childhood and the implications for teachers. Julie Logan’s presentations on supporting students with additional needs and making repetition work in the classroom were very interesting. Julie Logan gave conference attendees ways to use the same repertoire in different ways. The sample bag session was a roaring success and the most popular session of the weekend. Kath Lloyd brought along one of her do re mi classes and allowed the participants to see a lesson in real time with real children and with real resources.

The sharing session on Saturday afternoon, was a fantastic way to finish the conference and it was lovely to see teachers sharing ideas and activities that they have tried and tested in their own classrooms. The catering was creative and the chocolate fondue for dessert on Saturday was a great way to finish up the conference. Overall, the Early Childhood Conference was a huge success with all participants sharing positive feedback of all aspects of the conference. All KMEIA Committee members are to be congratulated on yet another wonderful Early Childhood Conference and we all look forward to seeing you there next year!

Feedback from the participants

As a pre-service teacher, it was very inspiring to be with such a passionate, professional and fun-loving group of teachers and educators. I now look forward to a creative teaching career. Thank you so much!

Will be back for the next one!

Found lots of new ideas in each session.

Kath’s session was magic!

The musianship classes in the morning were worthwhile. They were scary but it was great to continue refreshing my skills.

I loved the sessions during this conference. There was useful and relevant information in each one, and the examples of how to use repertoire and materials was invaluable.

As a Prep teacher myself I found Debbie Wilson’s session particularly relevant. I would love to hear more about how she integrates music throughout the Prep curriculm. I’m sure there could be more to learn from her experience as both a Music teacher and a Prep teacher. I also found Kath’s session with the children very useful.There is nothing better than seeing the real thing in action.


Recent Events Open ClassroomsOpen Classroom with Debbie O’Shea at Eatons Hill State School

When our children perform for the school community we have the opportunity to show others something of what we do in our classroom and choral programmes. As Music teachers we know the vital role our classroom programmes play in the development of such events. Our 30 minute lessons provide the foundation on which other music experiences are built. The classroom programme allows every child in our school community access to music and the experience of music-making. We know this is a right, not a privilege.

Interestingly, despite the importance of the classroom programme, we rarely have the opportunity to observe our colleagues at work in the role of ‘classroom teacher’. I applaud KMEIA for encouraging teachers to open the doors of their Music rooms and especially commend the teachers willing to be part of this programme. How lucky we are!

Those of you who have met Debbie O’Shea in your musical travels would know something of her great generosity as a colleague. It was no surprise to me to learn that on Tuesday July 27, she was opening the doors of her Music classroom at Eatons Hill State School.

The first session saw Deb’s Year 1 class arrive on the doorstep of her lovely, bright classroom. Deb’s enthusiasm for her subject area was evident in the children. They bounced in, all smiles, and began to sing straight away. We observed Deb take the children through vocal warm-ups, comparative tasks, inner-hearing, s-m preparation using the chime bars, the introduction of a new song/game, beat and rhythm tasks, a folk dance and a humorous listening song with a picture book.

Music teachers are often very gifted in effectively using a 30 minute time-slot, and Deb’s lesson was no exception. Deb’s lesson showed thorough planning and she obviously had the confidence and experience to ‘go with the children’ and alter the plan when needed. It was clear to see that Deb was ‘teaching the children’ not just ‘teaching the curriculum’, something which challenges many of us due to the small amount of time we have with the children each week. Deb even welcomed some toddler siblings to the group, which was lovely for those families attending the afternoon.

The second group of children was drawn from Deb’s Year 7 classes. It was very evident, that like the younger children, these students were equally enthusiastic about their music. Right from the start they joined in with the singing; it was clear that this was an expectation that was supported by Deb’s warm and relaxed manner. We travelled with Deb’s class through rhythmic (listening and written tasks) and melodic work (pentatonic scale, aural identification, letter names, playing on chime bars and Boomwhackers) as well as an

enjoyable game of “A qua qua”. Deb’s school has embraced the national “Count us in” project (which seeks to promote the joy and benefits of music-making in our schools), so the children relaxed at the end of their lesson by singing the pop song which is featured in the project.

As with the other Open Classrooms, Maree Hennessy facilitated a most insightful discussion. Topics such as open/closed questioning, managing writing tasks in the music classroom, starting with older beginners, managing group tasks in the upper school, written work in the Music class, choosing the ‘best’ singing games for the upper school, personal professional goal-setting, planning for and managing assessment, establishing a ‘singing’ culture in your school and aligning philosophy when more than one teacher works at a school, were all covered. I’m sure we could have talked for hours!

Special thanks to Deb for her continued generosity. On a personal level, I have gained so many little tips from observing my colleagues working with their children. There are challenges and affirmations in every session I have been lucky enough to attend.

Celia DoddsKMEIA MemberPrep – Year 2 Music Teacher, St Columba’s Wilston


Chapter News Townsville What a Titanic weekend we welcomed David Lawrence to Townsville on August 13th – 15th, thankfully only in the size of the music making.

Friday night opened with David leading the North Queensland Recorder society. Eleven of us took part in a variety of music making including improvising verses of Scarborough Fair to a performance of a movement from Vivaldi’s Gloria soloed by David and Wade Tatttersall.

Saturday was a special day for the music teachers where we ‘warmed-up’, improvised, played singing games, met new repertoire, conducted, wasted time with each other over meal breaks and generally were rewarded for having spent a Saturday at school. The Keyboard Shop provided a trade display of great choral material which David used frequently.

Our second Boys to Men was held on Saturday night, beginning with pizza. What a joy to have the room reverberate with the sound that was produced by these tenors and basses.

Sunday was named Come and Sing with David. It was like a mini Spirit of the Voice. This was attended not only by the teachers but by community choir members and others who just love an opportunity to sing. In the day we covered 6 works including working in groups to create our vocal improvisations of Scarborough Fair. At four o’clock we presented the results of our music making in the Church to a small audience of friends and family. The recorder players returned and as well as the Vivaldi we joined together in a truly ‘never heard before’ performance of Scarborough Fair including, after hearing each improvisation separately, a Quodlibet of all simultaneously!!!

Each time David Lawrence comes to Townsville we grow a little more as music teachers, conductors, singers and lovers of music. The common denominator is always JOY!

Valerie Huston (Chair KMEIA Townsville)

The Townsville KMEIA ‘Crew’ Back - Kerry Rehn, Sue Laing, Fiona Burnett, Patricia ReynoldsMiddle - Kathleen Pomeroy, Heather Orr, Maureen Crimeen, Elinor MurrayFront - Captain David Lawrence, Valerie Huston (shore leave Malcolm Cook)


Mackay Chapter NewsMackay Winter School in the Rainforest

After many years running successful Winter Schools in Mackay at our wonderful venue Fitzgerald State School, the local Winter School Committee took the adventurous leap of planning a live in Winter School in the verdant Eungella Rainforest an hour’s drive west of Mackay.

We not only wanted to show off the natural beauties of our region but we wanted a venue far enough away from home so that our zealous committee members wouldn’t be able to go home each night to cook a meal for the family, throw on a load a washing, run the lawn mower over the yard etc etc etc while our out of town participants networked into the night away from the distractions of home.

It was a successful idea! Our participants arrived from all parts of Queensland in the early hours of Sunday 27th June breathing mist into the crisp morning air and went straight into an entertaining opening address from Aleta King.

A delicious morning tea of home cooked slices and fruit platters lovingly prepared by our committee members gave all participants the strength to head into musicianship ably led by Aleta, Jen Teh and our own local talent, Linda Miller.

The dynamic Jen took over with the first of her three methodology sessions which covered Early Childhood, Middle School and older beginner. After much singing, playing of games and returning to our second childhood some of us didn’t have far to go), we were ready for a delicious lunch prepared by the Broken River Mountain Resort Chef.

We returned refreshed and invigorated to attend our first Choral session which was conducted by Aleta. Our soaring voices must have charmed the local platypus community to the surface of Broken River because in our late afternoon free time there were many platypus sightings. (Some of the local have been coming to Eungella for years without once seeing a platypus and suddenly they were everywhere!!! When we were platypussed out, we had the opportunity to have a browse through the wonderful trade display from Sound Thinking Australia lovingly put together by Michael Muller!

Our wonderful committee put on a magnificent curry dinner complete with homemade mango chutney from our very own mango trees!!! – What else would you expect from the Tropics? We then attended an electrifying African drumming workshop with Sam and Nii Armah from Baala Baajo – not sure how the platypus felt about this

session but we thought it was great!

It was time for a night cap and a recap in front of the pot bellied stoves in our snug Broken River Units before retiring to recuperate. We knew what was ahead of us in the next two days.

Our three days of professional development flew in a whirlwind of drumming, Afro-American and Caribbean songs, inspiring and practical classroom teaching ideas and challenging musicianship sessions. The broken River chef excelled himself with our Conference Dinner and was duly rewarded in song by the Winter School participants. As if we hadn’t had enough singing, we stayed on in the restaurant for some more singing with Aleta leading from the keyboard.

Taking our Winter School out of Mackay was certainly a challenge and required much hard work from all members of our wonderful KMEIA Chapter but we believe it was a great success and it did give our local Music Teachers’ the opportunity to network in a lovely environment away from the challenges of home.

Kathryn Woodruff


REGISTRATION FORM/TAX INVOICE KMEIA Inc (QLD Branch) ABN: 91 391 292 631

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Talking TechnologyWorkshop

KMEIA Queensland Presents

10 - 4pm, Saturday 16th October, 2010

Enjoy a day workshop with Information Technology guru Danny MacKenzie.Program highlights will include:• ICT Integration from the ground up• Devices, IWB’s, and Web 2.0 tools• Get it online: Blogs and wikis• Create and Carry - recording digital products (audio and video files)• Create and Carry - publishing, collaborating and assessing

Early Childhood to secondary teachers will find this workshop beneficial!

Venue: Prep CentreAnglican Church Grammar SchoolEast BrisbaneParking: Limited on site parking and plenty of off street parking availableMore information: [email protected]

Full certificate of attendance to meet the Queensland College of Teachers Professional Standards also provided on completion of the day.

Danny MacKenzie is ICT specialist at Trinity Lutheran College on the Gold Coast. He has been a teacher for 11 years, mainly in the classroom, but before teaching studied graphic design and worked as a commercial artist and cartoonist. His wife, Nadia MacKenzie is the director of Music at Trinity Lutheran College and together have two children aged 6 and 3. Danny has a special interest in ICT integration, Web 2.0 technologies and when not working or reading about ICT he enjoys surfing, boating and fishing.


Early Childhood Certificate

CERTIFICATE IN KODALY MUSIC

LEVEL 1 – EARLY CHILDHOOD 0 to 3 years.

Enrolment is now being accepted to the above course to be held at

Clayfield College, Gregory Street, Clayfield on the following dates. 21 & 22nd August, 4 & 5th September, 2nd and 3rd October, 30th and

31st October and 20th and 21st November, 2010.

Lectures will be held each day from 9 am to 4 pm in the following areas: Musicianship, Methodology of Teaching, Cultural

Materials/Practicum, Choral Experience and Individual Study.

The lecturer for this course is Judith Johnson.

Successful completion of Level 1 allows participants to apply for provisional registration in the do-re-mi network.

Registration will be completed on 21st August on the first day of the

course. Please email [email protected] if you wish to be included in this course.

Texts for this course will be: Music, the Young Child and You by

Doreen Bridges, Tickle Me, by Judith Johnson, and 150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching by E.Bolkovac and J.Johnson. These texts

are available on line from soundthinkingaustralia.com

This course may be paid in the following ways:

• Full cost payable on the first day: $840.00 • 5 instalments payable at each week end: $170.00

Payment may be made by: cash, cheque, money order or by direct

debit to: Clayfield School of Music, BSB 014 255, Account Number: 5546 11815 – please email to the above address if payment is made.

CLAYFIELD SCHOOL OF MUSIC 64 Caribou Crescent

Fitzgiggon Tel/Fax 07 3865 8287

Email [email protected] ABN 42 594 797 329

KMEIA National Conference 2010 Music Matters


Melbourne, 26-29 Sep, 2010Caulfield Grammar School, East St. Kilda

Featuring outstanding international presenters:

• Fernando Malvar-Ruiz (USA)Choral specialist and director of the American Boychoir

• Géza Szilvay (Finland)Acclaimed string pedagogue. Author of the Colour Strings method

National Conference for Music Educators

Empowering teachers, engaging learners www.kodaly.org.au

NATIONAL CONFERENCE UPDATE

We are now counting down to the 2010 National Kodaly Conference, Music Matters, from 26 - 29 September at Caulfield Grammar School, Caulfield Campus in Melbourne.

Our four keynote speakers from overseas and interstate are Fernando Malvar-Ruiz (USA), Géza Szilvay (Finland), Harley Mead (Qld) and Maree Hennessy (Qld). We have about 30 presenters running workshops throughout the conference. Each day we will run Methodology, Musicianship and Elective workshops. The timetable highlights streams of early childhood, primary, secondary, choral, general and strings so you can choose to follow one stream or do a mix of two or more, details are now on the web.

For more information & to register phone 03 9535 7035 or

email [email protected] or visit www.kodaly.org.au

MORE ON MUSIC MATTERS:

Here is what to expect at the conference:

• Daily sessions for teachers of early childhood, primary and secondary ages demonstrating techniques, resources and providing inspiration.• See an approach developed over the last 30 years by Australian teachers for Australian children. Observe instrumental rehearsals with both primary and secondary students with the opportunity for your students to work with Géza Szilvay.• Rehearsal techniques, repertoire and strategies for leaders of school and community choirs.• Performances by a selection of outstanding choirs, including the Biralee Blokes, Exaudi Youth Choir. A series of concerts to inspire and refresh.• Choose from a variety of interest sessions and topics.• Work at your own level with our master teachers to improve your aural awareness and sight singing.• A special focus on string teaching and instrumental pedagogy with the author of the highly acclaimed Colour Strings method, Géza Szilvay.

ASME Conference 2011 Making Sound Waves


Authors are invited to submit for:Refereed spoken papers (30 minutes including question time) Non-refereed spoken papers (30 minutes including question time) Panel Discussions Workshops (60 minutes) which should be interactive sessions and authors should specify in their abstract proposal how this aim is achieved.

Paper abstracts, panel and workshop proposals: 250 words.Full papers: 250 word abstract + paper 2000-3000 maximum word length.

All paper abstracts, panel and workshop proposals are to be submitted electronically via the conference website. This upload facility will be available soon.Important datesSubmission of paper abstracts, panel, and workshop proposals: 1 December 2010Notification of acceptance/rejection: 10 January 2010Submission of final papers: 1 March 2011Submission proceduresStyle templates: Please submit your paper as a WORD or PDF file. Submit your paper online.

For any further information/question/comment/suggestion, please send a message to the local organizing committee.

ASME Conference Co-ConvenorAndrew Reidp | +61 7 38640291e | [email protected]

Janette Kellyp | +61 7 55777256e | [email protected]

Call for Papers

On behalf of the ASME Queensland organising committee, we invite you to be part of the XVIII ASME National Conference Making Sound Waves: Diversity, Unity, Equity.

Making Sound Waves is a theme with many layers. It not only reflects the land and seascape of the local environment, but a contemporary approach to musical experience and learning. In an era of technological revolution, the conference theme challenges our profession to ask how music education is to respond thoughtfully and responsibly, and ensure that all the diverse voices are heard. Never before have there been so many opportunities for young musicians – how can we ensure equal access to quality for all?

We welcome presentations on making sound waves in:Early Childhood • Primary Classrooms • Secondary Classrooms • Tertiary Contexts • Research • Music Studios • Instrumental Ensembles • Choirs • Relation to Technology • Relation to Community Music • Other Arts Forms •

and in relation to Diversity, Unity, Equity in Curricula

You are invited to submit abstracts/papers and panel and workshop proposals for presentation at the Conference. All abstracts, proposals and papers will be peer reviewed anonymously in order to meet DEEWR refereed publication requirements. All abstracts, proposals and papers will be published in the proceedings.

KMEIA Queensland Visit UQOn Monday 28th June Maria Natoli and I presented at the University of Queensland’s career enhancement day. These valuable session allow students in their final year of tertiary education/music studies to familiarize themselves with organizations and networks that will provide them ongoing support and professional development opportunities once they go out into the work force. KMEIA was fortunate to be able to have a presence at this event alongside Musica Viva, QOSA, ASME and the QSA. Students were treated to music making through singing canons, learning the clapping game “The Mexican Woodpecker”. They also danced “The Seven Steps” during a presentation which they were introduced to the philosophy and vision of KMEIA and the many events, professional development opportunities and publications that KMEIA Queensland had to offer at both a Metropolitan and Regional level. Screen captures were used to inform the students of our presence on the web. We were also mindful to inform the student’s present of KMEIA’s role in a global organization and the high regard Music educators in Queensland are held in the International arena. Each student received a folder full of advertising for KMEIA ventures, a “Hottest 100” repertoire list for core concepts; a copy of the song and game material used in the presentation and the all important KMEIA pencil. We thank the University of Queensland for the chance to be involved in this important initiative. Ann Slade

Thankyou Ann and Maria for sharing with us what KMEIA is all about. I have hung onto the handy booklet of resources, tips and hints for pre-service teachers that we were given….very useful! We were also informed about some of the quality events KMEIA present, including the David Lawrence Master-class which I am attending. Ann and Maria were very enthusiastic presenters; they even managed to get a bunch of tired uni students up and moving with a Shenanigans dance.Anna Buswell (UQ student participant).

Greetings from Qatar Liz Thomas


started to hum the melody. After we had as a group named the piece one of the children asked if the suite also had that “Mountain King thing.” I started to sing it in time names and was joined by every child who knew the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King. It was in time names, out loud, keeping the beat by clapping or stamping or bashing the desk, TOTALLY UNMUSICALLY I must admit but they were having an absolute ball! They were demonstrating their ability to think musically. That is, they could use what they knew in a musical setting. When I asked, “Hey, could you have done that six months ago?” there was much smiling as they realized what they had done. The kids who didn’t know the song were very cross of course and had to know the name of the piece so they could google it. They also instructed me to teach it to the whole class so that they could know what the others do. (We had never mentioned the piece before this you see.) I encourage all to stick to their convictions about teaching slowly and thoroughly. This happening in my class will keep me going for a very, very long time.

Other fun stuff that has been happening includes starting our instrumental program. We have a few teachers on board now which is very exciting and have had a few more starting this year. (September) That means we will have voice, violin, piano, flute, trumpet and trombone. The Brits love the recorder too so I have been wooing someone to teach descant recorder. The difficulty has been finding instrumental staff who have permission to work. Without going into a long-winded explanation, all ex-pats have a sponsor who is either their employer or a family member. Employers can get very cross if they find out their staff are working 2 gigs. As a result, those teachers who are able to teach are very busy as you can imagine. I am learning to work around that.

One very encouraging thing I have discovered is that many teachers in the British system just do music. The kids, particularly Prep to Yr 2, are surrounded by music. They sing songs as a class, they listen to music, they dance, they play singing games and often they are given instructions through song. It is a wonderful thing. Music is just part of life. It meant that our inaugural “Sherborne’s Got Talent” was a brilliant success. I have to say, when I first heard it was being organized, I shuddered. Then, having discovered the amount of talent the school had, I began to headhunt. Singers and instrumentalists came out of the woodwork! I had seen it happen at the House Music competition we’d had earlier but not to the same extent. The House Music competition showed me the choral capability of the kids but this showed me soloists. This year is going to be fun.

This year we introduce the Middle School to our campus so I get to have a teaching partner, which is great but no longer get the opportunity to teach every child in the school, which is an unavoidable shame. I’ll let you know how that is all going next time.

Ma’alsalamah (good bye)Liz Thomas

Salam aleikum, kayfa hallok? (Peace be upon you, how are you)

The funniest thing happened to Brian, hubby, and I about two weeks ago. We have been on Summer Vacation since July 2 and traveling since July 4. Two weeks ago we both realized how much we missed home but we didn’t actually mean Brisbane…oops. I guess that is a good thing though as it shows how much we are really enjoying life in Qatar. Who’d have thought?

Now in Brisbane for a few weeks, can I firstly say thanks to the Committee for the great workshop with David Lawrence on August 21. What a good day, both for the learning that happened and for the opportunity to catch up with so many very missed friends.

So, what’s going on in Qatar? Well, let me first tell you about some of the children I mentioned in the last newsletter. Omer and Durukan continue to work on their in tune singing. They even had some of the more musical children stop in their tracks due to the absolute beauty of their tone. It goes to show, again, that children can achieve many things if they are expected to and are encouraged. Shaika and Asma have continued to be determined to do well and are bringing friends Shaiker and Hessa with them. They are now able to help the new children to their classes to understand some of the rhythms and pitches we are working on. They also have promised to join the choir this year. Woohoo!

That’s the catch up on things I told you about last time and now, what’s new? Well, without wishing to sound like a show off, I have enjoyed my only reporting of the year. Specialists only have to write a formal report once a year. We can give comments we’d like included in the other reports of the year but we only do one lot at the end of the year. In our report we tell the parents what the children have achieved, academically, musically and “sociologically” and where the children can improve, if appropriate. We are instructed to use absolutely no jargon and if everything can be said in 3 sentences we must not pad out our report to fill up the space because that is just “guff”. Don’t you love it? For the first time ever I actually enjoyed writing reports AND for the first time in as long as I can remember my reports were handed in before the due date, with not one rewrite! Bliss.

As far as the learning of music goes, the children are still enjoying discovering music and performing. We discuss the difference between accuracy and musicality regularly and most are able to explain to each other why one particular performance was better than another. Of course we have arguments but they are usually, I say usually, informed.

I have often said that, “the longer I teach, the slower I teach.” A few weeks before the end of the year (June) my conviction got a little boost. Yr 6 by then knew ta, ti-ti, rest, drm very well and had been practising tika-tika for quite a while and had learned soh 2 weeks before. We were doing an abstract 4 note sight-reading task. You know the one, you place 4 notes on a staff and they read it. Then I added a few more notes until we actually had the beginning of Grieg’s Morning Mood. (s m r d r m s m r d r m) Some of the children had that, “Wait a minute, I know this,” look so I just

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Musical Beginnings

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DVD INCLUDES - 50 tracks of footage showing real teachers with their classes, demonstrating the songs and rhymes with accompanying games and activities.

CD ROM INCLUDESo A4 Blackline masters which include words and pictures for each song/rhyme (useful for take home activity sheets and/or classroom display)o Teacher resource sheets, including sheet music for each song and accompanying information about the song/rhyme with ideas for classroom use.o Teacher information on such topics as “how to teach a new song”, “tips for helping children to find a partner” and general information on the value of music education in the Early Years.

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KMEIA National Conference Melbourne“Music Matters” 26 - 29 September 2010 Mark O’Leary [email protected]

20th International Kodály Symposium“Music, a Common Language in Multicultural Education”June 25th - July 1st 2011Pyeongtaek City, KoreaKeep your eye on the IKS website – www.iks.hu – for details regarding submitting papers and workshops for inclusion in the conference program.

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Sound Thinking Australia and The Cuskelly College of Music Summer School2 – 14 January 2011 All Hallows’ School, Brisbane Earlybird registration closes 5 November www.soundthinkingaustralia.com

Professional DevelopmentThe Sound Thinking Summer School has gained international recognition through the AKC (Australian Kodály Certificate) courses as they can be used for credit toward a Masters from the Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Institute and the Franz Liszt

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