Diana Springford – Head of Music

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Instrument Maintenance Check Day
Tuesday 29 November  – Wednesday 30 November 2022
(Week 8)

If you are borrowing any school instrument, please bring it into the Music Department by 8.00 am on Tuesday 29 November 2022 (or on Wednesday, if you do IP on that day) to be checked and serviced by our team. Instruments on loan to K-2 strings players in ISP will be retained after their lesson in Week 7 for checking in Week 8. Regrettably, any instruments which are not serviced in our maintenance check will need to be taken by parents to be serviced at a music shop at their own expense. Students should pick up their instruments on Thursday unless they get an email from us or are returning them permanently.  Instruments should be clean and have a student name tag attached with the instrument barcode on the reverse. If this name tag is missing, please ask Mrs De Araujo in the music staffroom to label it for you.

End of Year 6 IP (Instrumental Program) and continuing Music Tuition in High School

For parents of Year 6 students who are coming to the end of the compulsory Instrumental Program, you have received an email about the return of your School-loaned instrument and your intentions regarding private music tuition and High School ensembles. Please reply to Joanne De Araujo

Dates and Events

Week 6

• Twilight Concerts (tutor-nominated performances) on Wednesday 16 November 2022.
• IP only is cancelled this week to enable Aladdin Jr rehearsals.

Week 7

• Aladdin Jr performances Sunday 20 November 2022, Monday 21 November 2022, Tuesday 22 November 2022 
• IP and ISP are on as normal.
• Early morning and late afternoon Primary School ensemble rehearsals on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are cancelled because of Aladdin Jr performances: Junior Chamber Choir, Bernstein & Gershwin Concert Bands, Year 6 Rock Band and Korngold and Rubinstein String Orchestras.

Week 8      

• Instrument Stocktake and Maintenance Days – see full details above.

Week 9

• Primary and High School end of year presentation events.

Private Music Tuition and Infant Strings Program

Thank you to those who have already advised us of changes to private tuition and Infant Strings Program (ISP) enrolments for next year via the online forms on our MusicPortal Page. The deadline for new enrolments or intention to discontinue for Term 1 is Friday 18 November 2022 (end of Week 6).  All students currently receiving private music tuition and students in Years K-1 who are currently participating in the Infant Strings Program will be automatically re-enrolled along with students commencing lessons for the first time. Formal discontinuation notice must be received to avoid being committed to the full term of lessons and liable for fees.

Please contact music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if you have any questions.  

The schedules for Term 1, 2023 will be created at the end of term and emailed in late January.