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Performing Arts
Welcome to Sunshine Coast Grammar School’s Performing Arts Faculty.
From Pre Prep through to Year 12, Grammar’s Performing Arts weaves a rich tapestry of cultural experiences for our students, through our Drama and Music programs.
Drama and Music at Grammar is multi faceted, fun filled and inclusive. It offers our students an avenue for self expression, and is used for education, celebration, and social connectivity.
Drama
Primary School Speech and Drama at Grammar is a compulsory subject. A specialist drama teacher delivers one lesson per week to our students from Prep to Year Six.
Speech and Drama is an important subject for all Prep - Year 6 students. Our program aims to develop clear and effective speech and communication skills, build confidence and self-esteem and support and enhance oral and dramatic presentations. Students are encouraged to express and communicate understandings about relationships and experiences through the enactment of real and imagined events. They interact in a range of roles and situations, investigating feelings and actions.
Middle School Drama offers students the opportunity to increase their involvement in the discipline. The subject is compulsory for students in years 7 and 8 and is taught in one class per week. Students in years 9 and 10 have the opportunity to elect Drama as a subject. In year 9 their lesson time increases to three classes a week and in year 10, up to four.
During the middle years students are taught the elements of drama and a variety of conventions that will assist in skill building.
In keeping with Grammar’s Middle School philosophy of curriculum being relevant, meaningful and rich, year 8 and 9 students can also elect to study Drama as a Special Interest Subject (SIS Drama). This course caters for those who want to extend their skills and those who want to learn and experience more about the rich world of drama performance.
Drama in the Senior School is very much a time where students extend and refine skills in specified areas of study. Students are exposed to a wider range of styles and are asked to analyse and develop performances within these given contexts. Within the safety of the drama classroom students are exposed to real life situations. The intention is that when students are exposed to these difficult situations outside of the classroom, they are better equipped to manage them. Students are assessed in the three dimensions of forming, presenting and responding. This allows students with strengths in all the fields of Drama to have an opportunity to succeed.
All students in Drama are exposed to several live performances throughout the year. Often students will have the opportunity to travel to Brisbane to view performances, and work with professional actors, directors and playwrights.
Music
Our Curriculum and Instrumental Music programs complement each other, working together to develop a rounded musician; one who will see music when listening to it and hear music when reading it.
Curriculum Music
Primary School Music at Grammar is a compulsory subject. A specialist Music teacher delivers two lessons per week to our Pre-preps and Preps, and one lesson per week to our Year One to Year Six students.
With a heavy focus on inclusivity, Music lessons use the voice as the primary instrument, enabling students to experience and practice the elements of music. Students are also engaged through an abundance of other activities such as traditional group games, the use of percussion instruments, and the use of props such as puppets etcetera.
Middle School Music maintains the same philosophies as the Junior School, and continues as a compulsory subject taught once a week throughout the year, for years 7 and 8. For year 9 students Music is an elective.
During the middle years students are taught keyboards and guitars as mediums for performance and composition.
In keeping with Grammar’s Middle School philosophy of curriculum being relevant, meaningful and rich, year 8 and 9 students can also elect to study Music as a Special Interest Subject (SIS Music). This course caters for those who want to extend their performance and musicianship skills, and those who want to find out more about music performance.
Music in the Senior School is very much a time where students study the elements of music in greater depth. To that end students perform, analyse and evaluate music of different cultures, and use the compositional devices learned through studying the repertoire to write music.
Students enrolled in year 12 Music may also elect to enrol in Extension Music, a QSA Certified OP subject. Extension Music in an exciting and challenging course which offers students to do further study in on of three specialisations: Performance, Composition, or Musicology.
Instrumental Music
Sunshine Coast Grammar School has an outstanding reputation for Music Performance. When a student learns an instrument they are exposed to a powerful learning environment. One that is academically stimulating, social and fun. The benefits of learning to be a musician are endless.
At Grammar, we believe that learning an instrument develops skills needed by the 21st century workforce. These include critical thinking, creative problem solving, effective communication, team work, and more. Further, learning an instrument keeps students engaged in school and less likely to leave school prematurely. That is, it improves the atmosphere for learning, it helps students achieve in other academic subjects like Mathematics, Science and English, and it helps communities share ideas and values across cultures and generations. Learning to be a musician is a disciplined human endeavour with intrinsic value to society. http://supportmusic.com/SMBrochure_eng.pdf
Students who enroll in the Instrumental Program or who play with a School ensemble learn and perform many different genres of music. These range from Classical through to Jazz and other Contemporary styles including Rock and Pop.
Grammar offers a range of tuition options including vocal, all woodwind, brass, and orchestral string instruments, piano, keyboard, guitar, and tuned and untuned percussion.
Current ensembles include Senior, Middle, and Junior School Choirs, Big Band, Senior and Junior Concert Bands, Senior and Junior String Ensembles, Senior String Quartet, various wind ensembles, and Chapel Bands.
A direct link between Curriculum Music and Instrumental Music can be seen in the Friday afternoon activities from year’s 2-5.
Years 2 through 4 each participate in 30 minutes of Choral Singing. Year 4 classes also do a further 30 minutes of String Ensemble, and Year 5 students participate in a Band Program where each student learns either a woodwind or brass instrument.
If you would like your child to learn an instrument please fill in the attached Enrolment / Re-enrolment Form and have your child return it either directly to the Music Department reception or via their class teacher.
For any queries or concerns, please email Instrumental Music or contact Mr Charlie Simm on 5445 4444.
Extracurricular Enrolment Forms
Instrumental Music | Music Theory | Speech Tuition | Drama Tuition