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It’s been a busy end of year for the
Randwick School band program with
both bands juggling busy performance
schedules.
Last month the Combined Performance
Band was invited to perform at the 100 th
Anniversary of Vaucluse House as a
museum. The Randwick band were part
of all day celebration on a beautiful sunny
Sunday to mark the occasion.
If you‘re keen to catch a live performance,
both bands will be performing on 14 th
November at the St Jude’s Fete and the
school’s annual End of Year Concert in
the afternoon. They’ll also be making an
appearance at the End of Year BBQ on 27 th
November.
ENROL NOW!
If you want your child to be part of
Randwick’s excellent band program in
2016, enrolments are underway right now
for the Training Band which is open to
students from Year 4 and above.
If you missed the information night at
the end of October, please send the Band
Committee an email as soon as possible
for more information: rpsbandconvener@
gmail.com.
Finally, if you needed any persuasion
about whether your child should join,
here’s a note from our dynamic musical
director Megan Lipworth about the great
benefits of learning instrumental music:
“Did you know that instrumental music is
the only activity that has been empirically
and scientifically proven to fire up every
part of the brain at once?
According to musical educator Richard
Gill, instrumental music is often described
as being at ‘the top of the educational
food chain’.
This is because instrumental music activities
demands and stimulates the highest
levels of intellectual, linguistic, mathematical,
creative, independent and social
skills, micro and macro coordination and
aerobic training, as well as some of the
most important personality traits, such
as tenacity, patience, cooperation, ability
to follow instructions, leadership, time
management and self confidence, ... the
list is endless! “
Oh, and did we forget to say being in the
band is lots of FUN? Well it is!
We try and wrap up enrolments and allocate
instruments by the end of this term
so the sooner you make contact with us
the better.
The Combined Performance Band with
musical director Megan Lipworth
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