Session information
Making music with found instruments
Creating a performance piece from everyday objects found within and around the classroom and playground.
Get ready to drum! In this workshop you’ll experience playing a four-part performance piece on things you’d find around the school – perhaps bins, chairs or playground equipment.
Older children learn music really effectively by doing, and you’ll be swept up in how to play, direct and teach a huge junk percussion piece that will wow audiences when your class performs it.
Presenter Rachel Scott will teach you how to get your class to work together as a percussion orchestra, using games developing pulse and developing rhythmic skills, where the only limit for your class is their imagination.
You’ll take home a pack teaching you the basics of how to musically warm up your class, some games developing a sense of beat, and a piece that you can either teach as Rachel’s written it for you, or adapt according to your needs.
This session will be noisy, physical and fun. You’ll leave with a smile on your face and a new love of bins, water bottles and whatever else can be found around the Wharf.
Presenter
Rachel Scott
Rachel Scott is a professional cellist and a primary school music educator who has been teaching in classrooms for over 20 years. She is currently the Education Manager of the Australian Children’s Music Foundation, a job that finds her delivering music lessons to disadvantaged children in the state, generating teaching resources, and training generalist teachers to feel more confident teaching music to their classes when she’s not there.
Rachel has developed workshops in partnership with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Australian Navy Band and the School of the Air. She teaches in metropolitan, regional and remote schools and has also worked in behavioural schools and taught via video-link. For many years, Rachel travelled to Timor Leste, working with Mary McKillop International training local Timorese teachers to deliver music lessons for both pre-school-aged children and children in primary classes.
