23 Sep 2016
Every year Stage 1 students spend every Friday, for two terms, learning 9 songs for the Junior Music Festival. Schools from Warilla, Warilla North, Peterbrough, Shellharbour, Shell Cove and Flinders gather together at the end of Term 3 to perform for each other and the Probus Choir.
This year our Theme was Australiana. A series of well loved and some very tricky songs were chosen by Shell cove to represent the musical culture of our country. Our individual Item was G'day G'day. The children sang with gusto and enthusiasm, making all the teachers proud. All the students behaved impeccably, and as were the largest school represented we felt very honoured to take them.
This event has now been running for 13 years after Tania Guistiniani and Michelle Garland (an ex teacher) began creating an atmosphere to build the profile of choir based singing among our local schools.
Thanks must be extended to the amazing students for their effort and practice as well as our amazing staff who support me teaching and learning the songs every week. As with everything at Flinders it is a massive team effort.