Music

Music 

The music program at Sunshine Harvester Primary School is run every Tuesday and includes all students across the school from Foundation through to Year 6.

It is a diverse program that adopts a hands on approach, enabling students to develop musical, literacy and numeracy skills from an early age. The course also includes elements of rhythmic and harmonic theory.

Activities include:

• Ukulele
• singing and choir
• world rhythms on a variety of drums
• percussion rhythms and skills on various hand instruments
• dance, step clap co-ordination,
• marimba and xylophone to name a few.
  
  
  

 Music classes are about more than just playing instruments and singing songs. The   program also helps develop cohesion and cooperation between students. Mark takes   the children on a musical adventure, tracing the history and styles of music around   the world. They experience music from Africa, Brazil, Jamaica and America as well as   popular modern music, through percussion, music, song and dance. Mark loves to   watch the children's faces when they achieve something musically for the first time.

 Mark Grunden is an engaging teacher who is kept busy teaching at a variety of   schools around Melbourne while also maintaining a busy career as a professional   drummer, percussionist and event facilitator. (CW Stoneking, Bad Boys Batucada, T   Tumbarumba, Fiona Boyes, founder and musical director of O’Ziriguidum Escola de   Samba, Sol Nation to name a few)

We also have a weekly lunchtime 'Song Club' for those children who love to sing and perform, and 'Rock Band' for Year 5 and 6 students who perform at Year 6 graduation and other events towards the end of each year.