s other than English) 

Years 1 to 4 learn Italian, and Years 6 to 8 learn Japanese. Students in Year 9 can elect to study Japanese.

HPE (Health and Physical Education)

Specialist teachers are attached to our Primary and Middle School Campuses five days a week.

Click here to see the 2006 Regional Trial Days Calendar - February to November - by month

Click here to see 2006 Regional Trial Days - in detail - for all sports, events, places, times.

Music  

 

Instrumental Music

Strings Program

Kids on Keyboards

Recorder Group

Middle School ELO

       Music in the Primary School - teacher's website

Chancellor State College's Music Program  is currently coming online with the newly released Year 1 to 10 Syllabus – The Arts.

The key messages of The Arts Syllabus are that:

•  The arts are a meaningful part of everyday life

• The arts cultivate particular ways of thinking and learning

• Active participation in art-making practices is vital to learning in the arts

• Social, cultural and historical contexts contribute to the meanings of arts works.

The Arts Key Learning Area comprises five strands:

From the Arts Syllabus:

This strand focuses on students making music and developing the ability to think and express themselves in sound. Through immersion in repertoire from various cultural and historical contexts, students learn to aurally and visually identify, respond to and use the elements and patterns of music. This develops the ability to hear what is seen and see what is heard.

Students learn to recognise and interpret the emotional, spiritual and expressive content in the music they hear and perform. Meaning is constructed through engagement with music that is carefully chosen for its musical content, with the abilities, experience, needs and prior knowledge of students in mind. By singing, playing instruments, listening, moving, improvising and composing, students experience satisfaction and enjoyment as they learn.

The organisers of the Music learning outcomes are aurally and visually identifying and responding to music, singing and playing, and reading and writing music. These are interrelated and complementary processes. When planning learning activities and assessment opportunities, reading and writing music should be related to the processes of aurally and visually identifying and responding, as well as to singing and playing.

For more information on the Arts Syllabus, visit:  www.qsa.qld.edu.au

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Instrumental Music - Strings, Wind, Percussion

Two visiting teachers take individual, group and band practices several days a week.  Instrumental music programs (string, wind and percussion instruments) are available for children from Years 3-6 in the Primary School. This program is continued for students at the Middle School.  Entry into the program is determined at the beginning of each year.  

Three factors are taken into consideration

  student ability

  student aptitude

  availability of instruments

Contacts are  Lesley MacLeod and Claire Deady.

Strings Program

Chancellor school has a vibrant string program. At the moment, we have 30 students learning to play violin and cello and a waiting list of students wanting to join the program. 

Students are recruited in Year 3,  being tested for ability to recognise rhythm and the ability to sing to pitch. The school has a number of instruments for loan and students who don't have their own instrument can use a school instrument for one year. after a year, if the child wishes to continue, parents are encouraged to provide the child with his/her own instrument. They make excellent Christmas and birthday presents.

There is a small cost involved:-

$10 per semester if the student has an instrument of his/her own

$20 per semester if the students uses a school instrument.

Lessons are presently held on a Thursday during school time with our visiting teacher, Lesley MacLeod.

Kids on Keyboards - click here for more information

Recorder Group - click here for more information

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