Parkhurst State Primary School in Queensland has won first prize in the 2011 Flame Awards and received $10,000.

The awards are the Music Council of Australia’s national scheme to highlight and reward the most inspiring school music programs.

The schools were picked from a pool of 23 national finalists in the Awards which this year set out to highlight schools using creative ways to engage children in music making and singing.

Read Parkhurst’s winning entry here

Please save the date for  the 2012 VCE Music Teachers’ Conference.
Finalised program and registration form available shortly.

DATES
Saturday 25 February, 2012
Sunday 26 February, 2012

VENUE
Carey Baptist Grammar School, 349 Barkers Road, KEW

DRAFT PROGRAM (SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT IF REQUIRED)

SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY

Session 1
MUSIC STYLE AND COMPOSITION
9.00am – 12.30pm

Session 1A
VCE VET
9.00am – 12.30pm

Session 2
MUSIC INVESTIGATION
1.15pm – 4.45pm

SUNDAY 26 February

Session 4
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
9.00am – 4.30pm

CONFERENCE COSTS

SESSIONS 1, 1A and 2 (Saturday sessions)
• $50 per session for members
• $75 per session for non-members

SESSIONS 4 (Sunday session)
• $140 for members
• $260 for non-members

CATERING
Morning and afternoon tea are included on both days of the VCE Conference.
Lunch is included for Session 4 (Sunday) only. Participants attending all sessions on Saturday 25 February should bring their own lunch on this day.

ENQUIRIES
Kevin Kelley
03 9349 1048
info@amuse.vic.edu.au
www.amuse.vic.edu.au

In 2012, a3 – Australian Arts Alive will present four performing arts focused Professional Development workshops for primary classroom and specialist teachers in Melbourne and Sydney.

Visit www.aspagroup.com.au/a3 for more information or to download a registration form.

Start or Revive Your School Choir
Want to make your students sing with glee? Learn simple and effective tricks of the trade to enable you to launch and run a vibrant school choir that students will want to join!

Friday 17 February – 9.30am – 3.30pm

Fun and Easy Dance
So you think you can’t dance? You’ll be amazed at how much fun and how easy these routines are to learn and to teach!

Tuesday 1 May – 4.30 – 6.30pm

Music for Your Classroom
Want to make your curriculum sing? Whatever your skill level, learn how to present music using a fun and integrated approach.

Friday 3 August – 9.30am – 3.30pm

Confident Conducting for Confident Choirs
Need a helping hand? From beat patterns to body language, learn how to take your choir to the next level.

Tuesday 16 October – 4.30 – 6.30pm

Kass Brown

Administrator – PR and Programs

Australian School of Performing Arts

t:  03 9001 1879 or 1800 338 142

e:  kbrown@aspagroup.com.au

w:  www.aspagroup.com.au

Read about the ACO Schools’ Program for 2012

• Do you have problems attending professional development workshops during the day?
• Are you located outside a metropolitan area and have trouble travelling to city-based professional development days?
• Are you interested in getting your teeth stuck into a multi-week PD course that holds you accountable for your learning?

Starting 2012: Live, Online, Music Technology PD Courses

During 2012, I’ll be running a number of new online training courses, starting with a Sibelius Basics Course in late January. Each course will take place after-hours, in the evening and will be run over 3-4 consecutive weeks.

Other courses will follow the Sibelius Basics course: Sibelius Advanced, Sibelius in the Classroom (using Sibelius with students), Audacity, Acid, MuseScore, Mixcraft, GarageBand and others.

midnightmusic.com.au/index.php/online-after-hours-music-technology-courses/

17th Biennial ANCOS Conference - “Voices of the Swan” 8-13 January 2012
Hosted by WAOSA.

Creative Music & Movement education (Orff)

waosa.org.au/voices/Home.aspx

New Teacher/Graduate PD day at Macquarie University on the 19th of November (daytime) followed by 4.45pm AGM for ASME.

Please feel free to send through any reviews, write ups, events etc, that you consider would be valuable to share with the ASME community. Please note that we are using the google site (below) as our main form of communitcation while the National Executive look to develop a new National site that would host all state and territory chapters. https://sites.google.com/site/asmensw/

This session is specifically focusing upon new teachers and recently graduated music
educators. Sessions will relate to curriculum, technology, teaching HSC music, conducting and a
special session presented by recent graduates for new teachers. Board of Studies Inspector Jay
McPherson will also present a session for new teachers as well.

Back to School Day – Sat 25 February 2012

Kilvington Grammar School

Ormond Vic

8.45am – 1.00pm

Presenters: Celia Gall, Lyn Richardson, Anne Wilson

VOSA & KMEIA are pleased to offer 2 concurrent sessions for teachers covering

activities for the early years (Prep – Year 4), middle years (Year 5 – Year 8), ideas

for the music classroom and choral repertoire, plus plenty of ideas for teachers new to music.

For more information please go to www.vosa.org or www.kodaly.org.au, email admin@vosa.org

or call 03 9015 8350.

For registration please visit www.vosa.org

Brass Bedlam: A mad-cap, educational romp through history using brass instruments, song and verse.

Book now for 2012.

kaddis@melbpc.org.au