All About Arts
Coming to you live from Music Camp at West Beach, we have survived and thrived on a super hot day. We have built a stronger community, rehearsed in our teams, eaten as many Zooper Doopers as we could, and confirmed that 2025 will be an exceptional year for CBC Music.
Music
Our first week of early morning rehearsals was fantastic – working for the extra time whilst our brains are fresh has already made a huge difference. A reminder that on the Junior Campus, our rehearsals look like this:
|
TEAM |
DAY |
TIME |
|
Junior Guitar Ensemble |
Monday |
7:30 – 8:20am |
|
B Vocal (Years 2 – 4) |
Monday |
Lunchtime |
|
JC Rock Band |
Wednesday |
7:30 – 8:20am |
|
Festival Choir (Years 5 – 6) |
Wednesday |
Lesson 5 |
|
JC Concert Band |
Friday |
7:30 – 8:20am |
Please note that, to be in an instrumental group (Guitars, Rock Band, Concert Band) you need to be having lessons, however everyone is welcome to join our Choirs.
Music Camp
As already mentioned, at the time of writing, we have just bid our campers good night. On arrival today we headed straight to the beach to start cool. We paddled up to our knees before our music captains led us through a game of Red Rover, and we then held a sandcastle-building competition.
The afternoon and evening saw rehearsals begin – due to the heat, Vocal Project had a fluid training session on the giant pillow, in the pool, and in the Bunkhouse Courtyard.
It has become traditional on a CBC Music Camp to form teams, which compete in various activities throughout the trip. We have eight teams this year, with each consisting of students from Years 7–11/12. Each team needs a name, designs a poster and battles in trivia, the tick-tac-toe relay and a songwriting challenge to determine which team will be victorious. Tonight’s trivia resulted in a tie between Teams 1 (led by Nikolas Fountas) and 4 (led by Will Axon). Tomorrow evening we will welcome Mr Johnston and Dr Del Col to judge our song competition.
We will return to CBC on Friday stronger and more musical!
Winter Co-curricular
We are looking forward to a stellar winter season in Chess and Debating, and the formal commencement of our Drama Club.
A reminder that SC Chess will begin in Week 5 with coaching sessions on Wednesday at lunchtimes in the music room as well as game practice on Thursday afternoons in W206.
And another reminder that SC Debating will also kick off in Week 5, with sessions on Tuesday afternoons in W206.
JC Chess and Debating, along with SC Drama Club, will commence in Term 2.
As always, questions can be sent through to me at any time.
Ms Alexandra Khafagi
Director of Performing Arts
