Performing Arts

Musical Futures

The Musical Futures approach to teaching and learning music in the classroom has hands on student music performance at its core. It is a new and imaginative way of engaging and sustaining young people in music activities. At Trafalgar Primary School, whole classes are engaged in music making, bringing students and their existing passion for contemporary music together into the classroom.

Musical Futures brings non-formal teaching and informal learning into the classroom and introduces teachers to new roles as mentors, coaches and guides. At Trafalgar Primary School, we believe that music learning works best when young people are making music in bands with their friends.

Musical Futures was designed for secondary schools, with a particular focus on 11-14 yr old students, as this has long been an age at which students seem to lose interest in music learning in school. However, Trafalgar Primary School was the first official Primary School in the world to implement the full Musical Futures Approach successfully in Grades 3-6, with Music now taught from Foundation to Year 6. A partnership now exists between Trafalgar Primary School and the neighbouring Trafalgar High School that sees our experienced teams of Musicians, Music teachers and Instrumental Music Staff providing a fluid program and musical transition from primary school to the high school, Foundation through to Year 12.

Champion School Info

To read more about the Music Program at Trafalgar Primary School, visit the official Musical Futures Australia Champion Schools page or, to go to the official Musical Futures Australia and Musical Futures UK website.

Instrumental Music Program

Trafalgar Primary School provides students with an Instrumental Music Program that has been developed over many years. The study of music fosters intellectual, physical and emotional development. In addition to teaching students to play their instruments, our Instrumental Music Program teaches students to develop their teamwork, commitment and study skills.

Dance

Dance is expressive movement with purpose and form. Through Dance, our students express, question and celebrate human experience, using the body as the instrument and movement as the medium for personal, social, emotional, spiritual and physical communication. Like all art forms, dance has the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging students to reach their creative and expressive potential.

Active participation as dancers, choreographers and audiences promotes wellbeing and social inclusion. Learning in and through Dance enhances students’ knowledge and understanding of diverse cultures, times and locations and develops their personal, social and cultural identity.

Drama

Drama is a dynamic practice that introduces students to a world of wonder and play. At Trafalgar Primary School we offer Drama classes that include mime, skits and plays. The aim of the classes is to develop team work, creativity and oral confidence. Drama is offered to students in Grades 1-6.