Music at Buckley House is active, creative and fun
The class music program includes singing, listening, speech, movement, folk dancing and playing percussion instruments to encourage all students to enjoy music.
All students in Years 2 to 4 receive weekly instrumental tuition with students in Years 2 and 3 learning the violin, viola or the cello while students in Year 4 learn the flute, double bass, clarinet or the trumpet.
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Instrumental program
The instrumental program is available to all students on a range of orchestral and popular instruments. These include: violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, drum kit and voice. Other instruments are also available upon request.
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Concerts and Productions
There is ample opportunity for students to perform throughout the year at both formal and informal concerts. Music Performance ensembles include the Senior Choir, Year 2 and 3 Singers, Concert Band, Senior Strings, Dodemaide strings, Percussion ensemble and Guitar ensemble.
Highlights of the music program are the biennial musical production, with all students in Prep to Year 6 appearing on stage, music soirees and the annual Buckley House Showcase Concert.
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Visual Arts
The Visual Arts program at Buckley House provides students with opportunities to express themselves through their art works - to record what they see and know, to explore their imaginations, to express what they feel, and to experience the joy of creating and making.
The Buckley House Art Studio is an exciting, well-resourced space where students are encouraged and stimulated to think, plan, discuss, research, experiment, make, share, evaluate and present. A positive environment where effort and creativity are valued is promoted, and students understand that artworks are individual and we think and respond in our own unique ways.
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The Visual Arts program is based on classroom Integrated Units, following the interests of children and the development of specific art areas. Skills are taught through practical activities and children understand that each art area has particular tools, media and techniques to be learnt.
By viewing and responding to the work of other artists, children expand their own language of art and come to understand, appreciate and develop aesthetic values of their own.
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