A Glorious Gala
Monday 8 August 2011
The 2011 Gala Concert was a wonderful night of diversity and involvement for our music students and their parents. Our Head of Music, Jenny Mathers, and her dedicated team, presented a varied concert beginning with the Jorgensen Orchestra playing with confidence and enthusiasm, the overture to The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. It concluded with a full choir and chamber orchestra singing a number of excerpts from Vivaldi’s Gloria. The soloists, Stephanie Akaoui and Amelia Hamer, added much lustre to this excellent performance. As Music Captains for 2011, both girls have worked with skill and dedication in the pursuit of Music at St Catherine’s. There was general agreement on audience and staff that a very good standard has been achieved across the board in Music this year.
It is always a challenge, and of course a wonderful adventure, to strive to be even better than the time before. Our Year 8 Rowing Information Night will be held tonight and the aim of the Heyington Club and our rowing coaches is to build on the successes of 2010. To do this, we need our Year 8 students to participate this
year and then next year, as Year 9 students, in this magnificent program. Our Year 12 students will also be involved in a tertiary presentation evening tonight. As with Music and Rowing, our subject selection and careers advice continues to reach for new standards as we assist students and families not only with
choice, but with decision making. The Year 6 students, who are often extremely grown up in the second half of the year, are heading to Canberra to see the sights and do some serious thinking about the government of our country. For parents there is an opportunity to attend the Music Auxiliary’s ‘Let the Good Times Roll’ this Saturday 13 August. Without our St Catherine’s community joining us in our pursuit of excellent events and activities, our School would be much less integrated.
Once again, an extremely busy week of diverse activities all linked to a common purpose of excellence for our students.