The Arts
The Glennie Performing Arts Program starts in Junior Years where Dance, Visual Arts and Music lessons are taught from Kindergarten.
Our comprehensive curriculum and immersion programs ensure students thrive and develop a love of music, dance, and theatre. Through participation in the Arts, Glennie girls develop important leadership, teamwork, and communication skills, and learn how to navigate relationships and prioritise their time. Involvement in the Arts also encourages creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
Choral Program
The Glennie School’s Prep to Year 12 Choral Program gives all students access to non-auditioned choirs that rehearse weekly and perform at key School events.
Our non-auditioned choirs focus on engagement and enjoyment in the Arts and choral singing. Students looking to extend their choral experience can audition for vocal ensembles from Year 5. The auditioned vocal ensembles focus on highly developed choral skills and choral blend.
G Minor Choir (Prep to Year 4, non-auditioned).
G Major Choir (Years 5-6, non-auditioned).
G Major Arpeggios (auditioned vocal ensemble for students in the G Major Choir).
School Choir (Years 7-12, social non-auditioned).
Performance Choir (Years 7-12 auditioned for members of School or Chamber Choir).
Chamber Choir (Years 7-12 auditioned vocal ensemble for members of Performance Choir).
Belles Voix (auditioned small contemporary vocal quartet).
Instrumental Program
Learning to play an instrument is associated with higher levels of academic achievement, as it promotes muscle memory and enhances executive functioning.
In Year 4, all students learn a woodwind (clarinet, flute, saxophone), brass (trumpet, trombone, tuba, euphonium), or rhythm (bass guitar, concert percussion) instrument. Lessons are taught weekly in small groups. Students who excel are invited to play in the Introductory Concert Band which develops their rhythm and intonation processing to prepare for larger ensemble playing.
In Year 5, students can elect to continue on their instrument and receive paired lessons throughout the year. Woodwind, brass, and rhythm students can also choose to enrol in extra-curricular music lessons.
Junior Years Immersion Program
In Year 2, all students engage in the Strings Immersion Program which includes weekly small group lessons on their chosen string instrument (violin, viola, cello, or double bass).
In Year 3, students are invited to join the Strings Performance Program and are offered paired lessons with talented musicians.
In Year 4, students are engaged in the Band Immersion Program which offers weekly small group lessons on brass instruments (trumpet, trombone, tuba, euphonium) and woodwind (flute, clarinet, saxophone). Students who excel are invited to play in the Introductory Concert Band which develops their rhythm and intonation processing to prepare for larger ensemble playing.
In Years 5 and 6, students are able to continue their small group lessons on their band or string instrument.
Students are encouraged to join either the Junior Years Concert Band or the Senior Years Concert Band first and then other ensembles. The Concert Bands are the foundation and largest ensemble for these instruments.
- Year 2 String Immersion Program – Year 2.
- Introductory String Ensemble – Years 2-3.
- Junior Years String Ensemble – Years 4-6.
- Year 4 Band Immersion Program – Year 4.
- Introductory Band – Year 4musicians.
- Junior Years Concert Band – Years 4-6.
- Junior Years Jazz Band – invitation only for Years 4-6.
- Senior Years Youth Jazz Ensemble – Years 7-12.
- Senior Years Concert Band – Years 7-12.
- Senior Years Woodwind Ensemble – Years 7-12.
- The Glennie Big Band Years – invitation only for Years 7-12.
- The Glennie Jazz Ensemble – Years 7-12 auditioned – members must be in the Concert Band.
- Senior Years String Orchestra – Years 7-12non-auditioned ensemble for all string players.
- Senior Years Youth Chamber Ensemble – Years 7-12 auditioned.
- Senior Years Chamber String Ensemble – Years 7-12 auditioned.
- Senior Years String Quartet – Years 7-12 auditioned.
Dance Classes and Troupes
Dance allows students to connect physical movement with expression. The Glennie Dance Program provides all students from Kindy to Year 12 with an opportunity to engage in dance for enjoyment or for the development of technical skills required for troupe.
Dancers can audition for the Middle Years and Senior Years Dance Troupes which compete and perform throughout the year. Genres for dance classes include:
- Tap.
- Contemporary.
- Hip-Hop.
- Jazz.
- Ballet.
- Point Classes.
- Dance Collective.
