Director of Culture | Mr Matt Cocking
Online Music lesson success
Thank you to the 460 families who each week transformed their living rooms into a music studio for half an hour. Students were eager to be a part of this online environment and continue their ongoing learning. Teacher feedback was that students were more attentive and ready to learn while parents have commented on how much insight they now have to further support this from home. The ultimate partnership has a great student, teacher and parent who is supporting from the home front. One positive of 2020 will be a greater understanding and support for our students and their future success.
Watch this great YouTube video by Yamaha Australia about the trilogy of the student, teacher and parent and how we, as parents, help and keep our students engaged.
GTCouchella@Home
GTCouchella@Home has been an excellent vehicle to give students a performance-oriented goal while in isolation and all students have been very proud of the clips they have been able to share. These have formed an important part of our community staying together and supporting each other throughout this period of isolation.
Last Sunday we featured Angus Freer (Year 11) playing Master of the Puppets on Bass Guitar. Well done Angus.
Sunday sessions continues 3pm Sunday this week with the Year 12 principals of School of Rock, released on the College FaceBook and Cultural Instagram. Terrace music is also collaborating with the River City Music Organisation in Louisville, Kentucky on some global scale collaborations, which we hope to release soon. I have seen some rushes of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble collaborating with 1200 other musicians, and the final result will be outstanding. Stay tuned.
‘ISO’ Chess Tournament
The final round of ISO Chess was held this week. Congratulations to the following top eight Terrace Chess players:
Winner - Alex Ong (Year 11)
2nd - Max Elliott (Year 5)
3rd - Joshua Alfredson (Year 9)
4th - Yang Zhang (Year 12)
5th - Tom Beckmann (Year 8)
5th - Justin Jeyarajah (Year 12)
6th - Adrian Jesuthasan (Year 10)
7th - Tom Barnett (Year 9)
Thank you to Mr Liam Herne and our Chess coaches for hosting this. We look forward to presenting the winners with their virtual trophy.
Mooting
As with so many other activities, the 2020 National High School Mooting competition did not proceed. Held each year at Bond University, Terrace has always been competitive with past students being counted amongst the previous winners.
For those whose first question is “What is Mooting?”, it is an opportunity for students in Years 11 and 12 to develop their advocacy skills in a competitive environment. Run by the Faculty of Law, Terrace is very proud to be a part of this invitation only national competition.
On behalf of the College, we would like to thank Mrs Samantha Knott for her leadership of this team and commend the following students who were to have represented Terrace last weekend:
• Senior Counsel – Finbar Carroll
• Junior Counsel – Jack Gibb
• Solicitor – William Varvari