Join Kodály Queensland and Tess Laird for a full-day Primary Music workshop in beautiful Cairns, Queensland! Morning Tea and Lunch provided.
*Please note: This is an in-person workshop only and will not be recorded*
8:30-9am Welcome and Registration
9-10:30am Session 1: Are they listening? Prove it! Ideas for Active listening that require dynamic student engagement
10:30-11am Morning Tea
11am-12:30pm Session 2: Songs and games that last the distance: Old and new, tried and true!
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3pm Session 3: Keep calm and play along! Incorporating tuned and untuned percussion instruments in the Primary Music Classroom
Tess Laird is an experienced Education Queensland primary music specialist, committed member of the Kodály Australia and in demand as an Australian Kodály Certificate Course lecturer and workshop presenter. She is highly qualified with a Master of Music Studies from the University of Queensland and a highly skilled musician in her own right with two Associate Diplomas in Music from the AMEB in Singing and Piano. She has completed the Australian Kodály Certificate in Primary Music Education and the revered Queensland 10 Week Teacher In-service Course.
Tess has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to state education teaching exclusively in Queensland state primary schools for nearly 30 years. She recently celebrated 20 years at Middle Ridge State School in Toowoomba. As a beginning teacher she completed the Queensland Department of Education 10 Week full-time Teacher In-service Course which has laid the foundation for Tess to dedicate a career to providing Queensland children with quality music education. Tess is also an inspiring model in Kodály-inspired practice, and regularly mentors and opens her classroom to others.