By Jeremy Lister
Last week Mum, William and I all went to winter school at the Tenterfield high school every day. Winter school is a music school run by Dr James Cuskelly who is also our music teacher at St Joseph’s, and it went from Monday to Friday at 9 am to 3:15 pm on the last week of the June-July school holiday. Every day the schedule was the same. We would first go to musicianship with Carla Trott, then have morning tea, after morning tea we would go to junior choir and then musical theatre after which was lunch. After lunch, you had a choice of which lesson you wanted to go to, and if I remember correctly the choices were band, songwriting, music games and string ensemble but I always went to string ensemble with Evalyn Legried. After that, it would be massed choir.
Dr Cuskelly said that “winter school 2022 Saw 100 participants and 20 staff gather for a fantastic week of learning, music-making and music performance. It has been so fantastic to see how the students have responded to the music and joined in all of the activities. The final concert was a real showcase of the work that had been done by all participants. We are so delighted to have had such high-level faculty involved in the program and we are looking forward to our next program”.
We had a fantastic time at winter school and can’t wait to attend again next and maybe even the summer school in Brisbane in January 2023.
