Our students have a the opportunity to attend music lessons. Each class, from Year 1 to Year 5, has a music lesson every two weeks. We have been obliged to seek an alternative place for the lessons to take place, since we still don't have any available room within the school premises, but we are hoping that with the development of the new school ground, we will also have a specialised room for such activities.
The students are being trained in various aspects of music, including singing, rhythm, playing percussion instruments, instrument building, aural training, and general musical awareness, among other topics. They are also being given basic theory lessons and lessons in recorder playing. The students really enjoy these sessions, and participate with joy in the activities.
As in previous years, the students of Year 3 to Year 6 also have the opportunity of taking part in the school choir. The choir trains for school masses and special activities, as well as for other occasions such as the Second Holy Communion, and various occasions organized for charity.
Every year, the students have an opportunity to participate in a musical play and/or in the Christmas Concert and Prize Day. In 2006, for example, the Year 6 students took part in Pjaneta Ambjent, an original musical in Maltese, depicting the natural habitats in our islands and the dangers that it faces nowadays. This musical, whose script, lyrics and music have been written and composed by me, included acting, singing and also dancing. Mr. Martin DeGabriele has also produced an original video depicting different Maltese environments and plant and animal species, to be run as a background to the students' acting and singing. In 2007, the Year 2 classes participated in The Journey, another musical, about Joseph's and Mary's journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
In 2008 the Year 4 students presented a musical called Countdown to Christmas, for the December concert. This concert included singing, acting and dancing. Among other numerous occasions, for the 2009 prize day, we presented a musical play about Saint Paul, performed by the Year 6 classes. The script was written by Mrs. Kathleen Caruana Salafia, our remedial teacher, while some of the songs were taken from the new CD.
Most importantly, we are trying to fill our students' lives with music, with all the joy, co-operation and friendship that music introduces in our lives.