If your school has sets of ukuleles, our talented team can visit to teach them how to play classic and contemporary NZ songs, to learn and perform at the end of the month at the Ukulele Orchestra Concert.

Waimakariri Libraries are excited to be hosting special events to celebrate NZ Music Month in all three libraries. Our celebrations build to a crescendo with a Ukulele Orchestra concert at the Rangiora Town Hall, bringing together students, teachers, and talented members of the public from across the district, for a festive night for the whole family to enjoy New Zealand music.

Ukulele Orchestra Concert
Featuring Participating Waimakariri Schools
Rangiora Town Hall, Thursday 28 May, 5.30 – 6.30pm.

We would like to invite your school to participate in this exciting school outreach programme for the Month of May. If your school has sets of ukuleles, our talented team can visit to teach them how to play classic and contemporary NZ songs, to learn and perform at the end of the month at the Ukulele Orchestra Concert.

Chord charts will be provided for beginner, intermediate, and advanced songs to play.

This programme connects to the Music Curriculum in the following ways:

• Music is a fundamental form of expression, both personal and cultural. Value is placed upon the musical heritages of New Zealand’s diverse cultures, including traditional and contemporary Māori musical arts. By making, sharing, and responding to music, students contribute to the cultural life of their schools, whānau, peer groups, and communities.
• Students work individually and collaboratively to explore the potential of sounds and technologies for creating, interpreting, and representing music ideas.
• Students develop literacies in music as they listen and respond, sing, play instruments, create and improvise, read symbols and chord chart notations.
• Students will explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.
• Students will explore how sound is made as they listen and respond to the elements of music: beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.
• Students explore and express sounds and musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination.
• Students share music-making with others and respond to live and recorded music.

These lessons are only available during the month of May, before booking, please check your availability to participate in the Ukulele Orchestra Concert, Rangiora Town Hall, Thursday 28 May, 5.30 – 6.30pm.

We look forward to celebrating NZ Music Month with your school.