Creativity, Activity and Service have been apart of my everyday life for the past two years. If I’m being honest, at first it was challenging and it felt unnecessary but along the way I realized how important it was to keep me sane with the insane workload and I truly looked forward to some of…
Category: Creativity
Concert Band Semester 2
The Concert Band have been preparing for the Spring Gala concert in April 2020 since the start of the school year. We are to perform two pieces and they are: The Pirates of the Caribbean medley and Superstition by Stevie Wonder. I found Superstition hard to play in particular as it has complex rhythmic patterns….
Reviewing the Situation
The school arts department decided to produce “Oliver!” as the secondary school musical for the year 2019. It was a great opportunity for both the middle school and the senior school students to show case their talents in singing, theatre, dancing and in many other ways. This production was quite special to me as it…
CAS Project
As the service leader of the Temple School service group which primarily focuses on helping less fortunate children from the local Temple School in Thalawathugoda to help teach children aged 3-5 learn English. This year, I decided to change the goals of our service. Instead of only focusing on improving only the English knowledge of…
Graduation ’19
I have been playing in the concert band for almost a year now and I enjoy it a lot. We meet up on Monday afternoons and play a lot of fun music from different genres and I get to learn different types of playing techniques in these genres of music. The concert band plays for…
Spring Gala ’19
On the 4th of April we held our annual Spring Gala concert. It is a musical evening organized by the music department of our school for solo performances, voice and instrumental ensembles and bands. As an IB Music student and a member of the school concert band this was a great opportunity for me to…
SAISA Band and Choir ’19
SAISA is an organization which brings together international schools from across South Asia and West Asia to compete against one another in sports, music and other non-core curricular activities. SAISA events enable students to represent their schools at other schools abroad. They also provide students an opportunity to visit other international schools in the region and…
Winter Gala 2018
Winter Gala is a dazzling evening where ensembles, bands, choirs and solo performers exhibit their musical talents and it is a wonderful opportunity to come on stage and show everyone what you can do! The Concert Band has been practicing the theme song from the Chronicles of Narnia to perform at the Winter Gala concert…
Concert Band 2018-19
The OSC Concert Band plays in school events such as the Winter Gala,Spring Gala assemblies etc. The Concert Band meets every Monday from 2:50 p.m-3:50 p.m and Ms Duncan conducts the band. Since the begining of semester 1 the Concert Band has been practicing the film music from “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”. …
Trinity College London Cello
Last year over the holidays I was listening to different instrumental song covers on YouTube when I discovered the cello. The sound of the instrument was absolutely spellbinding and this made me listen to more cello music. I really wanted to learn to play the cello but my parents weren’t very sure about my choice…