In
the video we see the lead up to the concert that took place on 31 May 2009
and hear from teachers and parents just how much children have been
practicing and looking forward to it. They have been really invigorated and
enthusiastic and have loved every minute of rehearsals. And they are really
excited about joining together with so many other children from different
schools.
In
the concert 10 school choirs from Gauteng joined together to sing either the
24 Consonant Songs or the 20 Vowel Songs from the THRASS SING-A-LONG CD. The
schools rehearsed on their own and, for the concert, 300 children sang
before the interval and 300 sang after it.
We
see the children, led by Janine Plunkett who wrote the words and music for
the songs, performing a number of songs including ‘Give me a high five’,
‘Treasure have I’, ‘At six o’clock’, ‘A scary man’ and ‘I am a fish’. Their
faces are so expressive and their performance of ‘My teddy bear and I’ is
particularly delightful.
Everyone who attended enjoyed seeing the schools working together and was
amazed by the children’s energy. They feel that the amount the children are
learning from the songs is just incredible and describe SING-A-LONG as an
amazing system that has lots of potential. One teacher tells us that the
children love THRASS so much that they sing the songs before school, during
break and whenever they get the chance.
Absa
Bank and Pritt, founding principal sponsors of the SING-A-LONG project in
South Africa, were both represented at the concert and pledged their
continued support for THRASS.
Disco hair (Phoneme
Song 27)
My teddy bear and I
(Phoneme Song 33)
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THRASS Family SING-A-LONG
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