Welcome Message

Greetings from Naveen Cabral, the Primary music teacher for Grades 4 and 5. I have also been assigned the responsibility of a Performance Co-ordinator in the Primary, under which I do run the Primary Musical and the Festival of Choirs. I am very excited to be entering my 13th year in teaching, 11 of which have been with the best of PYP schools. I play the guitar, recorder, keyboard/piano, xylophones and a few other instruments but my forte lies in singing. In addition to my strong PYP experience, I recently completed my Grade 8 Vocals in Trinity - Rock and Pop. I have also completed various other music certifications through the Trinity College of Music. I have been trained by quite a few professionals in different instruments and musical technique. In addition to the Music Together certification that I have, I have attended quite a few IB workshops (PYP). I do perform as a musician in my spare time, as a vent to my outburst of passion and love for music.

I believe my education and degree in my career has mainly been my teaching experience, which has helped me acquire the best from my students as we worked together to create great music and events. My aim will always be to help the students acquire musical skills and knowledge that will help them improve as an overall personality towards a better future for our world.

Sunday 3 December 2017

Music Site - Made by a Grade 5 student

Sohum Khandelwal has made this website (pasted below) right from scratch and he has been successful in putting in an octave range notes for a few instruments, and a few rhythm sounds. Go try it out please. Way to go boy!

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/173006031/

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Choir Performances - December 2017

1) Festival of Choirs - December 6th (9 am to 10.30 am) 

This event has few other schools participating like JNIS, Ascend, ASB and our JVLR campus students. 

2) Performance at Oberoi Mall (15th of December at 4 pm)

We are very excited to announce our next performance at Oberoi Mall, in the lobby. 

3) Performance for the Primary Students - 
(20th of December in the Auditorium)

We will have performances for our primary students at the following times in the auditorium. 

10 am - For students from SKG through Grade 2

11 am - For students from Grade 3 through 5

An exciting month packed with performances for the choir and the Primary Music Department. 

Monday 25 September 2017

End of class performances - Beatboxing!

One of our Grade 5 students - Aaryan, decides to exhibit his beatboxing skills in class. He is producing a pitched sound, as well as percussion sounds together at the same time. Cool ain't it!!


Wednesday 6 September 2017

Song Activity - Grade 4

In music class, we are in our first Unit – Melody and Vocal Exploration. As we continue to explore about how we use our voices as a medium to express ourselves, we are also trying to understand more about songs that were carried across generations by our ancestors, with the use of their voices. Here is an assignment that we would want the students to complete. The students are each requested to email me a song sung by any of their acquaintances/friends/relatives. Some of the points to be borne in mind about this song are listed below:- • The song could be sung by anyone but the student • The song has to be at least fifty years old and can be in any language. If in another language, a small write-up/explanation on what the song is communicating, would help. • The song needs to be emailed to me @ Naveen.cabral@oberoi-is.org • In the subject, kindly type “Song Activity – Grade 4” • Please email these songs before 13th September’17 • Please attach the song and do not share it from the drive account. • The format for saving the audio/video file should be ClassSectionStudentfullname For eg. A student Aariv from 4D would send the file as 4DAarivMakhijani.*** If a student for any reason cannot complete the above assignment, that is absolutely fine as we could share and work together on other assignments that are submitted.

Wednesday 23 August 2017

Composer Of The Month!

Music composers have created some of the most outstanding works known to us and we have cherished those pieces, some even for a more than a 100 years now. But how many of us actually do know these composers or even their names! I have decided to introduce an activity called "Composer of the month" wherein I will put up a few facts about a composer in the music room and the students need to find out WHO the composer is. They can drop in a chit with their name, class and name of the composer, in a small basket kept in the room. At the end of the month we will look up to find out which class has managed to get most correct answers. This class will be featured in the next month as we will give away the name of the last composer put up, and then have details of another composer put up for the students to find out!


Tuesday 15 August 2017

Primary Musical

Greetings from the Primary Music Department!

Now that school is back in session, we excitedly announce that it's time to start thinking about the Primary Musical! Here are some important things you need to know in order to get involved: 

a) The Primary Musical will run through the entire academic year with the final performances being held on May 10th and 11th, 2018. 

b) The Primary Musical will be conducted along with the ECAs, which includes a break in January 2018. Because it is a year long activity, the procedure for registering for the Primary Musical will be different and ONE time. 

c) Rehearsals will be held each Thursday, and will start with the other ECAs in September. 

d)  When we resume in Feb'18 along with the ECAs, we may need an additional day in the week other than Thursdays, which would mean rehearsals twice a week from then. 

e) While we would like to accept every child into the musical, we must limit it to a total of 90 students from Grades 3, 4 and 5. That is why we will follow an audition process.  To enlist for the audition process, you need to fill the form at this link. Please note that we have many other musical activities offered as part of the ECAs for you to consider as well.

f) We will NOT audition any child who has not filled in this audition form.

g) The decision of the Music Department in the selection process for auditions is FINAL. If there is any reason for someone to request for feedback on why a student has not made it through, we will give the feedback to the student alone. 

h) The Audition form will close on Friday 18th August, 9 am. The material for the auditions will be sent out via the email addresses submitted on the audition form on Friday before end of school day.

i) There will be a nominal fees of Rs. 2500/- charged per student for the entire duration of the activity and this will be collected in the form of a cheque addressed to the school. 

j) The auditions will be conducted on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of August and we will communicate the venue and timings for the auditions to the same email addresses we have received on the form. 

Please feel free to contact any of the Primary music teachers for clarifications needed on any of the above information. 

Melissa Henderson.
Shilpa Kamath.
Ginelle Gracias.
Vishrut Sinha.
Naveen Cabral.

Class Performance!

            One of the initiatives taken for this year is Class Performances! An opportunity that lets students perform in class. For this, I have put up a sign on the back of my door to the music room that says, "I would like to perform before end of class today". The students need to put up a post-it below this sign when they come to music class and that will help me plan and wind up my class a few minutes earlier before time, so as to provide that time for the performance.

            This initiative has been discussed with the students and they have been informed that they can use this opportunity to sing/dance/play an instrument as and when they feel they are ready to perform. This will help the students in their presentation/performance skills to a smaller audience and give us teachers an understanding of their skills in order to help the students take it further.



Monday 7 August 2017

Welcome!

Welcome back to another fabulous year at OIS! It is with great pleasure that we acknowledge the fact that OIS now has not 1 but 2 campuses.

The students seem to be as excited as ever, which makes it even easier for us teachers to get the ball rolling. We have a lot of plans to keep this year as interesting as possible and request you to stay hooked on to find out more and be a part of this fun roller coaster ride.