Sharing Assemblies moved from in-person performances to streamed presentations. You can see entire Sharing Assemblies with the links below:
In January of 2021 we would have presented our Shakespeare performance. For all of January though we were at home with online learning. We had to look for a new way to present our show.
Although we missed having the audience there, new performance opportunities presented themselves! This dance was choreographed to reflect the dancers' feelings about the pandemic and their sense of isolation. The music was composed and performed by the Grade 6 winds class.
Every Grade 5 strings class since Pearson became an arts school over 30 years ago has performed "Twinkle, Twinkle" as their first piece. A moment usually shared with their parents in concert. Although parents were not in the room, the tradition still continued!
Playing wind instruments at school were not allowed, so classes were held after school. Every night a different instrument section of the ensemble learned their part through video meetings. Eventually each student recorded their own part and sent it in so a compilation video could be produced. A tremendous amount of work for both student and teacher so that our wind program could keep going!
In Sharing Assemblies parents would see a selection of pieces performed by the students. With the move to streamed Sharing Assemblies you now have a chance to see students perform in the keyboard lab!
Throughout the pandemic singing at school also was not allowed. We had an opportunity to record and share pieces using an online recording studio and also to perform through solo vocal videos presented to our class.
Usually parents have the opportunity at various points in the year to wander through the school and see the amazing amount of visual art that is up on the walls. That opportunity was not available, because no visitors were allowed in the school. Visual Art has now been included in our Sharing Assemblies. At least a small portion of what is displayed at the school can be viewed.
At the end of the 2019-2020 school year students from all grades were able to join together for this heart-felt expression of what had been lost in the last part of their school year.
Graduation was not what the students had expected. A "Drive-In" grad was what was allowed. Here is their celebration.
Mr. Cairns also produced a special version of this video with an original song called "A Better Time."