SOUNZwrite Education Guides

Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare has many activities which link to other Arts disciplines: Drama, Dance and Visual Arts, as well as Science, Social Studies and English. Each activity has suggested learning outcomes and assessment ideas.

Learning experiences include:

• rhythm and performance with Gareth Farr's Ruaumoko
• how to play a guitar with Split Enz
• musical texture with Clouds Over Pirongia by John Rimmer
• how music makes you feel with Melancholia by Anthony Ritchie
• the music of Tokelau through the Te Vaka Jigsaw
• score reading with Other Echoes by Eve de Castro- Robinson
• how your body responds to music with Judy Bailey's Now I'm Walkin'
• taonga puoru with Tumatakokiri by Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns

Education Series (NCEA Revision)

Originally, for Years 11-13, nine SOUNZwrite guides were produced each featuring in detail one work by a New Zealand composer. The guides were written between 1997 and 2001 by Cheryl Camm and are being widely used by teachers in more than half of New Zealand's high schools.

In 2005, with funding from a number of branches of NZSME (now MENZA), the Lion Foundation and Unison Trust , SOUNZ was able to undertake a substantial revision of these popular education guides for Years 11-13. This revision will make them more suitable for use with NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement). Appropriate assessment activities and schedules and updated resources have been integrated with the existing background material on the composer, composition and analysis material and imaginative ideas for classroom activities. In addition, a re-ordering of the material to fit more closely with the new curriculum will ensure that these valuable guides will continue to be important resources in schools. Karen Carter, who is completing the work for SOUNZ says that her aim is, "to take the original materials written by Cheryl Camm and adapt them for learning to enable flexibility and ease of assessment for NCEA."