Elizabeth currently co-ordinates the Performing Arts program at Arden Anglican school, Epping. She has sixteen years experience teaching music in various high schools across the state including public, systemic catholic and private school systems. She has a masters degree in music from NSW university graduating in 2001.

Elizabeth has been a member of and actively involved with the NSW Orff Association since the late eighties, has participated in an Orff Summer school in Salzburg and recently completed the Orff level one course. She applies an integrated Orff approach to the teaching of secondary music and is interested in developing this in the context of the new stage 5 syllabus. She is passionate about teaching her craft and believes that the Orff approach has helped her immensely to bring a positive musical experience to the majority of her students.

Orff and the Middle School

Session Abstract

How do you teach simple yet interesting rhythmic and melodic material to a non music reading, reluctant yet fairly cool year 6, 7 or 8 student? Perhaps this session will help you or at least give you some tools to use with your own students.
Using an Orff approach incorporating movement, body percussion, visual stimulus, some unusual sound sources and interesting folk tunes derived from Bulgaria and Africa, we will explore how to develop simple yet musical arrangements and/or compositions along with strategies to assess the students involved in this music making.