And Update on The Around the World Scale Challenge 2019

Term one has just zoomed past and currently I am looking at our Easter Egg supply and wondering if it will last past Easter Weekend… My guess is that I probably need to do another trip to the supermarket today!
 
Just a quick update on how the Round the World Scale Challenge went this year… check out the chart:

I was really impressed that most students really rose to the occasion – even for some of the younger beginners who have never done scales before, a lot of them have managed to go “half way around the world”, with one particular student Mason, age 6, has done separate hands of all 12 major keys in 10 weeks!
 

In total, we had 16 students from the studio who completed at least 12 keys (for the grade 5+ students they had to do the major and relative minor scales), and I have never had so many students emailing me half way through their week asking for more scales to learn! A couple of my adult students also ended up doing a lot of the scales, except they were not as interested in stickers!

We actually had four grand winners this term, with all four students completing the “race” on week 9. Congratulations to Benedict, Annie, Fiona and Felix!

Here is a picture of one of the race winners Annie, proudly posing with her prizes!

Cost of the challenge:

• Stickers – as you can see it did require a lot of sticker use. I recommend getting a value pack from Kmart or The Warehouse ($3-$5)
  
• Grand prize for winners: I purchased small stationary items such as notebooks, stickers and pens + erasers with musical themes on them. For the four winners it added up to around $20 altogether.
  
• Easter Eggs for all who completed the race in term one: For the 12 students who completed the race in week 10 and 11, they all got a couple of East eggs as their reward ($20). I gave left over Easter eggs to husband who gladly took care of them.
  

Enjoy the Easter Break everyone!
Melody