Ellie is a fully qualified and experienced primary teacher, literacy specialist, piano teacher and composer, writer of children’s plays and performance poems, music education specialist, and a classroom management problem solver/consultant.

To fit in all these qualifications and experience means she is no longer a young chick but a wise older lady with a lot to give to those still travelling the road.

Education

• Grafton NSW High School
• Wollongong Teachers’ College – Primary: two years full time
• Sydney Conservatorium of Music – Secondary Music and English: four years full time (Dip.Mus.Ed. with Merit)
• Piano Teacher Accreditation – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Choral Experiences

• Member of various choirs from an early age;
• Sydney Opera House choir and orchestra performances conducted by Richard Gill;
• Sydney Philharmonia Choir;
• Performing Arts Association Choir, Coffs Harbour NSW.

Music Books and Compositions – click for details

• Accurate First Time Piano Scales (www.pianoscales.com.au)
• We All Live in Australia – from the Dreamtime to the present time, we honour and cherish Australia because it is our home
• Earth Song – We are riders together on this fragile planet – SATB a capella
• When Your Pants Begin to Go – Words Henry Lawson
• Internet Song
• It’s Time to Sing! (Children’s Songbook/Reader; Teaching Manual)
• Learn to Read Music by Drawing – workbook
• Music Lesson and Practice Logbook

School Musicals (contact Ellie for details)

• The Fairy Who Wouldn’t Fly – based on Australian story by Pixie O’Harris
• Over the Moon
• Flying to the Rescue
• A Tight Spot for Santa
• Riders – a multicultural musical