Mineral Springs Middle Students Among Those Performing at Magnet and Choice Showcase

Students test their designs at the GamePipe Lab's showcase

By Press release submission

Nov 8, 2021

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools issued the following announcement on November 2.

The Magnet and Choice Showcase will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 6 in the Education Building at the Carolina Classic Fairgrounds. Enter through Gate 7.

To learn out more about the showcase, go to Magnet and Choice.

Piano 88By Kim Underwood

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

NOVEMBER 2, 2021 – Noorie Lovett is in the eighth grade at Mineral Springs Middle. She will be one of many students demonstrating their talents at the Magnet and Choice Showcase on Saturday Nov. 6.

Noorie will be playing the piano.

She has been taking piano with Kim Bounds, who teaches music at Mineral Springs Middle, since she was in the sixth grade and is now taking the advanced piano class. Noorie also has a piano at home, which enabled her to play while students were attending school remotely.

Noorie thoroughly enjoys playing the piano.

“It’s very soothing and most of the notes are easy to understand once you get the hang of it,” she said.

“I will play anything as long as I can.”

At the showcase, she plans to play a piece called “Standing in the Need of Prayer.”

So she will look especially sharp, she’s thinking about wearing a tuxedo.

Noorie also sings in the chorus at Mineral Springs. She likes to draw, too.

Piano 89Bounds is a great teacher, Noorie said.

“She is very encouraging,” she said.

One thing Noorie appreciates is that Bounds gives students room to work things out on their own. Then, if they need assistance, she steps right up.

This is Bounds’ 11th year teaching music at Mineral Springs Middle. Altogether, she has been a music teacher for 26 years.

In teaching music, she wants students to move at their own pace.

She is happy if music becomes an integral part of their lives. Her more immediate goal, though, is providing them with a creative outlet and “the opportunity to have music part of their life.”

At the Showcase, she will have students of all levels – beginning, intermediate, advanced – playing to give listeners a sense of the different steps along the way.

Eighth-grader Emon Grier is another student in the advanced piano class who plans to play at the showcase.

Play 56Like Noorie, he has been studying piano with Bounds since he was in sixth grade.

“It’s fun learning music I can play,” he said.

He also enjoys listening to other students play.

Emon plans to continue taking piano through high school.

At the Showcase, he will play “Alouette.”

Emon’s other creative outlets include drawing. One time, it might be a car. Another time it could be a plant.

“Anything my mind thinks of,” Emon said.

Emon enjoys studying with Bounds.

“She is playful, and she helps a lot,” he said. “And she is funny.”

Bounds first started playing the piano when she was 3 or 4. Her mother taught piano, and, with a piano right there, Bounds would sit down and try to learn how to play on her own.

Piano 23When it was time for formal lessons, her mother gave them for a bit. They soon discovered, though, that it was better for both mother and daughter if Bounds took piano lessons from other piano teachers.

She continues to savor playing piano.

“Playing is an outlet for me,” Bound said.

Bounds also plays other instruments, including the flute. Piano and flute were the instruments she focused on when she headed to Appalachian State University to major in music.

Her father was a Baptist minister, and she played and sang at church growing up. She still does. These days, the family attends Knollwood Baptist.

Bounds and her husband, Thomas, have three children. Their oldest, Lilly, graduated from Reagan High first. Eli graduated recently, and Owen still attends Reagan.

At the Magnet and Choice Showcase, people can learn more about schools throughout the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system.

“Our goal is to showcase all of the school options across the district,” said Dr. Karen Roseboro, the Chief Officer for Choice and Magnet Schools.

“We highlight all the schools and what makes them unique,” said Magan Wiggins, the Choice and Magnet Specialist.

In addition to the students there to perform, other students be on hand to talk about what makes the school they attend special.

2021 - 2022 School Magnet & Choice Showcase Performances

School

Performance

10:00am - 10:15am

10:20am - 10:35am

Mineral Springs Elementary

Art, sing, dance

10:45am - 11:00 am