Arts

Arts Learning Area comprises both Performance Arts and Visual Art.

Performance Arts

Dance

Dance is expressive movement that has intent, purpose, and form. In dance education, students integrate thinking, moving, and feeling. They explore and use dance elements, vocabularies, processes, and technologies to express personal, group, and cultural identities, to convey and interpret artistic ideas, and to strengthen social interaction. Students develop literacy in dance as they learn about, and develop skills in, performing, choreographing, and responding to a variety of genres from a range of historical and contemporary contexts.

In Dance we teach a variety of genres including hip hop, jazz, tap, contemporary, modern, sasa, bollywood and more. Students also have the opportunity to choreograph their own dance, this may be in groups, pairs, alone or even on other dancers. All dancers also have the opportunity to perform at the annual Dance Showcase.

All Dance queries to Mrs Ogden. 

Drama

Drama is a part of the New Zealand Arts Curriculum. By engaging in Drama students develop the ability to effectively communicate through both written and oral language and through gesture and body language, qualities essential in becoming integral members of society. Studying Drama provides an environment in which the student develops in self-confidence, in expressing their ideas to others, and learning to work as a team member. By engaging in the practical and written aspects of the course, students are encouraged to express their own creative ideas and develop strategies of self-discipline to realise their full potential. 

In Drama there are three practical assessments at each level and one external written paper at the end of the year. The senior Drama students also view a live theatre performance during the year to develop visual literacy in preparation for the external written paper.  Each senior level performs a class production which is presented to parents, friends and the school community in the evening in the Kaipatiki Theatre.  

All Drama queries to Mrs Ogden. 

Music

In order to gain entry to Music at NCEA Level 1, students must:

• successfully complete the preparatory course in Year 10, and/or
• demonstrate balanced performance and theory skills that reflect at least two years of Music studies through school instruction or private tutoring.

Each NCEA course is divided into two areas: 

• Practical Music – involves achievement standards in solo and group music performance and  music composition.
• Academic Music – consists of musicology papers that cover studies of musical works, advanced music theory with harmony, arrangement, and music research. 

 Music technology Unit Standards are available through the STAR learning programme (courses).  More information can be obtained from the Careers Department.

 At NCEA Level 2-3 students design their own individual study programmes with a selection of achievement standards that reflect their interest and musical ability. 

It is vital for students’ overall development that they continue learning a musical instrument with either an itinerant or private teacher and participate in a range of extra-curricular music activities available at the school. 

Music is a university approved subject. 

NCEA Level 2 certificate is required for most music-related tertiary courses.  

All music queries to Mr Kus, HOD Music.

Visual Art

In Visual Art, students explore, refine, and communicate ideas visually as they connect thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings to create outcomes and respond to the works of others. 

Students develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness as they manipulate and transform visual, tactile, and spatial ideas to solve problems. They will explore experiences, stories, abstract concepts, social issues, and needs, both individually and collaboratively. They will experiment with materials, using processes and conventions to develop their visual enquiries and create art works. 

Students will also examine art works, bringing their own experiences, sharing their responses, and generating multiple interpretations. Meaning making is further informed by the investigation of the contexts in which art works are created, used, and valued. 

Visual Art is about exploring different techniques and mediums in order to develop a personal style and approach to art making unique to each individual. Throughout their time in Visual Art at Glenfield, students can expect to experiment with a wide range of media, including but limited to: pencil, acrylic paint, watercolour, impasto, spray paint, woodblock printmaking, Photoshop and Illustrator. 

All enquiries to Mr Montreal.

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