Junior School

This term, our school-wide focus is on the arts.  This includes music, drama, dance and visual arts.  As part of our focused learning on visual arts, we've been practicing observational sketching.  Our motto for this is look, draw, look.   We're not aiming for perfect, polished pictures - instead, we're training our eyes to notice the lines, shapes, patterns, and tiny details in the objects around us.  This careful looking is a superpower that helps us become stronger visual artists!  

Middle School

The middle school team has been focused on the arts this term.  In room 11 we recently explored and learned about the different elements of dance - body, space, time, energy and relationships.  Here we are mirroring each other’s movements which was “funny and weird” and brought out the giggles in us!

Senior School

Our tamariki are excited about their upcoming performance of 'The Broken Bond’. We have been practising hard at school, and we know many of you have been helping out with learning lines at home as well. With less than a week to go before we perform, we thought it was timely to share some information about the production's progress and request a few things to ensure everything runs smoothly at our end.

We have two acting casts performing, one cast each day. The children who are not in the acting cast on a day will be doing other jobs during that production, such as dancing, singing, tech support or organising props. This means that all children will be required to be present for all of the performances. Both casts will be performing a matinee at 10:45 am in front of the school, which parents/grandparents are also welcome to attend, and then an evening performance at 7:00 pm. The show is expected to go for approximately 90 minutes.

The show dates are as follows:
Acting Cast 1 - Tuesday 19 August
Acting Cast 2 - Wednesday 20 August

As the evening show starts at 7:00 pm, we ask that all children be dropped off at school at 6:00 pm to the doors of Room 23. They will stay inside during this time and be cared for by our teachers. This will give us 1 hour to get everyone into costumes, makeup, and ready to perform. This will also allow enough time after school for your child to go home, have a break and eat some dinner before returning for their evening performance. It is important that there is a caregiver to pick up each child at 8:30 pm, after the evening show, at the doors of Room 23.

Tickets can be purchased at the door; the cost is $2 per person or $5 for a family.