Specialist Classes
Art
Students develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness as they manipulate and transform visual, tactile, and spatial ideas to solve problems, both individually and collaboratively. They also experiment with materials to create various types of art.
Dance and Drama
We use a variety of stimuli to teach students how to create, analyze, and refine their own choreography. Students will come to realize how dance fits into our school focus through Taha Tinana – Physical Wellbeing and Taha Whānau – Social Wellbeing.
Food Tech
Students will learn how to make positive food choices, including how to prepare and consume healthy food. We cater to all students’ food requirements, whether religious, related to allergies, or intolerances, and we encourage students to practice at home and share their learnings.
Hard Tech
Students will learn how to use tools and machinery to build with wood and other materials, and develop skills in construction planning and management. Year 8 students will apply their creativity to design and build a tea-light candle holder.
Music
Music is about having a go. Students learn how an instrument helps their brain and develop basic theory/harmony knowledge. They will create music using real and digital instruments using Ukuleles, Keyboards, Body percussion and Garage Band.
Science
In Science, students learn how to seek and use scientific information to debate issues and make decisions for effective actions in their own lives. Year 8 students will explore UV radiation and its impact on human skin, considering sun damage.