Aparima College
Year 9 students created a well-being walk that featured sculpture and poetry and linked the Riverton Arts Centre with Aparima College.
Project status: Completed
Thirty-four projects were funded in Round 1 of the Creatives in Schools programme, out of which 33 projects have finished. Due to COVID-19 lockdown, schools and kura had the option to extend their projects until the end of Term 2, 2021.
Evaluation of Round 1 projects is now complete. The evaluation found that Creatives in Schools makes a worthwhile and valuable contribution to sharing knowledge and offering creative practices in schools. It has made an early difference to the students and ākonga, teachers and kaiako, creative practitioners, parents and whānau involved. You can find detailed Evaluation reports here.
Page last updated: 16 June 2022
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Year 9 students created a well-being walk that featured sculpture and poetry and linked the Riverton Arts Centre with Aparima College.
Project status: Completed
This project focuses on using drama conventions to improve learning outcomes, especially in literacy, through developing oral language.
Project status: In progress
Students and families shared their story, knowledge, and aspirations using digital technologies and the creative arts.
Project status: Completed
Students created a series of painted murals that benefited the school’s environment.
Project status: Completed
Female students were guided through basic skills in a variety of drawing practices and facilitated a collaborative project to create sculptural work to enhance the school environment.
Project status: Completed
Students, teachers, and the community created and performed a series of plays inspired by the stories of Maui and other similar heroes.
Project status: Completed
Students created, rehearsed, and performed a new play around the idea of well-being and what it means to be happy and healthy.
Project status: Completed
Students worked with a master carver in the creative process of designing and carving pou whenua.
Project status: Completed
This project is a collaboration between students from the girls' and boys' colleges and two local artists in a Pasifika performing arts programme.
Project status: Completed
Students developed a greater understanding of the school values and represented these through different mediums as they created a mural for a well-being garden.
Project status: Completed
Students used butterflies to explore the concept of transformation from our local inquiry curriculum and integrated this with students’ stories.
Project status: Completed
Students will each create their own personalised museum guidebook of the taonga from the Okains Bay Museum collection.
Project status: Completed
Students will design and create a number of small whāre to make an outdoor play space.
Project status: Completed
Year 7/8 students will choreograph many of the dances in the junior high school musical production.
Project status: In progress
Students researched the rich stories of the awa (Patea River) and express them in murals installed in the school and community.
Project status: Completed
Students will created a mural that deepened knowledge of the kura’s kaupapa and community values by co-constructing a visual representation of the school’s community – past, present, and future.
Project status: Completed
Students across all year levels learned skill, protocols, and processes around Māori weaving.
Project status: Completed
Students created a ‘HEART space’ featuring artworks that link back to Russell School’s HeART values.
Project status: Completed
Students created three mosaic artworks within the theme of our inquiry unit Ka Mua, Ka Muri.
Project status: Completed
Ten schools worked with the creative to learn Pacific dance and song performed in school and at the Marlborough Polyfest.
Project status: Completed
Students and teachers were supported to improve literacy learning outcomes using drama conventions.
Project status: Completed
Students from Taita aged between 15–18 will participate in multiple art and cultural wānanga.
Project status: In progress
Nine rural schools and three early childhood centres each produced 12 pieces of art, which formed collaborative pieces displayed in each school.
Project status: Completed
Year 8 students created artworks that spoke of identity and served as a leaping-off point for drama collaboration.
Project status: Completed
Students will design and create street-light art sculpture.
Project status: In progress
Students will learn tikanga and reo about whatu and create a collaboratively woven cloak using contemporary materials.
Project status: In progress
Year 7 and 8 boys developed language and other skills in visual arts, animation, and film, so they could express their ideas through creative mediums.
Project status: Completed
Students worked with the art form of raranga/weaving to create a piece that represents the vision of Tuahiwi.
Project status: Completed
Years 6, 7, and 8 students were empowered to create a textile wall hanging that represented who they are today, acknowledging their cultural heritage and honouring the local environment.
Project status: Completed
Students developed their cultural narrative, with the final outcome being a visual depiction of this (2D and 3D).
Project status: Completed
Year 10 students filmed and photographed themselves in a booth wearing disguises they created.
Project status: Completed
Students with disability and special needs took part in circus classes to help them experience something new and different.
Project status: Completed
Students wrote, produced, and performed an original theatre work based on the evacuation of Wakefield village due to a massive forest fire in 2019.
Project status: Completed
Three schools were introduced to ballet and dance through workshops, activities, and performances.
Project status: Completed