Successful schools - Round 3 (2022)

A total of 180 schools and kura were selected for Round 3 of the Creatives in Schools programme. Of the Round 3 projects, four are from kura and four are from special schools.

Please find below a list of the successful schools who have signed their agreements. We will update the list and provide more details of projects as soon as we finalise the remaining agreements with schools.

List published on 23 March 2022

Page last updated: 16 June 2022
Watch this space for future updates.

• Aorere College

  This project will create a student-led digital media production company that will produce an online ‘breakfast-style’ television series.

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• Arapohue School

  This project will have students design, develop, and use an interactive garden space to further explore their connection to the whenua and its sustainability and life cycles.

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• Avonside Girls' High School

  This project is a writing and publishing course with the aim of producing a literary magazine that includes a variety of genres of writing as well as art.

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• Awahono School - Grey Valley

  Students will design, paint, and carve a series of pieces to decorate and enhance their school: a Pare Whakairo Awahono and a series of kōwhaiwhai panels.

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• Banks Avenue School

  Students will create a tiled art installation to adorn their new school premises and represent the school’s past, present, and future.

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• Bayswater School

  This project will use storytelling, the Arts, and digital technology to share local stories and build a greater understanding of the new Aotearoa New Zealand Histories curriculum.

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• Bellevue School (Tauranga)

  This project is a large-scale interactive art installation that represents the journey of Bellevue students and the environment surrounding the school.

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• Birkenhead College

  This project will incorporate a photographic exhibition and accompanying photobook/magazine, aimed at documenting the land and community local to the school.

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• Broadlands School

  This project will produce a collaborative mural and community art installations focusing on the importance of bees in our environment.

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• Cannons Creek School

  This project will create a visual representation of the school’s pepeha and values in the form of a large painted mural.

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• Central Auckland Specialist School

  A multimodal programme that incorporates the philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy and allows students to experience dance, movement, art-making, music, and writing.

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• Clayton Park School

  This program aims to create a number of pou that will depict local stories and culture.

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• Clifton Terrace Model School

  A live performance-based programme that includes drama, dance, music, and visual arts.

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• Dawson School

  This programme aims to work in collaboration with local iwi and their strategic education plan to develop the whakairo skills of students and produce a larger-scale pou installation.

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• Epuni School

  This project aims to collaboratively produce a large-scale mural and a series of pou, reflecting the school’s community, values, and culture.

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• Fairfield College

  This project will engage students in the world of music and give them experience in music composition, recording, events, and performance with a focus on Māori and Pasifika aspects of music.

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• Fitzroy School

  Fitzroy School will design, create, and publicly open a tomokanga entranceway that will welcome learners and whānau from all cultures to their tūrangawaewae.

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• Frankley School

  This project aims to create a collaborative art installation in the form of ceramic pou, with learners creating individual sections representative of themselves and their culture, and those sections being put together to make each pou.

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• Gisborne Boys' High School

  This project will allow an existing choral group to prepare for, rehearse for, and produce a whānau and community showcase.

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• Golden Bay High School

  Working with a mana whenua kaumatua artist, learners will collaborate on and create a Taonga Mural including multiple disciplines of Ngā Toi Māori.

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• Good Shepherd School (Balmoral)

  As part of a wider year-long study of birds and flight, students will work together to create two clay tile murals, incorporating multiple art disciplines and an understanding of the importance of native birds in Te Ao Māori.

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• Grantlea Downs School

  To commemorate the revitalisation of a local stream, two groups of students will produce two major artworks for the school—a mural and a set of sculptures for a sensory sculpture garden.

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• Green Bay Primary School

  This project aims to reconnect students with the earth and soil beneath their feet; they will produce a collaborative mural/sculpture assembled from individual handmade components.

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• Greytown School

  Ākonga will research, plan, and create four large painted murals with a digital companion element; these will create a waharoa (gateway) to the school.

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• Haeata Community Campus

  Rangatahi will explore creating a positive narrative about themselves and their school and town through the medium of photography, displaying their works in a series of exhibitions held at their school and in their community.

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• Hastings Girls' High School - Nga Toi Māori and Tikanga

  Students will learn and practice various skills of Ngā Toi Māori and Polynesian art, creating a pou, gate, and mural as an entranceway to the school.

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• Hastings Girls' High School - Te Ao Haka (in partnership with Hastings Boys’ High School)

• Hastings Intermediate

  This project aims to build relationships between two cohorts that are often lonely and disconnected—youth and older adults—through storytelling and personal connection.

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• Hatea-a-Rangi

  This project will rebuild the waharoa of the school, incorporating the restoration of a tekoteko and allowing ākonga to learn about and practise whakairo.

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• Hornby High School

  This project will give students the opportunity to express themselves through virtual reality creations. These will be exhibited at a cultural extravaganza for whānau and community, both through projection in person and through VR headsets.

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• Kaharoa School

  This programme will allow students to learn about and individually and collaboratively practise the art of glass fusing.

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• Kaiapoi Borough School

  Students will gather materials from their local awa to dye hand-crafted felt works, half of which will contribute to a larger collaborative work and half of which will be taken home for display.

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• Kaiti School

  Students will work with mixed media individually on canvas and collaboratively on ply, creating a large three-piece work to represent the three puhi from the waka Te Ikaroa a Rauru.

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• Kawaha Point School

  Students will create mixed-media representations of the school pepeha, with some of these designs contributing to a collaborative carved mural to be displayed alongside the existing waharoa of the kura.

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• Kelston Boys' High School

  Students will represent local stories and the school sense of ‘brotherhood’ by producing creative writing and individual mural pieces, culminating in three large mural pieces that will be displayed at the school.

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• Kelston Intermediate

  Students will create clay/uku artworks as a way to explore relationships with the whenua, whakapapa, and identity. These artworks will be displayed within the community before becoming part of a display within the school.

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• Kerikeri Primary School

  This project will produce a vibrant mural that promotes equality while celebrating the identity of the kura and rohe.

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• Ko Taku Reo

  This project aims to increase the exposure of Deaf students to the performing arts, giving them the dramatic and performance skills to express their own culturally Deaf perspectives through theatre.

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• Kohukohu School

  This project will see students listening to stories and local history from within the community and translating these into visual interpretations and collaborative wall-sized artworks.

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• Leigh School

  Students will produce an immersive, interactive experience based on the theme of water being essential to life, involving lighting, sound, costumes, body art, and staging.

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• Lincoln Heights School

  This project will provide opportunities for students with disabilities to engage with music and each other through music therapy.

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• Logan Park High School

  This project aims to increase and promote diversity in the New Zealand Music Industry by introducing a wide range of students to different aspects of song writing, recording, and music production.

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• Makara Model School

  This project will give students the opportunity to research a native bird, produce a feather with felting, natural dye, and found objects, and have that feather set in resin and concrete. The final pavers will create a path through the school.

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• Makaraka School

  This project will enable students and the school community to contribute to a school logo and waharoa design that better reflect the kura philosophy and direction.

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• Manutuke School

  Students will further develop their skills in Ngā Toi Māori by creating a series of artwork using whakairo, whatu, and raranga. The artworks will be displayed publicly.

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• Marlborough Boys' College

  Students will participate in workshops in Pacific dance and song, then produce an artistic performance piece that will reflect their own Pasifika identity.

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• Marlborough Girls' College

  Students will develop their Pacific dance and song skills and knowledge, alongside technical and choreographic performance skills, in order to build confidence and connect to their cultural heritage and identities.

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• Marshall Laing School

  A group of students will design, construct, paint, and install a 3D, hard material pīwakawaka as a large art piece to be displayed at the school.

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• Masterton Intermediate

  The school Lift Dance Crew will give students an opportunity to learn, work together, and express themselves through the medium of dance, including hip hop, street, and cultural dance.

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• Matamata Intermediate

  Students will gain knowledge about their school’s Whakapapa in order to produce a whole-school creative performance celebrating Matariki. Each student will be able to develop their skills in a performance area of interest, including kapa haka, costume design, script writing, and set production.

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• McAuley High School

  This project comprises creative poetry writing workshops, performance workshops, and public performances focused on building student creativity and confidence.

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• Mercury Bay Area School

  Students will learn music recording and production techniques from an industry professional and use these skills to record an album of original music performed by students.

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• Midhirst School

  This project is based around local kapa haka traditions and building connections between tamariki and mana whenua.

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• Mission Heights Junior College

  This project will teach Pasifika drumming as a method of self-expression and to encourage students to connect with Pasifika creative practices.

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• Morningside School

  This project will produce four painted mural boards to decorate the school, based on native manu that represent different classes within the school.

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• Motueka South School

  This project will allow a core group of students to participate in the design and production of a large outdoor mural that will depict aspects of the school’s pepeha, location, cultures, and vision.

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• Mt Richmond School

  This project will allow students of all abilities to practise and gain mastery of artistic skills through their own exploration, development, and public exhibition.

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• Mt Roskill Intermediate

  Two projects, Mātaikitaki and Putiputi, will culminate in multidisciplinary public exhibitions. Mātaikitaki is based around observations and diarising, and Putiputi will focus on painting flowers and creating a large mural.

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• Mt Roskill Primary School

  Through Hīkoi Tuatahi | First Steps, 90 tamariki will have the experience of learning and playing a string instrument for the first time, supported and guided by an experienced creative professional.

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• Ngataki School

  This project will allow students, teachers, and the community to explore stories of local tūpuna in a dramatic and creative way, including keeping reflective creative journals.

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• Normandale School

  This project will allow students to create visual representations of what makes their school unique, in the form of a painted mural and a series of pou.

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• Northcote College

  Students will explore concepts of tūrangawaewae and cultural identity through portraiture photography, including using costumes and props, post-production methods, and public exhibition.

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• Northcross Intermediate

  Students will create a mosaic decoration on the concrete planters in the existing Kete Kai Gardens, reflecting and promoting the concepts of Te Whare Tapa Whā.

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• Omanu School

  Students will interpret and tell local stories through print and digital graphic novels that use contemporary and traditional illustration techniques.

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• Opunake High School

  Students and the wider community will take part in the decoration of a Wharenui to be built on the school grounds, after deepening their understanding of local knowledge and history.

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• Oromahoe School

  This project gives students from four local schools the opportunity to complete workshops with professional dancers, choreograph their own performances, and finally perform as a large group as part of a major local festival.

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• Ōtaki School

  This project will allow students, staff, and whānau to experience and co-create music using a wide range of instruments, dance, song, and music-therapy concepts. Students will also have the opportunity to create, learn about, and play kōauau (traditional Māori flutes).

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• Ōtaki College

  Students will experience a professional, Kaupapa Māori theatre process while rehearsing for and performing The Battalion for their community.

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• Otari School

  Students will undertake a 20-week theatre programme that will allow them to develop their skills of stagecraft and confidently perform meaningful stories from their own experiences.

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• Ōtūmoetai Intermediate School

  This project will create an internal mural for the school’s learning centre, focused on imagery from local landscape, stories, and people.

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• Ōtūmoetai Primary School

  A multidisciplinary mural will commemorate important moments in the history of Ōtūmoetai Primary School and its relationship with Ngāi Tamarāwaho.

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• Pakuranga College

  Two artworks—a mural and a kinetic sculpture—will be collaboratively designed and created. They will be placed at the pōwhiri entrance to the school and reflect the past and look towards the future.

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• Palmerston North Intermediate

  This project will produce carvings and kōwhaiwhai to decorate a new whare hau as part of a master outdoor plan that is designed to better reflect the diversity of the school.

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• Papakura High School

  Students will explore 2D art, story, and scientific knowledge by contributing to the art, story, and sound assets and development of an augmented-reality mobile app.

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• Paparoa Street School

  Students will plan, develop, and design 2D and 3D art installations that will reflect the history of the school and represent their Turangawaewae.

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• Parkvale School

  Students will create three large murals to decorate a new entranceway to the school. The art will be produced collaboratively, with a focus on addressing the social and emotional needs of the participating students.

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• Pasadena Intermediate

  This project will develop rumaki Māori students’ abilities to create whatu kākahu (cloaks), while focusing on both the tikanga and reo Māori aspects of the art.

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• Peterhead School

  This project will develop students’ dance, drama, and performance skills through a series of workshops, culminating in a public performance at an arts and events centre.

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• Petone Central School

  Students will go through the creative process of contemporary dance and learn how to identify and express their emotions through movement and dance, finally performing at a whānau event.

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• Porirua East School

  Students will work together to decorate six new pou for Te Mahi Māra – The Collective Garden. Each student’s contribution will represent themselves, their culture, and their whānau.

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• Poroutawhao School

  Students will develop their visual arts skills and collaborate to produce a mural decoration for a public-facing fence. The mural will tell the story of the kura and represent significant parts of the kura identity and environment, including hidden aspects of nature.

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• Pukeoware School

  Students will produce an illustrated book and a large mural on the school grounds, both representing the school and community history.

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• Queen Elizabeth College

  “This is us” will engage the Drama ākonga at Queen Elizabeth College in the creation, rehearsal, and public performance of a new play.

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• Rawene School

  Students will work together to design and create a set of contemporary pou whenua to reflect school values, community relationships, the environment, tauiwi, and the standing of tangata whenua.

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• Richmond Road School

  Students in the Mua I Malae Samoan bilingual unit will learn more about Siva Samoa, practising dancing, singing, and language skills.

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• Rosehill College

  Students will practise hip hop and street dance styles while learning more about the cultures that they originated from and preparing for a public performance. The project aims to involve students from other schools in the future and provide a way for students to make connections and form relationships within hip hop and street dance communities.

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• Rosehill Intermediate

  Students will gain knowledge of all aspects of clay-making, from preparation to firing and glazing. Workshops will also be held for whānau, teachers, and community, and student work will be displayed at a school event day.

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• Rotokawa School

  This project will produce a mural, including kōwhaiwhai and whakairo, to represent local stories, history, and landmarks. A tuakana/teina model will be used for collaboration between students, whānau, staff, and community).

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• Ruakaka School

  This project aims to co-create a multimedia mural reflecting the local curriculum and area.

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• Shannon School

  Students will form connections with local community and environment and use their knowledge to create murals to decorate the school, representing the history and environment of Shannon.

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• St Anthony's School (Seatoun)

  This project will create a piece of visual art using a variety of materials and skills. It will represent all the different cultures present in the kura, with collaboration between students and whānau of the same culture.

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• St Joseph's School (Ashburton)

  This project will continue an ongoing music programme, bringing professional tutors in to develop students’ music skills while at the same time giving teachers an opportunity to upskill in accordance with the NZ music curriculum.

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• St Joseph's School (Pukekohe)

  Students will develop their visual arts skills and contribute to a collaborative heritage mural that will be displayed at the school.

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• St Joseph's School (Upper Hutt)

  Students will gather knowledge and experiences from their local area and create a collaborative mural that represents the school as their tūrangawaewae.

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• St Mary's Catholic School (Avondale)

  This project will produce two painted murals (the first in the school) that will enhance the environment and represent the story, history, and values of the school and its students.

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• St Oran's College

  This collaborative stage work will involve students from four Wellington schools who will examine their own lives through investigating female characters from Shakespeare plays. The students will work at their separate colleges before coming together to perform publicly in a short season on stage at a well-known local theatre.

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• Sunnyvale School

  This project aims to create visual pepeha to represent the school’s rohe and stories.

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• Tahatai Coast School

  Students will work on different genres and techniques of visual arts, with a select group working on a mural that represents Tauranga Moana. All artworks will be exhibited for whānau and community to view.

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• Tahuna Normal Intermediate

  This project comprises multiple works – a multimedia mural, static sculptures, and kinetic sculpture – that will represent local taonga, environment, Ngā Hau e Whā, and features of the southern sky.

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• Tamaki College

  Students will work with a team from a digital technology company to produce multimedia content for an app, focusing on sharing stories from and about specifical local places.

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• Taonui School

  This project will allow students to experience glass art and produce their own pieces to display in a gallery evening for whānau and community.

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• Tapawera Area School

  Students will design mini 3D waharoa as part of a wider project to represent Māori culture and connections by installing a large waharoa and a series of kaitiaki pou within the school grounds.

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• Tauranga Primary School

  Students will research local history, legends, and waiata in order to produce a pūrākau for the kura, culminating in an illustrated hardback book containing artwork by all students and teachers.

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• Te Aroha College

  Students will practise and give five live performances of the musical “Grease” for invited audiences from the local community.

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• Te Horo School (Whangārei)

  This project will produce two large collaborative art pieces, involving painting and traditional Māori art forms, which reflect cultural narratives from local whenua, tīpuna, and history.

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• Te Kura o Hato Hohepa Te Kamura

  This project will create an iwi-style mara hupara, allowing students to reconnect with traditional ideas of kaitiakitanga, manaakitanga, and physical fitness.

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• Te Pi'ipi'inga Kākano Mai I Rangiātea

  This project will produce a large-scale fence mural representing the school and local pūrākau. It will be a bold, modern Toi Māori work, including painted whakairo-style patterns.

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• Te Poi School

  Students will research the story of Mahinarangi and depict her story and journey in the form of two large painted murals.

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• Te Rōhutu Whio

  This project will give students the opportunity to explore symbolism, local oral histories, and multiple art forms including traditional mahi toi and practices surrounding them.

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• Te Tipu Whenua o Pā Harakeke

  This project will allow young parents to explore Toi Māori forms that they are interested in, with opportunities to exhibit their work at whānau evenings.

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• Te Wainui a Rua

• Tīaho Primary School

  This project will allow tamariki to explore their whakapapa, language, identity, and culture through the arts, under the guidance of an artistic great and highly respected member of the community.

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• Timatanga Community School

  Children aged 5 to 13 will explore the world’s trash problem and use their knowledge and found objects to design, prototype, and create original fashion.

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• Titirangi Primary School

  Students will research and produce a film using multiple disciplines and reflecting the long history of the school and area, as well as the students’ hopes for the future. The film will be premiered to the public at a local hall and published online.

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• TKKM o Otepou

  This collaborative project will produce contemporary Māori art pieces that reflect the school’s values, local stories, and Māori gods.

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• Upper Atiamuri School

  Students will create 3D models of people and use them to help design and create collaborative mural panels to represent local stories and history. They will also display the models and use them to tell the ‘story of the story’ – the process and story of creating the project itself.

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• Waerenga-O-Kuri School

  This project aims to represent local history and school values through visual media.

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• Waiheke Primary School

  This project will build on an existing programme to develop students’ storytelling skills, particularly around environmental education, ‘Garden to Table’, and local food stories.

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• Waikaka School

  This project will form a kapa haka group with students from five schools, and they will work towards creating their own haka to represent the local area as well as practising to perform at Mīharo Murihiku Polyfest 2022.

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• Waikanae School

  All students will work together to produce a large, collaborative mural that represents the school’s pepeha.

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• Waikowhai Intermediate

  This project will encourage students to connect with each other and their communities as well as express their emotions through art, colour, and printmaking.

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• Waikowhai Intermediate

  Students will gain knowledge and skills around classical music and performance and find their own voices in the process. The programme will culminate with a public performance that will also involve whānau and the wider community.

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• Waitākere College

  Students will express themselves around their school through dance and movement, capture that movement using still images and video, and exhibit those still and moving images at a local art gallery.

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• Waitati School

  This project will produce a ceramic art installation to be displayed within the community, showing the past to inform the future.

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• Waiuku College

  Students will gain knowledge and skills in traditional and contemporary Māori art forms as well as graphic design technology, producing 3D models of marae, their own digital creations, and collaborative designs for new Pou for the Kura Whare.

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• Wellington High School and Com Ed Centre

  Students will build a stronger understanding of modern Māori performance through theatre, building on a strong culture of more traditional Māori performance mediums.

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• Wesley Primary School

  Students will learn and develop a range of traditional and contemporary art and design skills in order to create a range of art pieces to be displayed within the school. The project will focus on Aro-Tākaro (implements of play) as well as relevant tikanga and kaupapa, and connections to whenua and hauora.

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• West Melton School

  Students will collaborate to design, preview, and test creative ideas before turning one main idea into a large mural that represents the school’s DRIVER values.

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• Western Springs College

  Students will learn about garment construction as well as environmental aspects of the garment industry. They will plan, design, and construct their own upcycled garments to be displayed at an installation showcase.

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• Whangārei Girls' High School

• Wilson School

  This project will allow all students at the school to create and publicly exhibit their own art in conjunction with a local art studio.

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• Winchester School (Palmerston North)

  Students will develop their storytelling and performance skills across a wide range of mediums, working towards a final ‘pick-a-path’ style performance. Chapbooks containing student writing and drawings will be a tangible take-home for students.

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• Witherlea School

  This project will allow small groups of students to work with a creative to learn how to better self-regulate and express themselves through movement and theatre. At the end of the programme, they will hold a performance to show their new skills.

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