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Art 100
Art 100
Course Description:
Students have the opportunity to work both independently and collaboratively to construct meaning, produce works, and respond to and value others’ contributions. Students will explore tangata whenuatanga, their own cultures and identities through art making. We encourage students to pursue interests such as painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography.
Recommended Prior Learning: 10 Art or HOD approval
Contact Teacher: Kirsty Lewry
Outcomes
Endorsement available: Yes
Internal credits: 10
External credits: 10
Total credits: 20
L1 Literacy credits: 0
Numeracy credits: 0
Possible next steps: Level 2 Painting, Level 2 Photography
Painting 200
Painting 200
Course Description:
Students have the opportunity to work both independently and collaboratively to construct meaning, produce works, and respond to and value others’ contributions. Students will explore tangata whenuatanga, their own cultures and identities through art making. We encourage students to pursue interests such as painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography.
Recommended Prior Learning: 10 Art or HOD approval
Contact Teacher: Kirsty Lewry
Outcomes
Endorsement available: Yes
Internal credits: 10
External credits: 10
Total credits: 20
L1 Literacy credits: 0
Numeracy credits: 0
Possible next steps: Level 2 Painting, Level 2 Photography
Painting 300
Painting 300
Course Description:
Level 3 Painting is a senior specialist Visual Arts course. Students research an art-making tradition and discuss its links to relevant painting practice, investigating and using ideas as methods in the context of painting and drawing studies. The external three-panel portfolio of original work should demonstrate a knowledge of art-making methods and ideas.
Please note: Some programmes, for example, fine arts, have additional requirements such as an audition, interview, portfolio of work or prerequisite subjects.
Recommended Prior Learning: Painting 200 - 12 credits or HOD approval
Contact Teacher: Sabrina Falefatu
Outcomes
Endorsement available: Yes
UE approved: Yes
Internal credits: 8
External credits: 14
Total credits: 22
UE Reading credits: 0
UE Writing credits: 0
Possible next steps: Visual arts courses; Tertiary study
Senior Pasifika Art 320
Senior Pasifika Art 320
Course Description:
This course is an open entry for Senior students (years 12 & 13) from all cultures. The course will focus on Pasifika Art. Students will draw upon culture to develop cultural patterns and artworks. Students will extend these patterns into finished woodcuts, collaborative artwork (i.e. mural) and a fabric design (i.e. lavalava print).
Recommended Prior Learning: Open
Contact Teacher: Kirsty Lewry
This course is not running in 2024
Level 2 Outcomes
Endorsement available: Yes
Internal credits: 8
External credits: 12
Total credits: 20
UE Reading credits: 0
UE Writing credits: 0
Possible next steps: SPA 320, Painting 300
Course Description:
This course is an open entry for Senior students (years 12 & 13) from all cultures. The course will focus on Pasifika Art. Students will draw upon culture to develop cultural patterns and artworks. Students will extend these patterns into finished woodcuts, collaborative artwork (i.e. mural) and a fabric design (i.e. lavalava print).
Recommended Prior Learning: Open
Contact Teacher: Sabrina Falefatu
Photography 200
Photography 200
Course Description:
Level 2 Photography is a senior specialist Visual Arts course. Through a mostly digital programme, students will learn to use DSLR and everyday digital cameras, Photoshop for manipulating images and printing methods. Students will also develop photography convention knowledge and investigate established practices to apply to their own work. The external two-panel portfolio should demonstrate an understanding of photography conventions and ideas.
Recommended Prior Learning: Art 100 - 15 credits; Design & Visual Communication 100 or HOD approval
Contact Teacher: Kirsty Lewry
Outcomes
Endorsement available: Yes
Internal credits: 8
External credits: 12
Total credits: 20
UE Reading credits: 0
UE Writing credits: 0
Possible next steps: Photography 300
Photography 300
Photography 300
Course Description:
Level 3 Photography is a senior specialist Visual Arts course. Students will develop knowledge of established photography practice into original work. Students will use photographic drawings from the subject matter as the central means of generating, analysing, clarifying and regenerating ideas for photography practice. The external three-panel portfolio of original work should demonstrate a knowledge of photographic methods and ideas.
Recommended Prior Learning: Painting 200 or Photography 200 - 12 credits or HOD approval
Contact Teacher: Kirsty Lewry
Outcomes
Endorsement available: Yes
UE Approved: Yes
Internal credits: 8
External credits: 14
Total credits: 22
UE Reading credits: 0
UE Writing credits: 0
Approved subject for University Entrance
Possible next steps: Visual arts courses; Tertiary study
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