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Scholarship is an 8-page workbook of ideas, planning and exploration that supports the work on the folio. It is submitted ONE WEEK after the folio boards.
Scholarship is an 8-page workbook of ideas, planning and exploration that supports the work on the folio. It is submitted ONE WEEK after the folio boards.
Students who achieve NZ Scholarship can receive a monetary award. This ranges from a one-off $500 payment for a single subject award to $10,000 per year for up to 3 years for premier award winners.
Students who achieve NZ Scholarship can receive a monetary award. This ranges from a one-off $500 payment for a single subject award to $10,000 per year for up to 3 years for premier award winners.
Scholarship 2026 is an OPT OUT system. All students will develop work toward scholarship through general classwork programs. Early term 3, Students can discuss with their teacher about opting out of scholarship [final date Aug 23]
exemplars scholarship.pdfScholarship workbook specifications
A Scholarship workbook must accompany all Visual Arts Scholarship entries.
The workbook and the submitted portfolio must be prepared together, in parallel, in the same year.
Workbook material must be submitted in an A3 clearfile folder and is limited to 8 single-sided A3 pages.
Workbook material may be displayed in landscape orientation.
The workbook must start with a title page that references the portfolio as a whole. The title page is for the marker's reference and will NOT count in the candidate’s allocated 8 pages.
For a portfolio board submission, the title page should provide a series of photographs of the three panels, in the order in which they are presented.
For a moving image submission, the title page should include a series of screenshots of up to a maximum of 12 frames in the order in which they appear in the moving image submission.
A Brief Summary
A Brief Summary
Page One: Your Proposal
What, Why & How: Your core theme, personal motivation, initial research questions, and early visual experiments.
Page Two: influences and artist models
How others explored this: Key artist models, philosophy, societal links, film, or photography influences that shape your approach.
Page Three to Seven: Key Ideas, Series, Briefs or Individual Works
Phase-by-phase development: 1 page per major sub-theme or key folio turning point. Include paint tests, photo shoots, artist connections, and reflections on choices made.
Page Eight: What next?
Pushing beyond limitations: How would you extend this theme if you had unlimited time/money? (e.g., massive installations, digital projections, immersive sculpture).
2 students examples.pdfScholarship_Painting_Student_Guide.pdfHOW ARE YOU ASSESSED?
HOW ARE YOU ASSESSED?
New Zealand Scholarship
Visual Arts Performance Standard
Outcome Description
The student will use knowledge of design, painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture to produce an original body of work.
Scholarship Performance Descriptor
The student will demonstrate aspects of high level:
analysis and critical thinking
integration, synthesis, and application of highly developed knowledge, skills, and understanding to complex situations
logical development, precision and clarity of ideas.
Outstanding Performance Descriptor
In addition to the requirements for Scholarship, the student will also demonstrate, in a sustained manner, aspects of:
perception and insight
sophisticated integration and abstraction
independent reflection and extrapolation
convincing communication.
Marking matrix.pdfNZQA scholarship report
NZQA scholarship report
Visual Arts assessment report __ SCHOLARSHIP.pdfPage updated
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