The Performing Arts continues to play a large part in Pt England culture. Despite the Covid interruptions there were numerous opportunities for every student to be involved in a variety of thespian activities through out the year. These included:
1) Class contributions to PENN (school TV channel)
2) School Prefects' contributions to the weekly korero in School Assemblies, including live web casts during Covid L3
3) Occasional class "specials" in Friday Assembly
4) Cultural groups celebrating their Language Weeks
5) Students acting in and editing movies for the annual Manaiakalani Film Festival. Back at Hoyts Sylvia Park this year.
7) Kapa Haka groups performed at a couple of corporate events.
8) Award Assemblies Team music/dance performances.
This year 23 classes and the Extension groups produced 3min movies with the students involved in script writing, videography, acting, editing and post production. The movies were of a very high standard. The students got the thrill once again of seeing their hard work come to life on the Mega-screen at the Sylvia Park cinema complex.
School Production
2022 was to be the year for our bi-annual School Production but we decided that we would not hold the event due to the uncertainties created by the continuing threatened COVID disruptions. But we did, in Term 3, focus our school wide topic on art. We called it Art Works and students could elect to use various art mediums: visual, graphic, sculpture, pottery, music, performing, etc. The Term culminated in an Art Gallery in the school hall of completed works and a concert in Te Kapua of the performance pieces.
Garth Jacobsen