At St Patrick's School, The Arts are being used as a way to support students in developing ways to communicate their ideas on a topic or thinking. Throughout the school visual arts are represented strongly and connect to our RE program as a way for students to show and explore their understanding of our Faith. Teachers have included music through singing of Faith songs for enjoyment (not just at prayer times), used role play as a form of exploration to understand, and are particularly good at using visual arts in many forms to express who we are as a Roman Catholic Faith community journeying in our life together. Teachers also use creative art activities such as newspaper articles and posters, and drama plays,  as a way to encourage the sharing.  Culturally, St Patricks has pockets of art opportunities that focus on Pasifika or Maori art ideologies. 

Some highlights around the school include last year’s Nativity drama performed for school classes. Early Settlers Art, Filipino Art, Anzac Art, along with Holy Week art, and the All About Me exploration at the beginning of the year allows children to showcase their creativity. Use of tools and materials featured as the foundation learning, and the products produced shows students capabilities across the whole school. 

Eden- Alongside regular art activities during the week,  every Friday Eden complete art work. This could be in the form of painting, drawing, colouring, creating, making, baking etc. It is usually tied into our Big Book focus for the week or surrounding skills we are focusing on. 

Bethlehem

While art is integrated into all areas of the curriculum, we set aside time every week to explicitly teach art skills, develop knowledge and appreciation of the arts. For visual arts this term we have been investigating colour, lines and drawing skills using a variety medium.

Nazareth

Zion

In this art project Zion's students did involved drawing a tree and using warm and cold colors to decorate it. 

Year 7 & 8 

Students have been experimenting with mediums to create contrast and mood within their images. We have also been learning about the emotive use of colour and how to use colour to invoke harmony or drama in an art piece. 

Performing art presented by Jerusalem on " How the South Island " of New Zealand was formed.

Visual  Art In Bethlehem

So far this year we have been learning about the use of line, colour and the effects of different mediums to create our artwork. We have created a range of different artworks including self portraits, crayon and dye abstract drawings and paper weaving.

Art in Nazareth

Here are some drama presentations from Nazareth to show the ways bread was used in the Bible.

The Yr 7 and 8 students were invited to watch a performing arts show by the Ugly Shakespeare Company. This was combined with JPII and was a wonderful way for our children to be introduced to the works of Shakespeare. 

Holy Week Art Display 2024

For Holy Week Cana & Galilee created the Last Supper. Each member of the classes created a character related to the Bible story. They added their own faces. Finally a tableau was build and a "3-D" element added to the display by hanging each character in front of the display. 

Freeze Frame

In the context of Early Settlers who came to New Zealand, students reanacted the event when Maori waka first encountered foreign ships. 

Senior Syndicate Visual Arts

The purpose of providing learning experiences in the Arts is to support students to extend and develop imaginative and innovative thinking skills that help them to communicate their ideas, thoughts, deepen their understanding of Te Ao Māori, and build an understanding of the world around them. 

Opportunities to create and communicate using a range of mediums allow students to work towards goals that foster creativity, lateral thinking, problem-solving, relationship skills, find ways to understand our own thoughts and communicate these in different ways. 

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