Co-Curricular -The Arts
The college offers a comprehensive Arts Programme via quality arts activities and events. Students are offered opportunities to participate in art exhibitions, musical groups and bands, debating, photography and drama. Our regular musical and dramatic productions are renowned for their quality and are a highlight of the school calendar. Our musical groups, which include orchestra, choral groups, concert band, and jazz band, perform with considerable success in local, national and international competitions.
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| Stage Challenge | Music Month | Leavers' Concert |
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| Christine James | Becky Newbury | Faith Peach | Kimberley Torrie | Rya Allen | Sofia Kinane |
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| Concert Band-Hawaii | Will's Twins | Jesus Christ Superstar |
Recent Events, Awards and Other Activities
2010 Year 13 Productions
Year 13 produced both Purapurawhetu by Briar Grace Smith and Waiora by Hone Kouka.
These are two iconic NZ plays explore themes around family, belonging, land and NZ
society. Students were aiming at creating convincing, believable roles while deepening their
understanding of Maori culture.
Tamati Patuwai helped with this understanding and directed students in the use of haka and
waiata. Without his generous assistance we could not have performed these two powerful plays.
I am immensely proud of the standard of performance the students were able to achieve, and
that we were able to do justice to these powerful stories.
Well done to all involved it has been a great pleasure.
C Stone, Head of Drama
Purapurawhetu by Briar Grace
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Waiora by Hone Koaka
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Summerfest 2010
Summerfest was a great success in the last week of February. We were fortunate to have beautiful weather most lunchtimes and all students were able to either be involved or support the events in painting panels for the Art department building , drama and theatre sports, impromptu debates, or musical items from various soloists, small groups, Stage and Concert Bands. Well done to all students and staff involved and thank you to all parents who supported the event.
C Myhre -Faculty Leader, The Arts
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Leavers’ Concert
The Year 13 leavers were acknowledged recently at a special concert of favourite music and fun.
Performances were given by the Choir, Orchestra, Concert Band, Stage Band , “Talkbox”, and vocal soloists Holly Dennison and David McGregor.
The leavers summed up their five years of music in a humorous valediction and Mrs Myhre acknowledged the contribution they had made to music performance in the school.
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Arts Awards 2009
The college celebrated excellence in The Arts at the annual Arts Awards Evening recently. The guest speaker was Tamati Patuwai who gave an inspirational speech about the place of drama in his own life. The evening began with an extract from Patrick Spillane’s cleverly written play, “Wills Twins”, performed by a small group of Year 12 students. Musical performances were given by Holly Dennison, David McGregor, and Bradley Craig. A dramatic monologue on aspects of the life of Sir Edmund Hillary was devised and performed by Edmund Boyes. Selected folio boards on display from the Art Department provided another opportunity for student work to be appreciated. Arts Leaders, Bradley Craig and Ally Thomson, provided entertaining continuity for the evening which was well attended and enjoyed by all.
Special Awards
Masonic Award, Excellence in Fine Arts Kimberley Torrie
Bill McColl Cup for Photography Tiffany Ngan
National Arts Supplies Cup for Painting Krenare Pireva
Photolife Graphic Arts Award Rya Allen
Senior Debating Trophy Geoffrey Beinart Smollen
Drama Cup Hamish Wilson
Senior Music Award David McGregor
Production Cup Matt Young
Best Jazz Musician Henry Hawkins
Steven Dakers Performing Arts Award Bradley Craig
Arts Leader Koru Trophy Ally Thomson
Arts Leaders Framed Trophy Bradley Craig
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Debating |
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Christine Chang Claire Gibson Christine James Tiffany Ngan Kimberley Torrie Kristie Yee |
Geoffrey Beinart-Smollen Anna Clearwater Elahe Kia Nathan Thomas |
Edmund Boyes Courtney Field Henry Fitzgerald Ben McGuinness Annaliesha Rae Megan Styles Ally Thomson |
Max Barker-Cowan Anna Clearwater Bradley Craig Holly Dennison Elahe Kia Henry Hawkins Tim Jones David McGregor Ally Thomson |
| Year 12 | |||
Rya Allen Natalie Lentell Ximena Smith Marina Stojanovic |
Najla’a Al-Abeyechi Brenna Cukier Amy Dendale |
Naja’la Al-Abayechi Siobhan Matthews Cain Parangi Ximena Smith |
Stephanie Hsieh Laurel Huang Steven Kim Ximena Smith |
| Year 11 | |||
Jessica Bines Rebecca Chi Rebecca Newbury Aye-Nyint Paing Dijana Sneath Hamish Speakman Anna Tyndall Aaron Yong Christopher Yong Anna Schuck |
Anna Schuck |
Charlotte Crowther Harry Willis Year 10 Brittany Baker Taotao Li |
Mia Chung Naomi Gribble |
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Lydia Gillan Taotao Li |
Tao Tao Li Evan Sinton |
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Leyla Kumble Alice Strang |
Lucas Haugh Erik Kahr Joshua Worthington-Church |
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Concert Band Successes
Student leaders of the award winning concert band displaying the three trophies won by the band this year.
From Left: Ally Thomson with the Pacific Basin award, David McGregor with the Gold award from the KBB Festival and Elahe Kia with the Rotorua Festival Gold Award.
The Concert Band will be one of the groups performing at next week’s Leavers Concert. Tickets can be purchased at school or at the door.
O.U.T. Spells OUT!
This play was successfully performed over two nights as the students' "perform an acting role" and "perform a technical role" to achieve NCEA credits. They all worked extremely hard to design and create the world of this interesting play, set in three time periods in two different countries and at sea! Apart from their incredible ingenuity and hard work, they demonstrated a generosity of spirit when supporting each other towards success.
The students created interesting and believable roles. It was the best year 11 production in terms of line learning! They looked great, sounded great and enjoyed every minute of it! Well done to you all.
Mrs C Stone, HOD Drama
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Rotorua Concert Band Gold Award
On the weekend of 4 – 6 September, the Glendowie College Concert Band joined 25 other school and community bands to attend the New Zealand Concert Band Association’s North Island Festival which was held in Rotorua. The band gave a community performance at City Focus on Saturday (in very cold conditions!), and later in the afternoon performed at the adjudicated performance at the Rotorua Convention Centre.
Later in the evening all the bands came together for the announcement of the awards. Glendowie Concert Band was awarded Gold!
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Friends of Auckland Art Gallery - Pat Hanly Secondary Student Awards
Kimberley Torrie was among 45 Auckland secondary school students to receive the Pat Hanly Award at the Auckland Art Gallery on the 24th of August. The award is presented to Year 13 Visual Arts students who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the Visual Arts. Kimberley received a two-year gallery membership, a range of art materials courtesy of Gordon and Harris, and the opportunity to exhibit her art work in the 2011 Auckland Art Gallery Student Exhibition.
Award winner Kimberley Torrie
National Woodwind Competition
David McGregor has gained 3rd place in the Secondary Class of the National Woodwind Competition. This is an open competition held at the Raye Freedman Centre, Epsom Girls Grammar. it was held on Friday 28 August.
Above: David McGregor
KBB Festival 2009
The students of Glendowie College represented the school in the recent KBB Festival. Their musical talents once again proved to be outstanding with a 'Gold' awarded to the Concert Band and a 'Bronze' awarded to the Stage Band and Orchestra.
Above: KBB Festival 2008 held in the Town Hall