Arts - Dance

Arts - Dance Learning Area

At Pukekohe High School ākonga (students) have the opportunity to be involved in learning and expressing themselves through Dance, Drama, and Music and the Visual Arts. 

Arts education explores, challenges, affirms and celebrates unique artistic expressions of self, communities and cultures.  In the Arts, ākonga learn to work both independently and collaboratively to construct meanings, produce works, respond to and value others’ contributions. They learn to use imagination to engage with unexpected outcomes and to explore multiple solutions. 

By actively participating and learning in, through and about the Arts students make and respond to their own and others' work. They connect ideas, imagination, senses, and feelings. By participating in the Arts, the personal well-being of akonga is enhanced. As they express and respond to works and ideas within creative, aesthetic, and technological frameworks, students' confidence to take risks is increased. 

Arts education values the culture and experiences of all akonga and builds on these with increasing sophistication and complexity as their knowledge and skills develop.  Learners develop their ability to view their world from new perspectives. Through the development of Arts literacies - as creators, performers and viewers -  are able to participate in, interpret, value, and enjoy the creative Arts throughout their lives. 

The Arts learning area comprises four disciplines: Drama, Music (Sound Arts), and Visual Arts (Painting, Photography, and Art Design). Within each, ākonga develop literacies as they build on skills, knowledge, attitudes, and understandings at each of the eight levels of the curriculum. Through Arts practices and the use of traditional and new technologies, ākonga artistic ideas are generated and refined through cycles of action and reflection.

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