______________ The Arts ______________ Ngā Toi

Why Study Arts? 

Our school offers Visual Art, Drama and Music through itinerant music lessons. Study in the Arts enables students to explore, create, affirm, and celebrate unique artistic expressions of self, community, and culture. They learn to engage and connect thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings. As students express and interpret ideas within creative, aesthetic, and technological frameworks, their confidence is increased, and personal wellbeing is enhanced. 

Arts education enables students to view the world from new perspectives, they learn to use imagination to engage with unexpected outcomes, to explore multiple solutions and to take risks. Through the arts students learn to communicate ideas, think, to work both independently and collaboratively to create work, and respond to and value others’ contributions. 

These are all skills that are highly valued and transferable in the modern world of work and will also give students a life-long appreciation and enjoyment of the arts throughout their lives.



Animator/Digital Artist, Advertising Specialist, Copywriter, Survey Technician, Aeronautical Engineer, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Architectural Technician, Archivist, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Historian, Artist, Artistic Director, Film and Video Editor, Automotive Refinisher, Beauty Therapist, Tailor/Dressmaker, Biomedical Engineer, Tattoo Artist, Entertainer, Film/Television Camera Operator, Urban/Regional Planner, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering Technician/Draughtsperson, Meteorologist, Coachbuilder/Trimmer, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Communications Professional, Interpreter, Community Development Worker, Musician, Industrial Designer, Event Manager, Conservator, Quantity Surveyor, Jeweller, Make-up Artist, Curator, Graphic Pre-press Worker, Medical Imaging Technologist, Diagnostic Radiologist, Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Radio Presenter, Visual Merchandiser, Early Childhood Teacher, eacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Environmental Engineer, Exhibition and Collections Technician, Media Producer, Production Assistant (Film, Ranger, Funeral Director/Embalmer, Lighting Technician, Game Developer, Hairdresser/Barber, Industrial Spray Painter, Primary School Teacher, Kaiwhakaako Māori, Librarian, Market Research Analyst, Massage Therapist, Nanny/Child Carer, Photographer, Plastics Technician, Printer, Private Teacher/Tutor, Secondary School Teacher, Signmaker, Teacher Aide, Speech-Language Therapist, Television Presenter, Garment Technician, Fire Engineer, Ophthalmologist, Viticulturist,