Drama reflects the key concepts in the New Zealand Curriculum for the Arts through -
Apart from the timetabled courses listed under year level tabs, there are several extra-curricular opportunities that develop students’ performing arts capabilities at Lynfield College.
These include-
Relationships and connection
- Drama is interaction, action, and reaction.
- Learners work collaboratively with each other, with ideas, with text, with symbols and images, and with technologies, to tell stories, challenge ideas, create, and perform dramatic work.
- Drama is founded on principles of trust and empathy.
Embodiment and performance
- Drama utilises both personal and universal experiences to inform the creative process.
- Drama expresses ideas, emotions, and stories through body and voice.
- Dramatic meaning is communicated through the physical.
- In drama, working in role is central to the notion of embodiment, achieved through research and committed portrayal of characters and their histories.
Reflection, challenge, and transformation
- Drama reflects or holds a mirror up to our world.
- Drama interprets the way in which others interact in past and present cultures.
- Through the performance and experience of drama, we explore and challenge ideas and perceptions of the world, and of ourselves.
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Drama at Lynfield College
Apart from the timetabled courses listed under year level tabs, there are several extra-curricular opportunities that develop students’ performing arts capabilities at Lynfield College.
These include-
- participation in the annual school production as either actors, dancers or singers
- participation in the school production in technical roles related to sound, lighting, costume, set construction
- participation in the school production in management areas of stage management and front of house
- participation in the cultural dance performance groups that are established across the school at the start of each year