Arts @ QMC

at QMC 2022

CONTENTS Overview

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Meet the Team

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Junior Choirs

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Junior Wind Programme

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CONTENTS

Banditas Band

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Junior & Years 7 – 8 Strings Programme

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Honours Band

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Senior Orchestra

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Voces Luce & Celesta Choir

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IB Art Exhibition

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Senior Art Exhibition

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Art Clubs

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Competition Winners

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Otago University / Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival

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NCEA Productions

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IB Theatre

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MYP Drama

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Melodramas – House Performing Arts Day

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Summary of 2022

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Performing Arts

Visual Arts

Drama

Speech & Drama

TIM JENKIN, HEAD OF ARTS

Introducing the Arts At Queen Margaret College (QMC), we are privileged to be able to offer excellent programmes in all of the Arts, with an outstanding group of teachers and tutors. This includes Music from Years 1 – 13, Drama from Years 7 – 13, and Visual Art from Years 7 – 13, as well as a fledgling Dance programme in the Junior School which we plan to develop.

As well as these curricular offerings, we have a myriad of extra-curricular opportunities for our students to excel in, as outlined below. The Arts, despite restrictions imposed in recent times by COVID-19, have continued to thrive and develop at QMC in 2022. Individuals have won competitions or been accepted into prestigious national groups, ensembles have shone at national

competitions and within the school students have painted, acted and made music in a multitude of styles and genres. Deserving of very special mentions are the following students: Mia Moon, Year 12, won the National Youth Art Award 2022, Winner of Photography section and overall Winner for ages 13 – 25 category; Emma Dias, Year 12, was accepted into the New Zealand Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra; Sophia Gittings, Year 11, was accepted into the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Choir. Lastly, Meredith Williams, Year 8, won her age group section of the Paul Seideman Competition with an amazing and evocative composition portraying the Holocaust.

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As Head of Arts it is a thrill to work with able and enthusiastic young women who are developing their skills in the Arts as they progress through their school years.

Meet our Team MEET OUR TEAM

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Timothy Jenkin

Anna Faulknor

Belinda de Mayo

Karen Dravitzki

Yvette Elliston

Faye Taylor

HEAD OF ARTS

TEACHER Visual Arts

TEACHER Visual Arts Support

TEACHER IN CHARGE Visual Arts

TEACHER Visual Arts

TEACHER Performing Arts Support

Denise O'Connell TEACHER IN CHARGE Drama

Camille Le Prou TEACHER Visual Arts

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TEACHER Music

Jacqueline Ward TEACHER Junior School Music

Susie Hardie TEACHER Junior School Music

Mark Stamper DIRECTOR Choral Studies

Joanne Lisik TEACHER Drama

Glenda Craven TEACHER Junior & Y7-8 String programme

MEET OUR TEAM

Louise Logan

Music

In our busy and thriving Music Department at QMC, our students perform at a high level and enjoy immense success both within the College, in the Community and at National level. In class, students sing and play together, learn about musical conventions and cultures, and both perform and compose their own music to a high level in the Senior School. Students perform regularly for local Community groups and events and compete in our annual Aria and Concerto Competition. Recent successes outside the classroom include reaching the Big Sing Finale five times, including a Silver award in 2022, winning numerous regional awards, performing in our biennial school musicals (with Mamma Mia! on the calendar for 2023), as well as a number of girls being selected for National ensembles such as the NZ Secondary Schools Choir and Symphony Orchestra.

Junior Wind Programme

All Junior school girls participate in a full music programme at QMC. The Tui Singers is a choir for all Year 1 – 3 students which focuses on developing basic singing techniques, such as posture, breath control, singing in tune, and learning to work together as a group to make music. This year, the Tui Singers performed at the College's Open Day, the Arts Extravaganza concert, and worked hard on the songs for Prizegiving and Carols at QMC. The Cherubim Choir is for Year 4 – 6 students. In this choir, the girls learn to read music, sing in harmony, and extend their repertoire to more complex and challenging choral music. The highlights of 2022 for the choir were performing in the Founders' Service, the Arts Extravaganza and both Grandparents’ and Fathers’ ‘to school’ days.

In Year 5, the students have the option to be part of the band programme. They can choose to play a wind or brass instrument, such as flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. The students receive a unique teaching experience with an expert tutor in small groups. This year, all Year 5 students took part in an instrumental concert for the parents and students in September, with many playing solos and showcasing their learning during the year.

In Year 6, students play together as a group once a week. They learn beginning band repertoire and the basics of ensemble performance. The girls continue to have their small group lessons with tutors. The Year 6 students were delighted to perform at the Arts Extravaganza as they learned fun and interesting repertoire for the Prizegiving this year. All the instruments are provided by the school. The students work towards obtaining their music badges by playing in the ensemble, completing recordings, and demonstrating mastery on their instrument.

Banditas Band The Banditas concert band provides the opportunity for Year 7 and 8 students to extend their musical talents. The Banditas participate in an annual band camp in June. The students have focused practice time as well as opportunities to bond as a peer group.

This year, the Banditas took part in the MusicWorks National Ensemble Festival. They gave an outstanding performance and received a gold award for their playing. In pre-COVID-19 years the Banditas regularly travelled to Auckland to take part in the Kings School Honours Band Festival. We are excited to be able to perform at this festival again in 2023.

Susie Hardie

TEACHER Junior School Music

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Junior Choirs

Junior and Years 7 – 8 Strings Programme

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This year got off to a flying start, with no restrictions on string classes or rehearsals despite COVID-19 restrictions for choirs and wind instruments. 45+ violins were cleaned, prepared, and allocated to the Year 3 – 6 girls in the Junior String Programme.

This year, we added two 1/8 size violins to the QMC collection of ¼, ½ and ¾ size violins to accommodate the smallest girls in Year 3.

In Years 3 and 4, the students learn to play either the violin or the cello. The emphasis is on learning how to set up the instruments, how to look after them, and how to play them. This progresses to playing along with music tracks, memorising patterns of music, and performances. We had a mid-year concert for parents and the students performed beautifully in the Term 3 Arts Extravaganza Concert. Alongside this, working at musical theory so they can make sense of the musical notation in their tutor books.

In Year 5, students can continue with strings or take up a band instrument. They use the Essential Elements system which enables digital learning.

The string students, continuing from the Year 3 and

4 programme this year, were able to start at Level 2 or 3, and the newcomers at Level 1. The mixed skill levels enabled some exciting performances and solo opportunities for the most advanced. In Year 5, the students work towards the Year 5 string badge.

In Year 6, there are two classes a week where students work towards the Essential Elements Year 6 string badge. This enabled more time for ensemble playing and more solo performance opportunities including a mid-year concert for parents, the Arts Extravaganza Concert, Open Day and Prizegiving.

Following on from Year 6, the string students can join Stringendos, the Year 7 and 8 string group. This is held once a week during school time. We have had an exciting year with performances at assemblies, the Arts Extravaganza, Open Day, Band-String Camp, and Prizegiving. The students have played a lovely variety of pieces this year including film, musicals and classical string music. The Vivaldi 'Concerto for Two Cellos' highlighted our strong cello section, with Sara Zhou and Selina Yap, both in Year 7, excelling with the solo parts.

Glenda Craven TEACHER Junior & Years 7 – 8 String programme

Senior Orchestra

Our Honours Band is the next step up from the Banditas, and is a stepping stone for our Year 9 and 10 students who have played their instruments for two or three years. We concentrate on standard band repertoire and arrangements or medleys of well-known themes from movies or musicals, and occasionally some jazz numbers. Developing listening and counting skills is the focus, along with learning to adjust tuning, refine dynamics and grow ensemble skills. Above all, we have a lot of fun playing together. In 2022, the Honours Band performed for the Arts Extravaganza, Grandparents Day, MEFA festival, and for Prizegiving. Our most substantial piece was an arrangement of a medley from 'Star Wars'. This was a real challenge: however, after many hours of rehearsals, the girls managed well despite losing the majority of Term 1 because of restrictions.

Until COVID-19 hit, the Honours Band were regular participants at the Kings Festival, a gathering of middle-school age students in Auckland. The festival consists of a few days of mass rehearsals, and a performance of some challenging band music. We are planning and looking forward to being part of this amazing experience again in 2023.

Our Senior Orchestra at QMC consists of string and wind players who have developed their skills in our junior wind and string groups, and then combine in the senior school to play orchestral repertoire.

Players are usually drawn from Years 9 to 13, but particularly talented girls can become members as young as Year 7. The Orchestra plays for special school occasions, including Prizegiving as well as the annual Arts Extravaganza. Most years, we also take part in the local Wellington Band and Orchestra Festival (formerly known as WeBO, and now re-branded MEFA). In 2022, we have had a particularly strong string section, so we tackled two movements from Bach’s ‘Double violin concerto’, with Year 12 students Emma Dias and Linh Le Hung as soloists, as well as piano and bassoon playing the continuo part. This is a challenging piece and having performed the slow movement in 2022, we plan to work further on the opening Allegro and perform that in 2023.

Our other main piece of repertoire this year was an arrangement of Stephen Sondheim’s evocative ‘Send in the Clowns’. Whilst we approach rehearsals with the aim of developing ensemble skills, note accuracy and intonation, we also enjoy a lot of fun and camaraderie.

Tim Jenkin

HEAD OF ARTS

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Honours Band

Voces Luce and Celesta Choirs 2022 has proved to be a very exciting year for Celesta and Voces Luce. We started the year with firm restrictions from the Ministry of Education, however, we worked hard and managed well.

Voces Luce has finished a banner year! We held our camps, which were in-house due to COVID-19 restrictions, learned our songs for The Big Sing secondary schools’ choral competition, performed at three community events as well as frequently in school. Lastly, the choir was awarded the following accolades:

2. Selected as a National Finale participant, one of 24 choirs chosen from over 250 3. Represented the Wellington region in Christchurch at the Big Sing Finale where we received a Silver Award Looking ahead to 2023, we have had over 25 students audition for next year’s Voces Luce. This is the largest number of auditionees for the choir for many years and, as a result, we will be able to re-form Jubilate, our training choir, which began in 2020. As well as competing in next year’s Big Sing, Voces Luce is registered to compete and perform in Singapore at the Orientale Concentus festival in July 2023.

I am so proud of both choirs for their achievements in 2022, we have a tremendous year ahead planned for all three of our middle and senior school vocal ensembles!

Mark Stamper DIRECTOR Choral Studies

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Celesta has experienced real musical growth as their knowledge of music literacy is greater than in previous years. This aspect is helping them develop vocally, in confidence, and perform at a higher level, though there are only 18 singers. We have sung for Grandparents’ Day, The Arts Extravaganza, performed for Middle School Prizegiving, and the annual Carol Service. We also travelled to Wellesley College, for our yearly Cultural Exchange with this fantastic boys' preparatory programme.

1. The Guy Jansen Cup at The Big Sing Wellington Regionals

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In our well equipped Visual Arts Department we offer opportunities for students to develop their creativity across multiple media. Our department includes three specialist teachers who guide students to learn and grow as a creative individual. Students learn how the visual arts operate and develop in societies and cultures, while they actively contribute to the visual arts within our School and community by making, presenting, and responding to art works. Arts events, assemblies, and exhibitions are held over the course of the year. Students are also offered the opportunity to enter local and national art competitions, and have enjoyed numerous successes in recent years. These include winning the National Youth Art Award 2022 as well as a number of finalists in the Ringa Toi Exhibition.

Senior Art Exhibition

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It was a privilege to experience and explore the incredible creations of Year 13 Art students in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP).

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On Tuesday 25th October, the school community had an opportunity to view folio boards created

by NCEA students alongside a selection of IBDP works from the first and second year cohorts.

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They showcased their work, which is a culmination of two years’ of tireless effort.

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This is a showcase of the amazing creativity, diversity, and talent of our students.

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Equally impressive, is the way that these young artists are able to critically speak about their creations and explain the experiences and ideas that served as inspiration for their portfolios.

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We appreciated the large turnout of parents, whānau, and friends who came to the exhibition to see the high quality art being created in school.

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IBDP offers a heightened freedom for students with regard to how they approach their art. They are not tied to a canvas and brush, which only deepens the creative possibilities and leads to immersive, and spectacular results across multiple disciplines.

The Level 1 folios explore a conceptual theme through a wide variety of disciplines and mixed media.

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The Level 2 and 3 folios show finely honed skills in one specific discipline, such as Painting and Printmaking or Photography.

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Over the year students build upon personal ideas and have learned to develop and extend their creativity. Students are encouraged to develop their own emerging style. They have studied and interpreted the works of established New Zealand and international artists, which has helped them inform their folio submission.

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This year, the Art department started up two Years 7 – 10 clubs that ran during the lunchtimes as well as a Painting and Drawing Club and a Photography Club.

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While we had disruptions with COVID-19, there was a good uptake from the students. We were able to provide a safe environment for students to explore various media and create experiences that are not provided in the classroom.

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We want to enhance artistic connections between our students and the community at large.

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The club helps students develop their motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking and inventiveness.

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We have plenty of exciting projects and ideas moving forward to 2023.

Anna Faulknor

TEACHER IN CHARGE Visual Arts

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IB Art Exhibition

Competition Winners Japan Festival Wellington’s Tanabata-Matariki Banner Competition 2022

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Jayda Bates, Brooke Martin, Grace Moore, Ellie Stephens, Alice Simpson, and Tiffany Yap from Year 6 worked with senior students in producing a banner for the Japan Festival Wellington’s Tanabata-Matariki Banner Competition 2022. The girls were awarded first place for their banner design. The students loved the creative process of banner design, as they learned about Tanabata and Matariki. The banner was showcased at the Japan Festival at the TSB Arena and was viewed by many who came to celebrate the festival.

National Youth Art Award 2022 Mia Moon, Year 12, won the Photography section of the National Youth Art Awards, a competition run by the Waikato Society of Arts. Mia then went on to be judged the Supreme Overall winner, with her photograph ‘Mushroom Magic’. She created this from a photography project in her first year of IBDP studies while exploring patterns in nature. While doing this, she became interested in microscopic as well as macro lens photography. She used a macro lens to explore her subject matter of mushrooms in extreme close-up.

"This photograph depicts the intricate structure and design of a pink oyster mushroom, achieved through the use of a macro lens and considered lighting.

Together with the delicate gills and the curvature of the mushroom’s edge, the work aims to illustrate the beauty, yet fragility, of the natural world."

Chris Parkin Drawing Prize QMC Old Girl, Siân Stephens, won the prestigious Parkin Drawing Prize for her drawing 'Liam Cutting His Hair After An All-nighter'.

Siân's work was picked from almost 600 entries, which is a testament to her skill and talent displayed in the drawing, established and developed during her time at QMC.

Ringa Toi 2022 Three of our students, Madeleine Kay, Year 12, Ella Court, Year 13, and Gracie McIsaac, Year 12, were selected as Ringa Toi finalists which were exhibited at Te Papa.

Ringa Toi is an annual exhibition run by NZQA that showcases the artwork of secondary school students with a focus on Toi Māori.

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Gracie McIsaac, Year 12 'Kotahitanga' ‘Ehara taku toa, I te toa takitahi, engari he toa takatini’ I created this photographic series as I was inspired by the significance of Māori culture in New Zealand and QMC’s journey towards becoming more culturally responsive. Although the model in this series, Kade Read, is tauiwi Ngāti Pākehā, she is Tangata Tiriti and is passionate about all areas of Māoritanga. She is studying NCEA Level 2 Te Reo Māori and plays a key role in our Te Whānāu group. These photographs symbolise the strength of Māoritanga as a powerful community and how it can impact not just Māori, but other tauiwi. As Pākehā, we need to do our part in strengthening Māoritanga and learning more about the culture and history of Aotearoa.

Madeleine Kay, Year 12 'Remembering the People of Parihaka' Paint and Print I completed this series of paintings and prints for Year 12 Visual Arts. I wanted to explore a theme that held meaning and resonance for me so I explored the story of Parihaka through imagery, remembering the people of Parihaka.

Iwi: Ngati Maniapoto

Ella Court, Year 13 'Remembering Parihaka' Acrylic on Canvas In 1881, Aotearoa’s peaceful town of Parihaka was violently invaded by Pākehā troops. This painting serves to remember the gentle and peaceful town as it once was, pre-colonisation, with the beautiful backdrop of Mount Taranaki. The composition of the figures was inspired by the romantic painting ‘Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages / Couple with their heads full of clouds’ by Salvador Dali. Through this composition, a sense of intimacy and trust is conveyed between the two Māori figures as they lean towards each other and reminisce over Parihaka.

Iwi: Ngati Pākehā

Drama

In our fabulous Drama Department our students perform at a high level, enjoying success within the College, in the Community, and Nationally. Students learn foundational skills in the Middle Years Programme and develop these into performances of a high standard in the Senior school.

Students have been successful in the NZ Scholarship Examination. Other recent successes include reaching the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Nationals on eight occasions and winning numerous regional awards. We have had a number of students selected to be part of the National Youth Shakespeare company at the Globe Theatre in London. Students also perform in our outstanding biennial musicals, and in other productions in the community.

Otago University / Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival to the murder of Caesar, was deceptively simple in its production choices, and clear and dynamic in delivery.

Sophia Gittings’ playing of snare drums added drama and tension; Eve Robertshawe as Caesar brought physicality and presence to the piece, while Pia and Lucia, in red dress shirts to symbolise the bloodletting they were planning, played the rhythms and heart of the text with assurance and flair. The students’ performance won them advancement to the National Festival where they had enormous fun participating in various workshops run by industry professionals, along with marathon viewing sessions watching the 50 plus performance pieces staged by winners from all regions around New Zealand. The girls were proud to win two awards for ‘Outstanding Communication of the Text’ and ‘Best Interaction between Two Actors’, for Pia and Lucia, at the National Festival.

I encourage senior students of 2023 to sign up and give the festival a go. You will learn about how easy it is to understand Shakespeare, about yourself, confidence, creativity and will have a lot of fun in the process. Try it.

Denise O'Connell TEACHER IN CHARGE Drama

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QMC students have always been strong participants in this iconic performance festival. Bringing together students from schools all around Wellington and the Hutt for the regional festival, to perform 5 or 15-minute excerpts from a Shakespearean play of their choice. At the conclusion of this event, two performances are then chosen to advance to the National Festival. This is traditionally held over three days during Queen’s Birthday weekend at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. Over their many years of participation, QMC students have regularly won advancement to the National Festival and been winners of numerous individual and group awards.

Excitingly, over this time, a number of our students have also won the ultimate award of being selected for the Young Shakespeare company which travels annually to perform at the Globe Theatre in London.

However, awards and recognition aside, the real value of the festival is the stimulus it provides for students to challenge their creative boundaries. This year Drama Prefect, Pia Bryant, and Year 13 Drama student, Lucia West, directed themselves, Year 12 student, Eve Robertshawe, and Year 11 student, Sophia Gittings, in a 5-minute excerpt from ‘Julius Caesar’. This performance, examining Cassius’ seduction of Brutus

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NCEA Productions

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The Year 11 NCEA production was first up this year with an abridged version of Sue Murray’s ‘The Ball’, a lighthearted look at the pressures experienced by students as they move towards both their graduation ball and independence as young adults. The piece focused on balancing ensemble work with moments of solo performance, where the actors broke the fourth wall and addressed the audience directly, letting them into their characters’ inner worlds and revealing the feelings and vulnerabilities that were masked in public interactions. The students rose to the challenges presented to them by the work, responding positively to direction and collaborating wonderfully together as a cast by supporting and cheering each other on as they developed their roles step by step. The aspect of acting that seems to most impress those who do not act is the ability to remember lines, but in essence line learning is simply a technical exercise. Good performance requires working through a process, with the actor building detail on detail around their role, uncovering character intentions and experimenting with different ways of communicating that detail and those intentions through a nuanced use of techniques. The Year 11 students gave it their all and performed strongly and confidently on the night of the performance to a full house of family and friends. They had reason to be very proud of themselves.

A week later, the Year 12 and 13 NCEA students had their turn with Caryl Churchill’s ‘Love and Information’, a kaleidoscopic play of short scenes addressing contemporary issues about knowledge, technology and communication, and our capacity for love.

This was a challenging production for the students to work on. Churchill’s lines are unattributed to characters, and as the characters are different in every scene, there are over 80 characters in the play.

The script rarely gives any context for the scenes, so the students had to work with their director on creating context and character detail for each scene themselves, a challenge they rose to admirably. The

students took this work very seriously, as they should, given the time commitment involved for both them and their director. All Drama class periods for Term 2 were spent rehearsing, along with some after-school work during the week and a half-day rehearsal every Sunday. At the beginning of production week, lights were focused and sound cues integrated during a 4-hour technical rehearsal. Then, it was onto the dress rehearsal from which point the actors knew that if anything went wrong, e.g someone dried on a line, it would be up to them and their cast mates to get themselves out of the situation by progressing the show forward without coming out of role or making the audience aware that anything was amiss. The days of someone prompting from the wings are well and truly gone. Happily, the lines flowed and a lot of excellent performance work was on show, both at the dress rehearsal and on the performance evening itself. Well done to the seniors for their commitment.

A full house showed their genuine appreciation and vindicated all the hard work, leaving all concerned with a sense of excited satisfaction. A good job; well done, to all involved.

MYP Drama

While the impact of COVID-19 meant that the challenging collaborative project, where students create and present an original piece of theatre, had to be removed from the final assessments for Theatre students in 2021/22, the year was still a very busy one for the girls in their second year of the Diploma.

Students were tasked with creating a production concept for a published text and a 20-page director’s notebook detailing ideas for a production of that text was first up. This was followed in Term 2 by the delivery of an individual research presentation where students physically demonstrated their research into a performance convention of a theatre tradition they had not previously studied. A lovely piece of performance work was then on show in Term 3 as part of the HL solo theatre assessment.

This assessment requires the student to work from the multiple perspectives of actor, creator, director and designer. This year, Jessica Brunt, created a dynamic piece of multi-media theatre for an audience of her peers that focused on an aspect of Peter Brook’s Transformational Theatre. The performance themed on the imbalance of power in heterosexual relationships. Music, dance, Shakespeare, Ibsen and feminist theory were all brought together in a thought-provoking and well-received piece that proved a great way to round off the performance year for the seniors. IB Theatre is a demanding and rigorous programme, and produces highly creative work from its students. Well done to the Theatre students of 2022.

The Year 10 Drama option class successfully completed a demanding programme that focused on the study of a variety of theatre forms. These included Children’s Theatre, Victorian Melodrama, and a study of mask and its application in performance over a range of cultures. Tasks associated with these topics involved improvisation, collaboration, set design and devising. Each unit of work concluded with some excellent performances by the students, exemplifying the theatre form studied. Both Terms 2 and 4 ended strongly for Year 9 Drama students, as they performed lunchtime musicals for their peers and family. ‘Willie Wonka’ was the choice mid-year and ‘Annie’ for the second half-semester. The students applied techniques learned in their curriculum programme and demonstrated an impressive development of skills in acting, singing, directing, and choreography in performance. Over the span of the year, Year 7 and 8 students completed half-year programmes in Drama. This work included clowning, performance poetry, and devising original dramas. As always, it was wonderful to witness the level of creative thinking, collaborative skills, and developing confidence levels of the students over the course of their studies.

Melodramas House Performing Arts Day House Performing Arts day. Lots of song, dance, theatre and dressing up. What’s not to like? The year levels are assigned different challenges in the overall competition and for Year 10 it’s a 5-minute melodrama (with a very loose use of the term ‘melodrama’ it should be noted) based on a given theme. This year the theme was ‘The day a pop diva saved QMC’.

Once the scripts had been created, agonised over and passed muster by the drama teachers, rehearsals began. As this coincided with the music rehearsals for the house songs, the Junior school song and the Year 8 dance, Term 2 was a buzz of creativity and action from the students. Two weeks out from the day itself, each house was assigned a time for a melodrama feedback session from one of the drama teachers, which focused on ensuring that the piece was visually interesting and that the students were honouring the dynamics required to be heard in a hall full of students cheering, or booing, them on, as the case may be.

Come the day the performances were as much fun as ever. All of the students rose to the moment in a rush of adrenaline and competition. The pieces were marked on originality, links to theme, appropriate acting techniques, specific melodrama features used, and overall impact. Stirling came out winners with their technique and attention to the marking criteria, putting them a little bit in front of Berwick. Well done to all five of the Year 10 House Leaders and their houses for their hard work, and for the hilarity and entertainment they provided on the day.

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IB Theatre

Speech & Drama SPEECH & DRAMA

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2022 was a successful year in Speech and Drama with 157 students in total.

There were two teachers of Speech and Drama, Linda Dring and Kerry Kleinsman.

Examinations were held throughout the year and there was a 100% pass rate in these exams.

Junior and Middle School Speech New Zealand Examination Results 100 students from Junior and Middle School sat Speech New Zealand examinations in Term 4 and the outstanding result of Honours Plus and Honours was achieved by the following:

Honours Plus Results

Honours Results

Grade 5 Flexi Syllabus Isabelle Mak

Grade 5 Flexi Syllabus Karmen Zhou, Keira Wratt, Ananyaa Dharmarajan

Grade 4 Flexi Syllabus Arshiya Tuli, Meredith Williams Imogen Pyne, Aaryana Ganesh, Isabella Mosser, Lucy Trenberth

Grade 4 FS Senali Vasanthathilake, Alesiana Mason Macdonald, Lucy Gittings, Elisabeth Patrick, Amelia Williams, Philippa Taylor, Billie Every-Palmer, Carey Chen, Rayleen Wong, Mina Scheid, Teresa Li

Grade 3 FS Molly Jones Grade 2 FS Pippa Cottier, Viktorie Fukac Grade 1 FS Ellie Burke Initial FS Samira Peake, Grace Zhen

Grade 3 FS Louisa Choquette, Tessa Park, Ruby Martin, Christina Chen, Emerson Langford Grade 2 FS Celia Baker, Harriet Mak, Elaine Fu, Ashley Nixon, Alexandra Miller, Emily Candler, Sarah Zhou, Claudia Barnes, Ruby Kung, Jinghan Wang, Gloria Wu Grade 1 FS Alyssa Gu, Ana Radu-Garrett Initial Flexi Syllabus Nicole Li, Chloe Xie, Ariana Arapis, Sarah Crowley, Ashleigh Liu

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Senior Examination Results 20 seniors sat Speech New Zealand examinations throughout the year and the outstanding result of Honours Plus and Honours was achieved by the following:

Honours Plus Results

Honours Results

Grade 8 Flexi-Syllabus Sarah Caddis, Claire Ryan, Jessica Brunt, Imogen Kennedy-Smith

Grade 8 Seraphine Benn passed the three modules of Grade 8, Speech and Drama syllabus with Honours.

Grade 7 Divya Srinivasa passed a module of Grade 7 with Honours plus.

Grade 7 Stella Donson passed a module of Grade 7 with Honours.

Grade 6 Flexi Syllabus Zena Murphy

G7 Flexi Syllabus Rachel Lian

Grade 6 Sophie Hearns completed Grade 6 Speech and Drama syllabus.

Grade 6 Flexi Syllabus Ishi Kakroo, Evie McHale, Siam Hartley passed Grade 6 Flexi Syllabus.

Theatre-in-Action Grade 5 Honours Audrey Kung, Yovela Li Oral Communication Advanced Intermediate Distinction Angelica Yiappos, Madeline Kilgariff, Zara Ali-Sakoufakis

Advanced Senior Distinction Gabrielle Clark Highly Commended Sophia Ali-Sakoufakis, Tiana Brabant English for Speakers of Other Languages: Muly (Thipphaphone) Malavong: Intermediate grade with Distinction Yolanda Du: Foundation grade with Distinction

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