Drama
This year was chock full of change for the drama department as
it transitioned from one long-serving HOD (Tim Walton) to a new
face (Matt Brebner) and installed the new matrix for drama at
Level 3. Add the rigours of a full school musical, the biannual trip
to Sydney and a raft of smaller trips, productions and live performance assessments and you have one very big year for one of the
school’s smaller departments.
After school on offer, with muchattended by hilarity echoing through
drama was well improvised our juniors throughout
the three terms
the 100 block on Wednesday afternoons. A particular thank you goes
to Mr Walton who ran the majority of these boisterous sessions. The
quality of junior theatre sports seen in this year’s house competition
is a direct reflection of the confidence gained by our students through
these after school sessions.
Year 11: responded to the challenges of NCEA Level 1 with some highly creative
Our students
examples of dramatised poetry, original melodramas and convincing scripted pieces.
They also had the privilege of workshopping with writer/director Jamie McCaskill when
he staged his powerful prison drama, Manawa, in our auditorium for a week in August.