--- title: 'Performing & Visual Arts' url: 'https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/learning-areas/performing-visual-arts' markdown: 'https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/learning-areas/performing-visual-arts.md' date: '2026-09-14' description: 'Performing & Visual Arts encourages students to express feeling, emotion, and opinion Creativity - one of the top five skills employers prize for the 21st Century. The Arts encourage students to think on their feet and approach tasks from different perspectives. Confidence - performance gives …' --- # Performing & Visual Arts Performing Arts Drama, Music, Dance ![production](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/3/5/7/e/7/357e7b1094812f3544d107363e9991e11e4aef69-production.jpg "production") Visual Arts Design, Painting & Photography ![via arts banner](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/user/pages/08.learning-areas/03.performing-visual-arts/vis%20arts%20banner.jpg "via arts banner") ##### Performing & Visual Arts encourages students to express feeling, emotion, and opinion - Creativity - one of the top five skills employers prize for the 21st Century. The Arts encourage students to think on their feet and approach tasks from different perspectives. - Confidence - performance gives students practise stepping out of their comfort zone and allows them to make mistakes and learn from them in rehearsals. This process gives students confidence to perform in front of large audiences. - Problem Solving - the arts develop reasoning skills that prepare students to solve problems. Students who study the Arts are more likely to approach problems with patience and persistence. - Perseverance - Arts education develops students’ capacity to persist in the face of a challenge. Through Art study, students improve their ability to overcome difficulty in completing complex tasks and sustain attention. - Reflection - feedback and reflection is a constant part of the learning process and is a means to challenge themselves to push beyond what they think they are capable of doing. - Collaboration - in the Arts students learn to articulate their intentions, receive and offer criticism as well as listen to others ideas. - Critical Thinking - an Arts education develops students’ critical thinking skills, including skills for comparing, hypothesizing, critiquing and exploring multiple and alternative viewpoints. ##### Our Facilities Performing Arts - Our beautiful Performing Arts Centre is not only available to our students but can also be hired by the public. It is the perfect space for performances or presentations. - Our theatre boasts a 14m x 9m sprung floor stage and seats 330 people with uninterrupted views. - With an extra large projector screen, high quality lighting rig and sound system, we are very fortunate to offer such an amazing learning/performance space to our students and community. Visual Arts - Our department has modern and very well resourced teaching spaces with light filled classrooms situated at the front of the school. - Two large computer suites for our increasingly popular digital art courses. - A professional studio photography lighting space. - A large darkroom in which our students learn the magic of black and white photography. ##### Our Students “Arts learning taps into students imagination, creative instincts and self-worth in ways that other lessons do not.” - The TALE Project Manaakitanga Awards in the Performing Arts at GBHS are presented to a senior student in each discipline who nurtures a culture that values caring and respect and provides the foundation for success for all students. Additional Opportunities in the Arts Art History, Dance, Design, Drama, Music, Painting, Photography, Sculpture ![singing group](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/d/7/d/0/4/d7d042cd98764479c424a6b894c74381cb03b30d-singing-group.jpg "singing group") Acapella Group Singing [Acapella Group Singing](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![clowns](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/1/f/2/f/8/1f2f81a6aeddfb1e5d8ec75bf916ff3a1937f5ad-clowns.jpg "clowns") Arts Showcase Performances [Arts Showcase Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![dance club](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/a/e/3/5/e/ae35e42e197fc29c126baa3606f94480a39a6a85-dance-club.jpg "dance club") Dance Club Performances [Dance Club Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![dance](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/a/f/f/f/4/afff4e190560f8b2f2790c0715a52bd6bd8b2dec-dance.jpg "dance") Dance Showcase Performances [Dance Showcase Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![dare to devise](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/0/f/d/e/5/0fde53a060c445ad4828069b043ec41c1333007e-dare-to-devise1.jpg "dare to devise") Dare to Devise Drama [Dare to Devise Drama](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![jazz](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/f/6/e/d/0/f6ed00f363ba1ed5c0e979130df14be95a3bf470-music.jpg "jazz") Jazz Band Performances [Jazz Band Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![piano](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/5/6/6/e/7/566e7487a8912f3e67b999357749933221d78a1a-music-piano.jpg "piano") Music Showcase Performances [Music Showcase Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![open mic night](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/c/2/f/5/c/c2f5c5bda5c48c34826a1202f11f3735c2bf5e38-open-mic-night.jpg "open mic night") Open Mic Night Performances [Open Mic Night Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![play it strange](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/d/2/6/e/8/d26e8701a6117ba55127ce03c9fb428c3ddcad7b-play-it-strange.jpg "play it strange") Play it Strange Music [Play it Strange Music](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![performing arts](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/3/2/8/0/4/32804117aa3d10051d072c8c681a4d4fb53703ea-performing-arts.jpg "performing arts") Production Performances [Production Performances](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![marlo rocks](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/4/b/8/c/b/4b8cb0f20b42401dc736a6891dc7709051b55024-marlo-rocks.jpg "marlo rocks") Rock Bands Music [Rock Bands Music](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) ![shakespeare](https://greenbayhigh.school.nz/images/f/f/0/5/2/ff052e673b471352f3e3e95bc167181b062f023e-shakespeare.jpg "shakespeare") Shakespeare Drama Club [Shakespeare Drama Club](mailto:teresa.callaghan@greenbayhigh.school.nz) Calendar Oct 20 02VOC Volunteering (EOTC) 9:45am Salvation Army, New Lynn Oct 20 02VOC Volunteering (EOTC) 9:45am Salvation Army, New Lynn Oct 21 02VOC Volunteering (EOTC) #1 11:25am Kiwi Valley Farm Oct 21 02VOC Volunteering (EOTC) #1 11:25am Kiwi Valley Farm Oct 21 02VOC Volunteering (EOTC) #2 12:30pm Kiwi Valley Farm Oct 21 02VOC Volunteering (EOTC) #2 12:30pm Kiwi Valley Farm Oct 22 Football Refereeing (EOTC) 8:45am Crum Park Oct 22 Football Refereeing (EOTC) 8:45am Crum Park Oct 22 GBHS Sport Award Evening 6:30pm GBHS Auditorium Oct 22 GBHS Sport Award Evening 6:30pm GBHS Auditorium Oct 23 Kōtuitui Speech Competition (tbc) 8:40am Oct 23 Kōtuitui Speech Competition (tbc) 8:40am Oct 23 L2 Folio Exhibition 8:45am Oct 23 L2 Folio Exhibition 8:45am Oct 26 Labour Day - 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