Owhango School – bringing the arts back into our curriculum

Owhango School is a very small, full primary school situated in the middle of the North Island, close to Mt Ruapehu.

Leaders and staff at the school made a decision in 2018 to bring the performing arts back into the teaching and learning in their school. They consider the performing arts to be an area that deserves attention in the era of post National Standards (archived), where there is more emphasis on cross-curricular learning.

Target

To support the children to become more confident and competent in the performing arts learning area of the curriculum.

To collect baseline data, teachers constructed and conducted a survey asking about the children’s confidence and competence in the performing arts. You can download a PDF of the survey below.

Performing Arts Survey (PDF 258 KB)