DANCE Dance NZ Made 2020 Karamu High School has competed in the Dance NZ Made competition for many years and most of the students involved this year have competed before. A dedicated team developed a jazz dance titled ‘Physical’ to compete in the Dance NZ Made competition. The students involved were Amy Griffin, Erika Balestie Diaz, Jamie Hollway, Thea Morton and Sarah Weaver. On August 3 the team came 2nd in their division and 3rd overall, which qualified them to go to Nationals down in Palmerston North. The team participated in workshops throughout the day with a Spanish inspired jazz class and Hip Hop which everyone enjoyed. Karamu High School came 3rd overall at Nationals. The Year 13 students who competed this year are excited to see how Karamu will do next year in Dance NZ Made.
MEDIA STUDIES Despite the trials and tribulations of a global pandemic, the Karamu High School Media Studies programme continued both remotely and back in class. In Year 9, students made some entertaining stop motion animation films and some really good short films on bullying. At senior level, the challenge was a bit greater with the disruptions, but the performance of senior classes was fantastic. As usual, there were many entertaining films made in a variety of genres including comedy, documentary and drama. Unfortunately, because of Covid, such events as our annual trip to the Film Festival in Wellington and our day out at the Film Censor’s office were cancelled. In the internal NCEA assessments there were some outstanding results particularly in the Year 13 group: perhaps the best a class, as a whole, has done at Karamu. We are looking forward to a productive and positive year in 2021.
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