Art

The Art Department at Māngere College teaches incremental Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking skills and ideas, which are progressively individualised.

At all levels and in both disciplines, students are asked to use Art-making to develop, clarify and communicate ideas.

The visual and conceptual ideas that are explored are derived from students making analytical and inferential responses to relevant culturally inclusive Artworks.

 This establishes the foundation for students to develop an individual and personal approach to creative thinking, problem-solving and a variety of innovation skills that are inherently transferrable across the wider curriculum as well as into any future endeavour.

Our programs are culturally responsive, based on explorations of personal and collective identity concerning both the immediate physical environment and the remembered and imagined environment of origin.

In Visual Art, students are encouraged to make positive learning decisions and become independent learners, co-constructing some of the individualized learning resources with the teacher

For many years, the Art Department has consistently performed highly in the NCEA assessment, with success rates above the national average in both the internal and external assessment. We are aspirational in our approach to student success, with almost all Art students passing NCEA Art at Level 1, 2, and 3, with significant numbers of Merit and Excellence subject endorsements each year.

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Topics Covered in Art at Mangere College:

Year 9 and 10

Below are foundation topics introduced for the NCEA scaffold:

· Plant-based Maori and Pasifika patterns

· Basic figurative drawing

· Mangere Mountain

· Emblems of Pasifika paradise

Year 11 

- Cultural identity explored and remembered,

- Aotearoa in the Pacific

Year 12 and 13 

- Aotearoa and our place in the world.

Here the focus is on inquiry through curiosity. Students will select artist models and art topics that reflect their own identity. For students, years 12 and 13 are integrated into a progressive individual journey.