Music
Students have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of music groups,including: vocal groups, string orchestra, symphonic band and rock bands. In addition the Music Department offers quality instruction on a broad range of musical instruments. Extra-curricular tuition is provided by a first-rate team of itinerant and part-time specialist tutors.
Dance
Students have an opportunity to participate in Dance from Year 9 onwards.
Dance is offered at National Certificate in Education Achievement level 1 and 2. Students study a wide range of genre’s and styles such as Hip Hop, Contemporary Dance and Rock ‘n Roll. Senior students attend a range of live dance performances to widen their understanding of the different genre’s of Dance. A range of outside tutors from within the professional dance industry help to extend and support the students learning. For those students that want to share the latest dance moves and trends, the Fairfiel d Dance crew recruits a number of junior and senior students over the school year.
Drama
Drama is a very strong part of performing arts in our school. All Drama Achievement standards are assessed by
performance and there are many extra-curricular opportunities as well. Theatresports is played throughout the year with the juniors practising on Thursday between 3.15 and 4.00pm and the seniors practising on Friday also between 3.15 and 4.00pm. Both our senior and junior teams play in the Waikato Secondary Schools’ Theatresports competition which runs from February to August. The seniors won this competition in both 2006 and 2007 and were second in 2008.
Fairfield has also done well in the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival in recent years. Various performers won best
actor awards in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and in 2009 Fairfield won the best fifteen minute scene and the group who performed The Tempest went to Wellington for the National Sheilah Winn Shakespeare competition.
Every year we also enter scenes in the Junior Shakespeare Competition held at Hillcrest in early November.
So if drama is your thing there are plenty of opportunities at Fairfield College.
