Carisbrook School is proud to offer a range of multi-leveled, culturally responsive and creative opportunities for our students to express themselves through The Arts. We pride ourselves on exposing our students to the many facets of The Arts from a young age with our Junior school participating with all students in the Otago Polyfest every second year through to every class experiencing and creating their own school wide production performance item.

At Carisbrook School we offer many opportunities for students to learn through The Arts including: school wide production, Stars on Stage, Polyfest, choir, Hip Hop, Dunedin Winter Festival, community events and many more. 

We believe that learning through The Arts opens up many opportunities for our students to express themselves such as:

• Wondering
• Discovering
• Questioning
• Finding answers
• Experimenting
• Problem solving
• Communicating (both listening and expressing their own ideas)
• Working with others for a common goal
• Using digital technology
• Making and creating costumes, props, choreography
• Sharing with an audience
• Contributing

Students can work behind the scenes and in the spotlight to present and perform on a Regional and National stage. Carisbrook school participates in as many regional performance opportunities that are offered to primary schools as possible.

Carisbrook offers the best primary school opportunities in Otago for hip hop dancers. The school currently holds the title of 1st place for two consecutive years in all of the Otago region, and 2nd place in the 2019 NZ primary school competition. A professionally trained dance teacher holds weekly lunchtime dance sessions which are offered to all students at all year levels.

Carisbrook school celebrates its melting pot of cultural diversity. There are many opportunities to learn the languages and arts of the many different cultural groups within the classroom. Students can opt into perform with the schools Kapa Haka and Pasifika group who perform at the Otago Polyfest and other community performances.