We have a vibrant Creative & performing Arts faculty here at Cashmere High School, and our dedicated team welcomes three new staff members for 2022.

Mr Zilber (pictured left) joins the music department, Ms Doole (pictured right) joins the art department & Ms Randall (pictured middle) is our new Dance teacher.

Exciting times ahead & with some fabulous additional co-curricular events and opportunities for both our students and community. You can keep up to date with the latest on each departments facebook page and of course the school website;

https://www.facebook.com/Cashmere-High-School-Drama-and-Dance-287765121974438/

https://www.facebook.com/cashmerehighmusic/

Check the school website for the Art Department instagram links.

Although there was a slight postponement of the October Music finals into November, this compilation of images shows just some of the wonderful performances and awards from that event to get you excited about the upcoming events for 2022…

Congratulations to all the participants and award winners.

You will notice some TBC dates on the Music Events calendar at the moment, this will be updated as soon as things are confirmed.

Music activities sign up started in Week one with auditions Week 2 & activities beginning in Week 3.

2022 is a major Production year, the performances will happen the last week of Term 2 and so much goes into putting on a production of this scale, that auditions for it will begin in Week 4 Term 1.

It was unfortunate that the spectacular Dance showcase at the end of last year was not able to have a large public audience due to Covid restrictions, so I hope this image compilation goes some way to show just how incredible our dancers are, the skill and variety of their performances were of such an incredibly high standard.

So we look forward to all the performances 2022 will bring…

Entries for the Creators Room 2022 closed at the end of November and once again CHS is represented well by the following students;

Jessica Cournane, Joseph Davidson-Labout, Ashley Flanagan, Jack Gormley, Tilly Harris, Alexa Kearns, Phoebe Laird, Maria Laurie & Breana Vosper.

Congratulations to all these students who have had their work selected, a wonderful boost to their ongoing Artistic endeavours. If you are not aware of the Creators Room support of young artists, please visit https://www.thecreatorsroom.co.nz where you can also purchase limited edition prints.

There are a number of external opportunities that come up throughout the year which will be advertised on the school website and in the notices. Some of these are annual events such as the National Youth Art Award. This is a prestigious exhibition and I’m thrilled that CHS student Liv Wilson took the opportunity and has had her work selected, well done!

Congratulations to the following Arts Faculty students, what an amazing way to end 2021…

• First Art History 201 Islay Doscher-Ozanne
• First Art History 301 Izzy France
• Excellence Art History 301 Phoebe Laird
• First Performing Arts Technology Isla McLarin
• Excellence Drama 101 Hannah Winchester
• First Drama 101 Rosalie Defregger
• Excellence Drama 201 Isaac Macdonald
• First Drama 201 Polly Daniels
• First Drama 301 Oscar Parkes, Elise Mann
• First Dance 201 Hayley Gibson
• First Dance 301 Shayla Hann
• Excellence Music Studies 101 Orla Dunlop
• First Contemporary Music 121 Thomas Johnson
• First Music Studies 101 Clara Dujakovic
• First Music Studies 201 Kaito Ito
• First Contemporary Music 221 Yuji de Burgh-Hirabe
• The Thomas Fastier Memorial Award - Outstanding All round Performance in Music - Yuyu Saito
• First Contemporary Music 321 Jono Blackie
• First Music Studies 301 Jules Hlavac

Excellence in Year 11 Art

Marlonique Wolmarans & Tilly Harris

Excellence Art 101

Zach Curtis, Zoe Collier, Sienna Garrick, Jordi Wright-Stow

First Art 101

Marlonique Wolmarans & Tilly Harris

Excellence Level 2 Painting

Ed Daniell

First Level 2 Printmaking

Rātā Airey & Flora Dean

First Level 2 Painting

Jack Gormley

First Photography

Joseph Davidson-Labout

First Level 2 Art Design

Ed Daniell

Excellence Level 3 Art Painting

Phoebe Laird & Hinnie Hobeyn

Excellence Level 3 Art Design

Talia Garrick

First Level 3 Art Printmaking

Ali O’Keefe-Dickie

First Level 3 Art Painting & Margaret Hudson Ware Cup - Excellence in Yr 13 Painting

Breana Vosper

Doris Lusk Award - Excellence in Drawing

Skyler Morison

Academic Excellence in the Arts

Breana Vosper

Sonya Harkerss Memorial Trophy - Dedication to the Fine Arts

Hinnie Hobeyn

And... Hot off the press - This wonderful success story. Not one but two CHS Students selected for the National Top Art Exhibition! This is a touring exhibition that travels around the country to inspire students and teachers alike and always draws a crowd.

This Art Design folio by Timothy Thomas has been selected, it is about The Otautahi Outlaws, a hypothetical Ice Hockey team based right here in Otautahi/Christchurch.

Painting folio by Breana Vosper has also been selected (pictured earlier). This is now the second year in a row that Cashmere High School Students have had the honour of being selected for this exhibition, Amazing… Well done Timothy & Breana!

Later in Term One we will announce details of Art club & Knitting club so watch the school notices and website for more information.

So I think you’ll agree 2021 was quite a year… and full of massive achievements for our arts faculty students across all areas of the school. Music students Reuben Clarkson received the Cartwright Prize: Academic Excellence in Year 13 - The Dux, Will Hanlon - The Foundation Pupils' All Round Excellence Prize and Proxime Accessit (runner up to Dux), Jules Hlavac - Gary Thin Cup for Academic Music, Yuyu Saito - Thomas Fastier Memorial Award to Outstanding all Round Performance in Music, Lucy Watt - Chapman Cup - Academic Excellence in Year 12 (Dux of Year 12) and Clara Dujakovic - Murdoch Cup - Academic Excellence in Year 11.

Eight of the Students shortlisted for Head Student, all were from the Arts - Incredible - Well done!