Ewa Zielinska, Arts Coordinator, has been working alongside students and staff to offer a variety of activities for our rangatahi that support their creativity and hauora.

Community Concert at DELCIA Cafe

MGC students and teachers performed at the Winter Community Concert at Delicia Cafe organised by the cultural coordinator Ewa Zielińska and Liz McKay from Creative Kids. It was a very beautiful evening filled with great music, poetry, dance and even stand-up-comedy presented by Sophia Lower. Lava Tikeri sang with a music band from MBC and Jacinta Riordan entertained the audience with wonderful songs. Community Concert happens once a season. The next one is in Spring. 

Emotional Regulation workshops

Our cultural coordinator Ewa Zielińska has been running emotional regulation workshops supported by drama with our Y10 students since T1. Workshops are based on simple theatre games, breathing exercises, visualisations and mutuality and trust exercises.

This is a great opportunity to put an emphasis on continuing developing school values and culture, and improving communication that supports wellbeing, identity and belonging.

Everyday classrooms would greatly benefit from emotional regulation drama support especially now when post COVID-19 disruption is felt differently for each individual. Schools should allow learners time to process what they experienced and give them space for considering what next.

Wellbeing Wall

Week 5 was a Hauora / Wellbeing week at MGC. One of the activities was a lunchtime painting on a Wellbeing Wall. It became very popular and we had to extend it by another week. Lots of students enjoyed just hand painting or writing their names; others produced great pictures of flowers, animals, trees, etc. The two sides of the wall are going to be hung up in the C Block. 

Mural

A group of MGC students are designing a mural that is going to be painted at the back of the Old Library Building. The local artist Kylie Fleur has been helping the young artists to come up with a design that reflects their relation to the MGC’s values: Kotahitanga, Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga.