QA News June 2010 - Issue 68
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Leaders of the future
- Qualification design rules out for consultation
- University Entrance being reviewed
- Marking External Assessment (MEA) Pilot
- Annual Report on NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship
- Moderator-teacher agreement rates rising
- Excellence in unit standards
- Adult Education and Training Qualifications
- Check out National Qualifications Services
- Quality Assurance for Mātauranga Maori
- Feedback positive on kaiako and whānau workshops
- NZQA to contribute to OECD education review
- Top Art on tour
Top Art on tour
NZQA's annual Top Art exhibition is halfway through its 2010 tour around New Zealand.
Top Art represents a selection of the top Visual Art portfolios from students throughout New Zealand. All portfolios included in the exhibition achieved Excellence at NCEA level 3.
The students’ work represents some of the best in each of the five areas of NCEA Visual Arts: Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Design, and Sculpture. The exhibition also features information provided by the students about the development of their work.
The two groups of 27 Visual Arts portfolios have been on display since late March at schools, museums, and galleries throughout the South Island, Upper Hutt, Auckland and Northland.
Over the next two months the first group of portfolios will be on display at venues throughout the upper and central North Island, including the Unitec School of Design in Mount Albert, Auckland from 2–6 August.
Tayla Yandall from Mount Albert Grammar School is among the students whose work will be on display in her hometown. Her portfolio is titled: Tribute to Mema Talaipo Leitava. She says “I wanted to record my nana’s life and family history, as well as celebrating our culture and heritage.”
The second group of portfolios will be on display at venues in the upper South Island and lower and central North Island, including the New Dowse in Lower Hutt from 21- 25 June.
Lower Hutt students, Lauren Oakes, Chilton Saint James School, and Rosanna Smith, Saint Oran's College, are among those whose work will be on display at the New Dowse.
Top Art provides an opportunity for this year's level 3 visual art students to see first-hand a range of high-calibre art produced by their peers, and to gain an idea of what they need to aim for in order to achieve Excellence themselves.
The exhibition is also a great opportunity for members of the public to see the impressive work which New Zealand students are producing.
Part of Tayla Yandall’s photography portfolio: Tribute to Mema Talaipo Leitava.
Part of Rosanna Smith’s painting portfolio: Untitled
Further information about dates and venues is available at: http://www.topart.govt.nz/