Specialist Programmes

Music

The school's Music Programme offers a number of opportunities for students to develop and extend their talents. The aim of our School Music Programme is to expose students of all musical abilities to a range of musical experiences, in an attempt to extend their musical knowledge. The school places great emphasis on enabling all students to perform to an audience.

Visual Art

Visual Art is one of four disciplines in The Arts in New Zealand Curriculum. Students will apply knowledge of elements and principles to make objects and images; generate and develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, using imagination, observation, and conventions with materials. Emphasis is also given to interpretation of ideas of their own, and others' work.

Technology

Technology at Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School focuses on the aims of Technology as outlined in the new Technology Curriculum Document. Namely:

Technological Knowledge and Understanding, Technological Capability, Technology and Society
It teaches at the level of the individual child and allows for extension and personal growth as the individual child develops. Technology programmes in schools should allow for exposure to the following areas of Technology.
Bio Technology, Production & Process Technology, Electronics & Control Technology, Food Technology, Biotechnology Structures & Mechanisms, Information & Communication, Hard Materials Technology, Soft Materials Technology

Design, drawing and graphics are an essential component of all Technological areas, encompassing a wide range of curriculum contexts that vary between the areas and particular objectives chosen. These areas link with the curriculum subjects ofMathematics, Language, Science, Social Studies, Arts, and Health and Physical Well Being.