Music and Performing Arts
The College has purpose-built facilities for the teaching of music and performing arts. The school has a small jazz band and choir, in addition to solo performers and rock bands. The school also holds drama productions with sister school Carmel College, the most recent of which were Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar and Oliver and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Students of the College also formed the seminal New Zealand rock band, the Screaming Meemees.
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