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IPA Families Welcomed Back on Campus for Hoʻike Night

Students on violin

ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY was thrilled to invite families back to campus for Hoʻike Night: A Celebration of Secondary Arts after last year’s hiatus. The annual event is organized by the Secondary Art department to celebrate the creativity of IPA’s secondary students and highlight the importance of the arts program in the Secondary curriculum.

Learning through creating: students express themselves through music composition

Grade 9 students in music class

Students in Ms. Healy’s music class can list music composition on their list of skills now that their music trimester has concluded. And they have their own original pieces of work to prove it. As their final class project, students were asked to compose and write their own original song and lyrics about any topic of their choice, as long as it followed IPA’s 5 agreements of aloha, mālama, hoʻolohe, kuleana, and pono.

IPA Celebrates the Arts at Hoʻike Night

Students glaze ceramic pots

IPA’s Secondary Arts were on display at the annual Hoʻike Night on December 6, 2019. It was an evening showcasing the creative artwork and music of our IPA secondary students.

Elementary Faculty Katherine Jones Honored with Poʻokela Award

Katerhine Jones

Katherine Jones, IPA’s Elementary Sustainability & Innovation Coordinator, was honored with a Poʻokela Award in the “Dance Choreographer/Movement Stage Combat” category for her work in “The Rocky Horror Show” at Mānoa Valley Theatre. This was Jones’ eighth Poʻokela Award, which are given out by the given out by the Hawaiʻi State Theatre Council.