The Arts entertain, inform, challenge, inspire, and enrich our knowledge of self, communities, world cultures and histories.
The Arts contribute to the development of confident and creative individuals, nurturing and challenging active and informed citizens. Learning in the Arts is based on cognitive, affective and sensory/kinaesthetic response to arts practices as students revisit increasingly complex content, skills and processes with developing confidence and sophistication through the years of schooling.
Drama
Drama knowledge and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop:
- Confidence, empathy and self-awareness to explore, depict and celebrate human experience, take risks and extend their own creativity through drama
- Knowledge of how to analyse, apply and control the elements, skills, techniques, processes, conventions, forms and styles of drama in traditional and contemporary drama to engage and create meaning for audiences
- Knowledge of the role of group processes and design and technology in the creative process of devising and interpreting drama to make meaning for audiences
- Knowledge of traditional and contemporary drama through responding as critical and active participants and audience members.
Media Arts
Media Arts knowledge and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop:
- Confidence to participate in, experiment with, and interpret the media-rich culture and communications practices that surround them
- Aesthetic knowledge developed through exploration of imagery, text and sound to express ideas, concepts and stories using effective teamwork strategies to produce media artwork
- Creative and critical thinking skills to explore different perspectives in media as producers and consumers
- Awareness of their active participation in local and global media cultures, including using safe media practices when publishing online materials.
Music
Music knowledge and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
- Develop the confidence to be creative, innovative, thoughtful, skilful and informed musicians
- Develop skills and techniques to actively listen, analyse, improvise, compose and perform music
- Interpret and apply the elements of music, engaging with a diverse array of musical experiences as performers and audience members
- Develop aesthetic appreciation and respect for their own and others’ music practices and traditions across different times, places, cultures and contexts.
Photography
Photography knowledge and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
- Learn and apply the elements and principles of design through photography, including composition, framing and visual balance
- Work both independently and collaboratively to plan, capture and edit photographic images
- Explore advertising photography by analysing how images communicate messages and influence audiences
- Create advertising materials by combining photographs with text, developing skills in visual communication and design
Visual Arts
Visual Arts knowledge and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
- Demonstrate confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment when engaged in visual arts making
- Apply visual arts techniques, materials, processes and technologies to create artworks through the design and inquiry process
- Apply visual language and critical creative thinking skills when creating and responding to artwork
- Develop aesthetic, artistic and cultural appreciation of visual arts in past and contemporary contexts, both as artists and art critics.
