The Arts

The Arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. The term ‘creativity’ plays a critical role in all five arts subjects: Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts. Together they provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences, as they discover and interpret the world.

Our specialist staffs’ knowledge, enthusiasm and professionalism allows students to learn, develop and refine their skills and techniques in the performing and visual arts. Concerts, musical productions, exhibitions, excursions, incursions and tours provide students with enrichment and extension and the opportunity to perform and display their wide range of talents.

Students engaged in The Arts Learning Area are assessed in the following two outcomes:

• Making: Making in each Arts subject engages students’ cognition, imagination, senses and emotions in conceptual and practical ways and involves thinking kinaesthetically, critically and creatively. Students develop knowledge and skills to plan, produce, present, design and perform in each arts subject independently and collaboratively. Students work from an idea, an intention, particular resources, an imaginative impulse, or an external stimulus.
• Responding: Responding in each Arts subject involves students reflecting, analysing, interpreting and evaluating in the Arts. Students learn to appreciate and investigate the Arts through contextual study. Learning through making is interrelated with, and dependent upon, responding. Students learn by reflecting on their making and responding to the making of others. The points of view students hold, shift according to different experiences in the Arts.

• Music Learning Pathways
• Performing Arts Learning Pathways
• Visual Arts Learning Pathways