In Levels 9 and 10, students refine and extend their understanding and use of structure, intent, character, settings, viewpoints and genre conventions in their compositions. As they use media technologies they extend the use of media elements such as time, space, sound, movement and lighting....
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts
In Levels 3 and 4, students extend their understanding of key concepts of media arts such as the use of media technologies, story principles of structure, intent, character and settings, and use the media arts elements of composition and sound. They consider themselves as audiences and explore...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts
In Levels 1 and 2, students explore media arts and experiment with story and elements of media arts. They develop an understanding of a range of media artworks. They make and share their media artworks as artists and audience.
Students become aware of structure, intent, character and settings as...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts
By the end of Foundation, students sing and play instruments to communicate their experiences and ideas. They explore contrasting sounds and improvise with them. Students match pitch when singing. They understand and respond to the beat and simple rhythm patterns.
Students describe the music to...
Level description | The Arts | Music | Foundation Level
In Level A, students are exposed to music to assist them to listen to and explore sound and attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They listen to and explore sound and experience how they can make music. They experience music as part of an audience.
Student...
Level description | The Arts | Music
In Level B, students explore music. They listen to and explore sound and how music can represent the world and that they can make music. They share their music with peers and experience music as part of an audiences.
Students learn to listen to music and experience rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression...
Level description | The Arts | Music
In Level C, students explore music. They listen to and explore sound and learn about how music can represent the world and that they can make music to represent their ideas. They share their music with peers and experience music as part of an audience.
Students learn to listen to music and explore...
Level description | The Arts | Music
In Level D, students explore music. They listen to and explore sound and learn about how music can represent the world and that they can make music to represent their ideas about the world. They share their music with peers and experience music as audiences.
Students learn to listen to music and...
Level description | The Arts | Music
By the end of Level 8, students manipulate the elements of music and stylistic conventions to improvise, compose and perform music. They use evidence from listening and analysis to interpret, rehearse and perform songs and instrumental pieces in unison and in parts, demonstrating technical and...
Level description | The Arts | Music | Levels 7 and 8
In Levels 5 and 6, Music involves students continuing to listen to, improvise, compose, arrange and perform music, independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students explore more complex aspects of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre...
Level description | The Arts | Music
In Levels 1 and 2, students listen to and experiment with a range of sounds. They develop skills in imagining and creating and performing music which explores their ideas about the world. Students share their music with peers. They present music for school events and experience diverse music as...
Level description | The Arts | Music
In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to music independently and collaboratively, with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students using listening skills to identify and make decisions about how they can manipulate rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, and timbre...
Level description | The Arts | Music
In the Victorian Curriculum F–10, the Arts includes Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design.
The Arts enable students to develop their creative and expressive capacities by learning about the different practices, disciplines and traditions that have shaped...
Overview material | The Arts
In Dance, students explore the elements of dance, skills, techniques and processes through the practices of choreography, performance and appreciation. The body is the instrument of expression and students use combinations of the elements of dance: space, time, dynamics and relationships, to communicate...
Overview material | Dance
The Dance curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Dance Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on exploring and shaping ideas to express and communicate intentions. Students... |
Overview material | Dance
Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of drama, develop skills, apply techniques and process and use materials and technologies as they explore a range of forms...
Overview material | Drama
Drama is the expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning as drama makers, performers and audiences as they enjoy and analyse their own and others’ stories and points...
Overview material | Drama
The curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Drama Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on imagining and creating characters, roles and situations. Students... |
Overview material | Drama
In Media Arts students engage with communications technologies and cross-disciplinary art forms to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio, screen-based or hybrid artworks. Students explore, view, analyse and participate in media culture from a range of viewpoints...
Overview material | Media Arts
The Media Arts curriculum encompasses the fields of media, art and design. In Media Arts, students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express their own and others’ ideas, as both artist and audience. They develop their perceptual and conceptual understandings...
Overview material | Media Arts