In Foundation level, students explore music. They experiment with diverse sounds and discover how they can be effectively combined. They share their music with peers and experience a range of music as audiences.
Students learn to listen and respond to music, becoming aware of the elements of...
Level description | The Arts | Music
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 2 students use imagination, their voices and instruments to improvise, compose, arrange and perform music. They explore and make decisions about ways of organising sounds to communicate ideas. They achieve intended effects and demonstrate accuracy when performing and composing.
Th...
Level description | The Arts | Music | Levels 1 and 2
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 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
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
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
In Music, students listen to, compose and perform music in a wide range of styles from diverse cultures, times and locations. Listening underpins all music learning. Students compose and perform music using the voice, body, instruments, found sound sources, and digital technologies. As composers...
Overview material | Music
Music is uniquely an aural art form. The essential nature of music is abstract. Music encompasses existing sounds that are selected and shaped; new sounds created by composers and performers, and the placement of sounds in time and space. Composers, performers and listeners perceive and...
Overview material | Music
Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with and develop knowledge of visual arts, skills, techniques and processes, and use materials as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts.
Through...
Overview material | Visual Arts
Visual Arts includes the fields of art, craft and design. Students create visual art works that communicate, challenge and express their own and others’ ideas. They develop perceptual and conceptual understanding, critical reasoning and practical skills through exploring and expanding...
Overview material | Visual Arts
In Visual Communication Design, students develop the skills and practice to communicate ideas and messages in visual communications. Visual communication design practice includes the use of design thinking skills and design as a process. Drawing conventions and the use of design elements and principles...
Overview material | Visual Communication Design
VCADAD043 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 9 and 10 | Dance Practices
VCADAD036 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 7 and 8 | Dance Practices
VCADAD014 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Dance Practices
VCADAD018 | The Arts | Dance | Foundation Level | Dance Practices