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
By the end of Level 6, students structure movements in dance sequences and use elements of dance and choreographic devices to make dances that communicate ideas and intentions. They perform dances for audiences, demonstrating technical and expressive skills and safe dance practice.
Students explain...
Level description | The Arts | Dance | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 8, students devise, interpret and perform drama. They manipulate the elements of drama, narrative and structure to control and communicate meaning. They apply different performance styles and conventions to convey status, relationships and intentions. They use performance skills...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 10, students analyse how values and alternative viewpoints are portrayed in the media artworks they make, interact with and distribute.
Students use intent, structure, setting, characters and genre conventions to evaluate how technical and symbolic elements are manipulated to...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 4, students describe similarities and differences between media artworks they make and view. They discuss how and why they and others use images, sound and text to make and present media artworks. They identify the characteristics of audiences who view media artworks and the...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 3 and 4
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
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
VCADAE040 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Express Ideas
VCAMUE013 | The Arts | Music | Level D | Explore and Express Ideas
VCAMAM002 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level A | Media Arts Practices
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
Visual Communication Design conveys ideas and information to an audience through visual language. In Visual Communication Design students develop conceptual and aesthetic understandings about design solutions in the world around them. The ideation and visualisation of ideas and observational...
Overview material | Visual Communication Design
By the end of Level 10, students develop and sustain different roles and characters to realise dramatic intentions and engage audiences. They perform devised and scripted drama in different forms, styles and performance spaces. They plan, direct, produce, rehearse and refine performances. They...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students identify and analyse how representations of social values and viewpoints are portrayed in the media artworks they make, distribute and view.
Students use intent, structure, setting, characters and genre conventions to shape technical and symbolic elements for specific...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 7 and 8
In Levels 5 and 6, students develop their use of structure, intent, character and settings by incorporating viewpoints and genre conventions in their media art works. They explore and use media technologies and media elements such as time, space, sound, colour, movement and lighting, and evaluate...
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 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
VCAMAP007 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level B | Present and Perform
The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.
Strand | Explore and Represent Ideas | Media Arts Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations using images, sound and text. Manipulating... |
Overview material | Media Arts