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
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
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 Levels 1 and 2, students develop their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers express their ideas through different art forms. They enhance their perception skills as they examine and express familiar and new objects and events in their lives. They explore how and why...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations using images, sound and text. Manipulating... |
Overview material | Media Arts
In Levels 1 and 2, students continue their exploration and learning about how ideas and stories can be imagined and communicated through drama. They improvise and create roles, characters and situations and learn about focus and identifying the main idea of the drama. They share their drama with...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
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
VCADRD010 | The Arts | Drama | Level C | Drama Practices
VCADRD022 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Drama Practices
VCADRD006 | The Arts | Drama | Level B | Drama Practices
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
