In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
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
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
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 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 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
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 Level A, students are exposed to visual arts to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience visual representations of their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.
Students become aware of artists, craftspeople and...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
In Level C, students explore visual arts. They explore and learn about how to make visual representations of their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.
Students become aware of how artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas. They learn how their ideas can be developed....
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
In Level D, students explore visual arts. They learn about how to make visual representations of their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.
Students become aware of how and begin to explore why artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas through different visual representations...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
In Levels 3 and 4, students explore how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different art forms. They enhance their perceptual skills by observing the world around them and expressing these observations through different practical applications of art making....
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to visual artworks. They design and create visual expressions of selected themes and concepts through a variety of visual arts forms and styles. Students develop an informed opinion about artworks based on their research of current and past artists....
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
By the end of Level 10 students analyse and evaluate the visual communications they make and view, and how visual communications from different historical, social and cultural contexts communicate ideas and information.
Within visual communication fields, students develop briefs and visualise,...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Communication Design | Levels 9 and 10
In levels 9 and 10, students build on their awareness of how designers communicate ideas with a specific purpose, to a targeted audience, using different visual communication design practices and viewpoints. They refine their personal aesthetic through their development of knowledge, understanding...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Communication Design
In Levels 7 and 8, students research and investigate the practices and viewpoints of designers in the creation of visual communications and gain an understanding of how to visually communicate ideas to an audience. They experiment and develop their skills in creative, critical and reflective thinking...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Communication Design
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
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
