By the end of Level A, students communicate about artworks they make and view by reacting to sensory elements within artwork.
Students assist in the making of artworks in different forms using different techniques.
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level A
By the end of Level B, students indicate what they like about artworks they make and view.
Students make artworks using different techniques and processes and make simple choices on the use of materials.
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level B
By the end of Level C, students communicate about artworks they make and view.
Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas and observations, using different techniques and processes.
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level C
By the end of Level D, students describe artworks they make and view.
Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using different materials, techniques and processes.
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level D
By the end of Level 2, students make artworks using different materials, techniques and processes to express their ideas, observations and imagination.
Students describe artworks they make and view, including where and why artworks are made and viewed.
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 1 and 2
The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...
Overview material | Visual Arts
By the end of Level 4, students plan and make artworks that are inspired by artworks they experience. They use materials, visual conventions, techniques and processes to express their ideas in artworks.
Students discuss how artists express ideas and use materials, techniques and visual conventions...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 3 and 4
In Level B, students explore visual arts. They explore how visual arts can represent ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.
Students become aware how artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas. They explore how their ideas can be developed. They enhance their perception...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
By the end of Level 6, students explain how ideas are expressed in artworks they make and view. They demonstrate the use of different techniques and processes in planning and making artworks .They use visual conventions and visual arts practices to express ideas, themes and concepts in their artworks.
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 10, students analyse and evaluate how artists communicate ideas and convey meaning in artworks.
Students identify the influences of other artists and analyse connections between techniques, processes and visual conventions in artworks to develop their own art practice. They...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students identify, analyse and evaluate how other artists use materials, techniques, technologies, processes and visual conventions to express ideas and convey meaning.
Students plan and make their art works in response to exploration of techniques, technologies and processes...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8
In Levels 5 and 6, students explore how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual forms, practices and processes. They develop conceptual and expressive skills.
As they make and respond to visual artworks, students explore a diversity of ideas, concepts...
Level description | The Arts | 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
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
The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Visual Arts Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring, imagining, experimenting and expressing ideas, concepts, themes, values, beliefs, observations... |
Overview material | Visual Arts
In Levels 9 and 10, students build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual arts practices. They refine their personal aesthetic through working and responding perceptively as an artist, craftsperson or audience. They identify...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts
