The Arts: Drama - Below satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that a student can sometimes use voice and movement to express character, and can occasionally maintain focus and make some decisions to demonstrate character. They can identify some similarities and differences between …
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The Arts: Drama - Below satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can demonstrate role with some control; and can occasionally maintain focus and use movement, voice and gesture in a performance. The student can describe the setting of a play in basic terms.
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The Arts: Drama - Below satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
These student descriptions are based on two work samples that consist of a student performance and a short student interview of the students reflecting on their performance. An imagined student who might demonstrate below satisfactory in this task is …
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The Arts: Drama - Below satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student understands some of the conventions of performing a script. The student can identify some choices made to communicate to an audience.
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The Arts: Drama - Below satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can understand elements of a script and represent aspects of a play. The student can occasionally collaborate in workshops.
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Class performance: Under the sea – Below
During the course of a term, students participated in an annual musical theatre production as an integrated unit that developed their skills across Dance, Drama and Music. The theme was ‘under the sea’ and the Year 2 students collaborated with Year 6 …
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Class performance: Jimmie Jean and the Turtles - BELOW
Students studied the Great Barrier Reef in an integrated unit that involved English, Science and The Arts. They developed their understanding of sustainability and conservation in relation to the reef by artistically exploring the narrative of the stimulus …
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Scripted performance: Goldilocks and the Three Bears - BELOW
Students studied and reinterpreted the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in an integrated unit that involved English and The Arts. They participated in a process of playbuilding, in which they learned about Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, and …
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Readers theatre: Blueback - BELOW
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English and playbuilding in Drama. They developed their own character in an imaginary town meeting in Longboat Bay, the novel’s setting. They used these characters …
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Scripted performance: Goldfields - BELOW
Students studied the gold rushes and their impact on Australia and its peoples through an integrated unit that involved History and Drama. In particular, they explored the Victorian goldfields, the miner’s licence and the unrest that led to the Eureka …
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Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe - BELOW
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned …
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Production elements - BELOW
Students studied the elements of production in a 10-week unit based on the musical Blood Brothers (1983) by Willy Russell. They explored the script with group workshops, moved readings and short performances for the class. Assessment during the unit consisted …
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Video: Superheroes - BELOW
Students studied the 'action superhero' film genre as an extension to prior work in Drama based on superheroes as characters in short plays. The aim was to ensure that the students understood the key differences between artwork in drama and modern media. Through …
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Convict video - BELOW
Students studied convicts as a part of a History and Drama unit. They created a trailer for an imagined film about the key events in the life of a convict. The trailer was based on a case study of a real convict that was used for research in History and …
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Blueback trailer - BELOW
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English, Drama, Dance and the creation of a film trailer as a Media Arts summative task. They developed and planned their own sequences based on the novel's …
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