Structure
The Australian Curriculum: The Arts covers each of the five arts subjects – Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts – across bands of year levels: Foundation to Year 2 Years 3 and 4 Years 5 and 6 Years 7 and 8 Years 9 and 10. The curriculum …
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Introduction
In the Australian Curriculum, The Arts is a learning area that draws together related but distinct art forms. While these art forms have close relationships and are often used in interrelated ways, each involves different approaches to arts practices …
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Foundation to Year 2 Drama
In Foundation to Year 2, learning in The Arts builds on the Early Years Learning Framework. Students are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with …
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Years 3 and 4 Drama
In Years 3 and 4, learning in The Arts builds on the experience of the previous band. It involves students making and responding to artworks independently and collaboratively with their classmates and teachers. As they experience The Arts, students draw …
Years 3 and 4 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 5 and 6 Drama
In Years 5 and 6, students draw on artworks from a range of cultures, times and locations. They explore the arts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of the Asia region and learn that they are used for different purposes. While the arts …
Years 5 and 6 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Drama
In Drama, students: build on their understanding of role, character and relationships use voice and movement to sustain character and situation use focus, tension, space and time to enhance drama incorporate language and ideas and use devices such …
Years 7 and 8 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Drama
In Drama, students: refine and extend their understanding and use of role, character, relationships and situation extend the use of voice and movement to sustain belief in character maintain focus and manipulate space and time, language, ideas and …
Years 9 and 10 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Drama
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Drama is the expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning …
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Aims Drama
In addition to the overarching aims of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, drama knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop: confidence and self-esteem to explore, depict and celebrate human experience, …
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Structure Drama
Learning in Drama Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of drama, develop skills, techniques and processes, and use …
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Example of knowledge and skills Drama
In this band students are introduced to the ways that ideas and intentions are communicated in and through drama. They develop knowledge, understanding and skills through drama practices focusing on: Elements of drama Role, character and relationships Role …
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Achievement Standard Drama Foundation to Year 2
By the end of Year 2, students describe what happens in drama they make, perform and view. They identify some elements in drama and describe where and why there is drama. Students make and present drama using the elements of role, situation and focus …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Foundation to Year 2 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Drama Years 3 and 4
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between drama they make, perform and view. They discuss how they and others organise the elements of drama in their drama. Students use relationships, tension, time and …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 3 and 4 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Drama Years 5 and 6
By the end of Year 6, students explain how dramatic action and meaning is communicated in drama they make, perform and view. They explain how drama from different cultures, times and places influences their own drama making. Students work collaboratively …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 5 and 6 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Drama Years 7 and 8
By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how the elements of drama are used, combined and manipulated in different styles. They apply this knowledge in drama they make and perform. They evaluate how they and others from different cultures, …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Drama Years 9 and 10
By the end of Year 10, students analyse the elements of drama, forms and performance styles and evaluate meaning and aesthetic effect in drama they devise, interpret, perform and view. They use their experiences of drama practices from different cultures, …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 9 and 10 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
ACADRM027
Explore role and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACADRM027 | Content Descriptions | Foundation to Year 2 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
ACADRM029
Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACADRM029 | Content Descriptions | Foundation to Year 2 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
ACADRR030
Respond to drama and consider where and why people make drama, starting with Australian drama including drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACADRR030 | Content Descriptions | Foundation to Year 2 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
ACADRM031
Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACADRM031 | Content Descriptions | Years 3 and 4 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum