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 …
Introduction | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
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, …
Aims | 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
Aims Dance
In addition to the overarching aims of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, dance knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop: body awareness and technical and expressive skills to communicate through …
Aims | Dance | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Aims Media Arts
In addition to the overarching aims for the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, media arts knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop: enjoyment and confidence to participate in, experiment with and …
Aims | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Aims Music
In addition to the overarching aims of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, music knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop: the confidence to be creative, innovative, thoughtful, skilful and …
Aims | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 5 and 6 Music
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 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
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 …
Structure | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 5 and 6 Dance
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 | Dance | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 5 and 6 Media Arts
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 | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Music
In Music, students: continue to develop their aural skills as they build on their understanding and use of the elements of music extend their understanding and use of more complex rhythms and diversity of pitch and incorporate dynamics and expression …
Years 9 and 10 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Aims Visual Arts
In addition to the overarching aims of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, visual arts knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop: conceptual and perceptual ideas and representations through design …
Aims | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Key ideas
Strands Content descriptions in each arts subject reflect the interrelated strands of making and responding. making includes learning about and using knowledge, skills, techniques, processes, materials and technologies to explore arts practices and make …
Key ideas | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 5 and 6 Visual Arts
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 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Visual Arts
In Visual Arts, students: build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints extend their thinking, understanding and use of …
Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | 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
Years 7 and 8 Media Arts
In Media Arts, students: build on their understanding of structure, intent, character, settings, points of view and genre conventions and explore media conventions in their media artworks build on their understanding and use of time, space, sound, …
Years 7 and 8 | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Visual Arts
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Visual arts includes the fields of art, craft and design. Learning in and through these fields, students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express …
Rationale | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
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