The Arts

Subject Selection and The Arts

Our fantastic Arts teaching team have been busy refining their curriculum for the 2026 timetable and we want to assure you that we are ready and raring to go!

Drama, Music, Media Arts as well as Visual Art and Visual Design are included in the subject selections for Year 8 into 9 and Year 9 into 10. We are just waiting for enthusiastic young artists ready to flex their creativity and develop their 20th Century skills!

Similarly, in Year 11 next year, we are offering Drama; Drama in Practice; Music; Film, Television and New Media as well as Visual Art and Visual Arts in Practice. If you are interested in pursuing study in one or more of these subjects, we encourage you to preference them on your subject selection form.

Arts education is not just for the soul, it is an important for developing creativity and collaboration, for thinking critically and communicating effectively. Our courses teach students to bring a project to fruition, to network with a range of stakeholders, to observe how the world works, to explore values and understand cultural changes and differences, to innovate and bring joy to themselves and others. In a world where AI is increasingly engaged in the workplace, the Arts offer an opportunity to extend on the qualities that are inherently human. Please see the 21st Century skills developed in Arts learning in the graphic below.

Post-school pathways in The Arts are bountiful, (consider the booming screen industry in SE QLD right now), but most tertiary courses require portfolio or audition entry, making them quite competitive. Our courses are proven to support students moving into tertiary studies and preparing them for the type of creative work they will do – we currently have 6 FTNM graduates in their final year at Griffith Film School (who only take 40 students each year) and have a number of students use the skills they have developed in Music and Visual Art move into courses at the Conservatorium or in Fine Arts every year. We have 5 past Music students attending UQ for tertiary Music and another 6 at the Conservatorium.

Will you be our next Arts Superstar?

A huge shout out to Jeff Jarrott, our incredible Percussion teacher, and his students this morning on their successful performance with Asymmetry at the Australian Percussion Eisteddfod on Saturday. Held in Queensland for the first time in about 10 Years, our students held their own against and incredibly competitive and talented field of 7 A Grade ensembles. They played their program with precision and innate musicianship and were awarded a platinum level and placed 2nd!

If you see any of this crew today, please congratulate them on their remarkable achievement:

Stephen Jarrott

Jayden Fulwood

Amelia Lynch

Catriona Williams

Reuben Spiker-Folland

Michael Khoo

Lauren Aisthorpe

Rosie Blake

Reka Radnoti

Clara Palpant

Thomas Gjerek

Luke Spiker-Folland

We are incredible proud of them!