KLA: The Arts

Year 7 & 8

In Year 7 and 8, Music, Art, and Drama are mandatory subjects, each running for one semester per year. The focus of these courses is to teach students basic skills in each subject, helping them develop concepts, create pieces, and present outcomes.

Throughout the year, student artworks are exhibited, music students have the opportunity to join the school band, and attend extracurricular lessons for their chosen instruments or vocal training, and drama students can participate in school productions, with options to dance, sing, or act. Additionally, music runs a two-day camp that combines band and vocal sessions, preparing students for school performances held throughout the year, including school assemblies, evening performances, and production orchestra events.

Year 9 & 10

Students can select Music, Art, Drama, Media and Visual Communication as an elective subject in Years 9 & 10.

Drama

In Levels 9 and 10, students develop more sophisticated approaches to making and responding to drama independently, in small groups. They continue to explore drama as an art form through improvisation, scripted drama, rehearsal and performance. Students are taught lead roles for the school production.

Media

In Levels 9 and 10, students refine and extend their understanding and use of structure, intent, character, settings, viewpoints and genre conventions in their compositions. As they use media technologies they extend the use of media elements such as time, space, sound, movement and lighting. They analyse the way in which audiences make meaning and how audiences interact with and share media artworks.

Music

In Levels 9 and 10, learning in Music involves students using their voices, instruments and technology as they make and respond to music independently and in small groups, They explore music as an art form through listening, composing and performing, developing a personal voice as composers, performers and audience.

Music students have the opportunity to join the school band, and attend extracurricular lessons for their chosen instruments or vocal training. Additionally, music runs a two-day camp that combines band and vocal sessions, preparing students for school performances held throughout the year, including school assemblies, evening performances, and production orchestra events.

Art

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 and explain how artists and audiences interpret artworks through explorations of different viewpoints.

Visual Communication

In levels 9 and 10, students build on their awareness of how designers communicate ideas with a specific purpose, to a targeted audience, using different visual communication design practices and viewpoints. They refine their personal aesthetic through their development of knowledge, understanding and skills in making and responding to visual communications.

VCE

Excursions-

Media attend Top Screen

Art Creative Practice attend Top Arts

Visual Communications attend Top Design

Art Creative Practice enables students to:

understand how the practices of artists and artworks reflect the values, beliefs and traditions of their own and other cultures
analyse, interpret and respond to artworks and ideas, both in their own work and in the work of others, using the support of the Interpretive Lenses
critically evaluate ideas and issues explored by historical and contemporary artists from different cultures and societies
develop personal ideas and expression through Making and Responding in art practice
employ practical skills in art making and develop conceptual understanding to inform aesthetic awareness and art practice
develop creative and critical thinking skills in individual responses to artworks and art practice.

Media enables students to:

investigate and analyse their and others’ experience of the media
understand the codes and conventions that are used to construct media narratives and products
develop an understanding of traditional and contemporary media forms, products, institutions and industries through theoretical study and practical application
develop an understanding of the structure, nature and roles of media forms, products and contexts in the creation, production, distribution, consumption and reading of media products.
analyse media stories and narratives to understand how meaning is constructed and how audiences are engaged
examine and develop an understanding of the relationship between the media and audiences that produce and engage with it
develop the capacity to investigate, examine and evaluate debates around the role of contemporary media and its implications for society
develop and refine skills in critically understanding and analysing the significance, aesthetics and production of media products in a range of contexts and forms for different audiences

Visual Communication enables students to:

work independently and in collaboration to find, reframe and address human-centred design problems and opportunities
apply a design process to discover, define, develop and deliver design solutions
develop divergent and convergent thinking strategies
understand conceptions of good design
develop and apply skills in drawing and making, using a range of media, materials, methods and techniques
manipulate the design elements and principles to communicate ideas and information
apply ethical, legal, sustainable and culturally appropriate design practices
understand design’s influence, and the influences of design in past, present and future contexts, including economic, technological, cultural, environmental and social factors
deliver and receive critical feedback using appropriate design terminology.