The Arts 

Media Arts

Learning in Media Arts involves students engaging with communications technologies, incorporating their Dance, Drama, Visual Arts and Music knowledge to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio, screen-based or hybrid artworks. Students acquire skills and processes to work in a range of forms and styles of media and express, conceptualise and communicate in different forms such as songs, movies, etc.

Students learn to reflect critically on their own and others’ Media Arts experiences and evaluate media artworks from different sources.

Drama

Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students  develop skills, techniques and processes, and use materials as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts. Students explore roles and dramatic action in dramatic plays, improvisation and then produce short drama plays.

Students explore and experiment with 4 elements of voice, movement, role plays by being a character and establish fictional settings when improvising. The focus is on making connections with Aboriginal Dreaming Stories and Australian animals to form the basis of drama productions. 

Dance

This year, students have described Dance as moving to music, being active, flexible and getting fit, developing muscle and body control,  being expressive, having fun and being happy.  Dance is all of these things and more because it is an integral part of every culture, reflecting life situations, feelings and story telling.  

Students have been eager to share their sequence of dance moves they have created, to music they have chosen.  They have developed crucial communication and relationship skills as they have worked together with a partner, or in a small group, to improvise movements to make them flow and express their feelings.

Below is a video of M1 with the dance improvisations of modern dance moves.

Above is a video of M2 students doing their dances of Australian animals.  Each pair is mirroring the moves of their partner.                                                         

Visual Arts

In Visual Arts our focus has been creating a variety of artworks using different mediums. We have focussed on drawing and painting-using paint wash. Exploring different techniques for example instead of colouring using lines to fill the space.

We have focussed on an artist and looked at the artists work and made our own art  using his art work as a basis. We have explored indigenous art and made our own art using indigenous symbols.

In Visual Arts, students:

become aware of visual conventions and learn to notice visual detail

explore how and why artworks are created and ways to use and apply visual conventions, such as line, shape, colour and texture

learn how their ideas or subject matter can be developed through different forms, styles, techniques, materials and technologies

learn about how and why artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints.

Music

In Music, students communicate about music they listen to, make and perform. They learn to improvise, compose, arrange and perform music and to keep in time when they sing and play. 

Our focus has been on listening to Aboriginal and classical music representing animals and creating our own music to sound like animals. Students describe the pitch, volume, speed, mood and instruments used in music they hear. They use notation to represent the music they have created so that they can play the music at a later date.