Performing Arts & Art Term Overview
Performing Arts
Year 1 – Dance (Performing Arts)
Your student’s teacher is Robert.
During term one, Year 1 students will be learning about safe dance practices and increasing their awareness of the movements of their body. By the end of term 1, students will be successful if they can explain and discuss the questions - “What is dance?" and "What is an element of dance?" Students will also be successful if they are able to demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
Year 3 and Year 4 – Music (Performing Arts)
Your student’s teacher is Alison.
During term one, year 3 and 4 students will be exploring the question “When is a creative piece ready for performance?” Working through a graded recorder program, students will learn skills, techniques, and processes in order to perform the pieces successfully. Students will also reflect upon the quality of their music beyond the learning of the notes. They will ask themselves, “Is this piece ready for performance?” as they also explore the expressive musical elements of tempo, timbre, and dynamics.
Year 5 – Music (Performing Arts)
Your student’s teacher is Alison.
During term one, year 5 students will be exploring the question “How can we connect as a community through learning the ukulele?” Practising skills, techniques and processes, students will learn - how to hold the ukulele, name the strings and the parts of the instrument, how to read a chord chart and how to use various strumming techniques. Students will also discuss and reflect upon various community connections such as smaller classroom learning communities, playing together as an ensemble, performing for others, and making connections with other musicians such as outside community groups, or friends and family.
Year 7 – Music (Performing Arts)
Your student’s teacher is Alison.
During term one, year 7 students will be exploring the question “How can we connect our class, school, and the wider community through music?” As they begin the unit, students will focus on a self-directed learning cycle, which sees them set individual goals, take-action, reflect upon their learning and continuously reset goals towards learning a musical instrument of choice. Students will then come together to play as an ensemble and develop skills beyond the individual musician. In the last part of the unit, students will focus on performance, and explore how they can connect with their audience members beyond the learning of the notes, through the use of expressive musical elements such as tempo, timbre, dynamics, articulation, and musical arrangement.
ART
During Term 1, Year 6 students will be learning how artists make creative choices through printmaking techniques. Students will select and apply visual conventions, materials, and techniques specific to print making processes to express their ideas. Students will display and present their print making artworks to an audience.
During Term 1, Year 2 students will be learning how to express their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination through sculpture and 3D art making techniques. They will experiment with mixed media materials, techniques and processes to make sculptural forms. Students will learn about collaboration and how to display artworks to express ideas to an audience.
During Term 1, Foundation students will be developing their fine motor skills through cutting, pasting and drawing techniques. Students will develop their observation and imagination drawing skill in response to artists through history. Students will experiment with different materials and techniques with an emphasis on warm and cool colours, shape and line.