The Arts
The Arts, Dance
The Dance curriculum aims to develop students’:
- body awareness and technical and expressive skills to communicate through movement confidently, creatively and intelligently
- choreographic and performance skills and appreciation of their own and others’ dances
- aesthetic, artistic and cultural understandings of dance in past and contemporary context sits relationship with other arts forms and contributions to cultures and societies
- respect for and knowledge of the diverse purposes, traditions, histories and cultures of dance by making and responding as active participants and informed audiences.
Ref: https://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/the-arts/dance/introduction/rationale-and-aims
The Arts, Dance Progression of Learning
The Arts, Drama
The Drama curriculum aims to develop students’:
- confidence and self-esteem to explore, depict and celebrate human experience, take risks and challenge their own creativity through drama
- knowledge and understanding in controlling, applying and analysing the elements, skills, processes, forms, styles and techniques of drama to engage audiences and create meaning
- sense of curiosity, aesthetic knowledge, enjoyment and achievement through exploring and playing roles, and imagining situations, actions and ideas as drama makers and audiences
- knowledge and understanding of traditional and contemporary drama as critical and active participants and audiences.
Ref: https://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/the-arts/drama/introduction/rationale-and-aims
The Arts, Drama Progression of Learning
The Arts, Music
The Music curriculum aims to develop students’:
- confidence to be creative, innovative, thoughtful, skilful and informed musicians
- skills to listen, improvise, compose, interpret, perform, and respond with intent and purpose
- aesthetic knowledge and respect for music and music practices across global communities, cultures and musical traditions
- understanding of music as an aural art form, its relationship with other arts forms and contributions to cultures and societies.
Ref: https://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/the-arts/music/introduction/rationale-and-aims
The Arts, Music Progression of Learning
The Arts, Visual Arts
The Visual Arts curriculum aims to develop students’:
- conceptual and perceptual ideas and expressions through design and inquiry processes
- visual arts techniques, materials, processes and technologies
- critical and creative thinking, using visual arts languages, theories and practices to apply aesthetic judgment
- respect for and acknowledgement of the diverse roles, innovations, traditions, histories and cultures of artists, craftspeople, designers, curators, critics and commentators
- respect for visual arts as social and cultural practices, including industry practices
- confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment and a personal aesthetic through engagement with visual arts making, viewing, discussing, analysing, interpreting and evaluating.
Ref: https://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/the-arts/visual-arts/introduction/rationale-and-aims