Dance and Curriculum

Dance greatly contribute to the curriculum by providing opportunities for:

- Personal expression
- Expression of feelings, moods and emotions
- Exploration of culture
- Expression of cultural identity
- Creative expression
- Exploration of physical capabilities

By learning and practicing dance students learn to perform, compose and appreciate. Furthermore, by performing, composing and appreciating, students learn about the elements of dance including:

- action
- dynamics
- time
- space
- relationships
- structure

Drama

In drama student learning about making, performing, analyzing and responding to drama, thus drama contribute widely to the curriculum.

In drama, students learn:

- being an audience
- interpersonal and intrapersonal skills
- knowledge and understandings
- how to act

Forms of drama:

- improvisation
- movement
- mime
- storytelling
- readers theatre
- puppetry
- mask
- video drama
- play-building

Elements of drama

- dramatic tension
- contrast
- symbol
- time
- space and place
- focus
- mood

Music

Students learn to perform, organised sound and listen to music. Their knowledge is expanding as students learn about musical concepts, including:

- duration
- pitch
- dynamic
- tone colour
- structure

Visual arts

In visual art student learn about:

- making
- appreciating
- art forms
- subject matter
- learning in and through the arts
- the language of art
- art activity

Art forms:

- drawing
- painting
- printing
- fibre
- sculpture/3D
- Photography
- Digital forms

Subject matter:

- People
- Living things
- Objects
- Places and spaces
- Events
- Abstract

The language of art:

- Line
- Shape
- Colour
- Tone
- Texture

Learning in and through the arts

Learning in the arts – the arts discreet forms

Learning through the arts – using arts pedagogies across the curriculum

CREATIVE ARTS K–6 SYLLABUS

K–6 Creative Arts Syllabus (2006)
Includes Stage Statements and time allocation

K–6 Creative Arts Principal's Package PDF – 18 pages – 3.9MB Published December 2000

K–6 Creative Arts Units of Work PDF – 186 pages – 13.1MB

§ Contents and Introduction PDF – 7 pages – 2.9MB

§ Visual Arts PDF - 50 pages – 3.1MB

§ Music PDF – 44 pages – 3.2MB

§ Drama PDF – 50 pages – 3.5MB

§ Dance PDF – 35 pages – 2.1MB

Creative Arts K–6 Resources links to websites, galleries, museums and resources. These will assist in the teaching of Visual Arts, Music, Drama and Dance.

K–6 Creative Arts Parents Guide introduces the Creative Arts Syllabus to parents and community members.

School Planning for the Creative Arts PDF – 13 pages – 272KB Published January 2001