The Arts comprises five subjects:
• In Dance, students use the body to communicate and express meaning through purposeful movement. Dance practice integrates choreography, performance, and appreciation of and responses to dance and dance making.
• In Drama, students explore and depict real and fictional worlds through use of body language, gesture and space to make meaning as performers and audience. They create, rehearse, perform and respond to drama.
• In Media Arts, students use communications technologies to creatively explore, make and interpret stories about people, ideas and the world around them. They explore the diverse cultural, social and organisational influences on communications practices, and draw on this understanding when making and responding to media arts works.
• In Music, students listen to, compose and perform music from a diverse range of styles, traditions and contexts. They create, shape and share sounds in time and space and critically analyse music. Music practices are aurally based and focus on developing and applying knowledge and skills through sustained musical engagement.
• In Visual Arts, students experience and explore the concepts of artists, visual arts works, world and audience. Students learn in, through and about visual arts practices, including the fields of art, craft and design
Aims
The Arts aims to develop students':
• creativity, critical thinking, aesthetic knowledge and understanding about arts practices, through making and responding to arts works with increasing self-confidence
• arts knowledge and skills to communicate ideas; they value and share their arts and life experiences by representing expressing and communicating ideas, imagination and observations about their individual and collective worlds to others in meaningful ways
• use of innovative arts practices with available and emerging technologies, to express and represent ideas, while displaying empathy for multiple viewpoints Australian Curriculum: The Arts – All elements F–10.
• understanding of Australia's histories and traditions through the arts, engaging with the arts works and practices, both traditional and contemporary, of First Nations Australians
• understanding of local, regional and global cultures, and their arts histories and traditions, through engaging with the worlds of artists, arts works, audiences and arts professions.
Content in the Australian Curriculum: The Arts is organised under four strands:
• Exploring and connecting
• Developing skills, practice and ideas
• Creating
• Sharing and communicating
The core concepts that form the essence of learning in The Arts and underpin the content in the four strands are:
• learning by making and responding
• learning as artist and as audience.