The Arts
The arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. The five arts subjects in the Australian Curriculum provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences.
Rich in tradition, the arts play a major role in the development and expression of cultures and communities, locally, nationally and globally. Students communicate ideas in current, traditional and emerging forms and use arts knowledge and understanding to make sense of their world. The Australian Curriculum: The Arts values, respects and explores the significant contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Australia’s arts heritage and contemporary arts practices through their distinctive ways of representing and communicating knowledge, traditions and experience. In The Arts, students learn as artists and audience through the intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences of the arts. They acquire knowledge, skills and understanding specific to The Arts subjects and develop critical understanding that informs decision-making and aesthetic choices. Through The Arts, students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions as they discover and interpret the world. They learn that designing, producing and resolving their work is as essential to learning in the arts as is creating a finished artwork. Students develop their arts knowledge and aesthetic understanding through a growing comprehension of the distinct and related languages, symbols, techniques, processes and skills of the arts subjects. Arts learning provides students with opportunities to engage with creative industries and arts professionals.
The arts entertain, challenge, provoke responses and enrich our knowledge of self, communities, world cultures and histories. The Arts contribute to the development of confident and creative individuals, nurturing and challenging active and informed citizens. Learning in The Arts is based on cognitive, affective and sensory/kinaesthetic response to arts practices as students revisit increasingly complex content, skills and processes with developing confidence and sophistication across their years of learning.
This rationale is extended and complemented by the specific rationale for each arts subject.
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Mix It Up Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of specific colour schemes.
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What's in a Colour? Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of colour in visual art.
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Learning Primary and Secondary Colours – Craft Activity
A painting craft activity to help students learn about primary and secondary colours.
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Artistic Movements PowerPoint – The Renaissance
A 48-slide editable PowerPoint template exploring the famous artists and signature artistic techniques of the Renaissance.
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Masked in Mystery Activity
A fun art activity to explore shape through the creation of a mask.
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Chicken Evolution Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages cognitive processing skills, physical activity and social skills.
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Art Elements Poster
A poster that visually explains the different art elements.
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Texture Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'texture' as an art element.
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Value Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'value' as an art element.
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Dramatic Meaning - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the term 'dramatic meaning'.
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Language - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of language.
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Situation - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of 'situation'.
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Role - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of role.
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Musical ZAP Game
A fun group game to play when learning notes and rhythms.
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Christmas Tree Ornament - Turtle
A template for creating First Nations-themed Christmas tree ornaments featuring authentic Aboriginal designs.
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Christmas Tree Ornament - Wombat
A template for creating First Nations‐themed Christmas tree ornaments featuring authentic Aboriginal designs.
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Musical Instrument Bingo Game
Thirty different bingo cards using musical instruments.
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Patterning Guide Template - Lower
A template to use when learning about line in visual art.
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Oblivious Orchestra – Rhythm Challenge
A fun and challenging game where students try to keep a steady beat.
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Art Elements PowerPoint Presentation
A PowerPoint including eight slides explaining the different visual art elements.
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Cubism Guitar – Template
A paper craft template of a Cubism style guitar.
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Zany Hairstyle Template
A fun art activity where a drawing needs to be completed.
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Art Attack! Line – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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Colossal Cinemas: Movie Merch Mayhem – Project
A project in which students can design a merchandise line and create a movie trailer for a chosen movie to screen at Colossal Cinemas.
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Yes Let's! Active Game
A whole class active game encourages the development of listening skills, confidence and leadership.
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Detailed Stage Directions Poster
A poster explaining detailed stage direction terminology.
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Basic Stage Directions Poster
A poster explaining basic stage direction terminology.
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Non-Realism Performance Style Poster
A poster explaining the dramatic performance style of Non-Realism.
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Realism Performance Style Poster
A poster explaining the dramatic performance style of Realism.
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Realism and Non-Realism Performance Styles Posters
A set of 2 posters explaining the theatrical styles of Realism and Non-Realism.
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Atmosphere - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of 'atmosphere'.
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Storm's a Comin' - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when exploring sound in science or music.