Years 3 and 4
In Years 3 and 4, learning in The Arts builds on the experience of the previous band. It involves students making and responding to artworks independently and collaboratively with their classmates and teachers.
As they experience The Arts, students draw on artworks from a range of cultures, times and locations. They explore the arts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of the Asia region and learn that they are used for different purposes. While the arts in the local community should be the initial focus for learning, students are also aware of and interested in the arts from more distant locations and the curriculum provides opportunities to build on this curiosity.
As they make and respond to artworks, students explore meaning and interpretation, elements and forms, and social and cultural contexts of the arts. They make personal evaluations of their own and others' artworks, making connections between their own artistic intentions and those of other artists.
Students continue to learn about safe practices in the arts and in their interactions with other artists. Their understanding of the role of the artist and the audience builds on their experience from the previous band. As an audience, students focus their attention on the artwork and respond to it. They consider why and how audiences respond to artworks.
In Years 3 and 4, students' awareness of themselves and others as audiences is extended beyond the classroom to the broader school context.
In Media Arts, students:
- extend their understanding of structure, intent, character and settings
- use composition, sound and technologies
- consider themselves as audiences and explore other audience groups
- explore institutions (individuals, communities and organisations) to understand purpose and process when producing media artworks
- explore meaning and interpretation, and forms and elements including structure, intent, character, settings, composition, time, space and sound as they make and respond to media artworks
- discuss the ethical behaviour of individuals when producing media artworks for a variety of audiences
- recognise appropriate and inappropriate use of other people's images and work in the making of media artworks.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks.
Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between media artworks they make and view. They discuss how and why they and others use images, sound and text to make and present media artworks.
Students collaborate to use story principles, time, space and technologies to make and share media artworks that communicate ideas to an audience.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)