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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The Elements of Drama - Theory Posters
A set of 16 posters providing information about the elements of drama.
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Organic Shape Search Worksheet
A fun art activity to explore organic shape.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Josephine
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
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Visual Arts Elements Line PowerPoint - Lower Years
A 22 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating line in Visual Art.
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Visual Arts Elements Shape and Form PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 25 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating shape and form in Visual Art.
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Readers' Theatre Script - 45th Annual Acting Awards
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Jesting Archaeologist
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Visual Arts Elements Texture PowerPoint - Middle Years
A 28 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating texture in Visual Art.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Rhyme Time
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 8 years and over.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Mighty Maree
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Science Experiment
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Visual Arts Elements Line PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 28 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating line in Visual Art.
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Patterning Guide Template - Year 3 and Year 4
A template to use when learning about line in visual art.
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Easy Origami Animals Worksheet and Step-By-Step Instructions for Kids
Make origami animals with your students with printable step-by-step instructions plus a 2D shapes worksheet for your maths lesson planning.
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Art Elements Poster Pack
A set of eight posters explaining the different visual art elements.
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Visual Arts Elements Shape and Form PowerPoint - Middle Years
A 27 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating shape and form in Visual Art.
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Readers' Theatre Script - Muddy Footprint Mystery
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Organically Abstract Mobile Activity
A fun art activity to explore organic shape.
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Colour Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'colour' as an art element.
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Moving Lines Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of line.
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Line and Feelings Sorting Activity - Year 3 to Year 6
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of line in visual art.
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My Garden Grows Activity
A fun art activity to explore organic shape.
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Make a Caterpillar – Dot Art Activity
An art activity procedure for how to make a caterpillar.
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Cylinder Sculpture Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of warm or cool colours.
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Character - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of 'character'.
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Visual Arts Elements Colour PowerPoint – Lower Years
An 18-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating colour in Visual Art.
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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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Readers' Theatre Script - My Dad, the Superhero
A script which can be used during readers' theatre or Drama sessions, aimed at students 10 years and over.
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Time - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of 'time'.
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Movement - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of movement.
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Musical ZAP Game - Notes with Rhythm Syllables
A fun group game to play when learning notes and rhythms.
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Musical ZAP Game
A fun group game to play when learning notes and rhythms.