The Arts - Year 7
Mandatory: Yes
Duration: Full year
Description
The Arts course in Year 7 fosters creativity, self-expression, and collaboration. Creative Arts, Drama and Music provide students with fundamental strategies in the experimentation, development and resolution of a creative work using logical, critical and aesthetic thinking.
- Media Arts: Students will develop skills in the Elements of Art ( line, shape, value, form, colour, texture & space) using a creative process as well as an artist study and self analysis encouraging reflective skills. Folio development is introduced as an important process for artistic expression and recording of skills. Combining creative/ arts elements and dramatic interpretations, with the making of puppets as an example, allows students to use design, creativity and construction.
- Music: Students are provided with an introduction to the music space and given opportunities to explore music theory, a range of different instruments, and electronic music composition. This course is designed to foster creativity and develop fundamental instrumental and electronic music skills through a number of engaging experiences and learning activities.
- Drama: The Drama space provides basic dramatic skills through the use of drama games that build understanding of expectations in this area of the arts. Students explore and depict real and fictional worlds through use of body language, gesture and space to make meaning as performers and audience. They then devise and plan a performance displaying their creative art skills.
