Drama is an art form which challenges students to make meaning of their world. It provides students with opportunities to ask questions, challenge perspectives and explore different experiences in real and imagined contexts. Through Drama students develop personal and social verbal and non-verbal skills, individual and group communication and self-management skills.

• Calling all Performers
  

In Music, students:

- build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening, composing and performing 

- aurally identify layers within a texture

- sing and play independent parts against contrasting parts

- recognise rhythmic, melodic and harmonic patterns and beat groupings

- perform with expression and technical control

- identify a variety of audiences for which music is made

-draw on music from a range of cultures, times and locations as they experience music

- learn that over time there has been further development of techniques used in traditional and contemporary styles of music as they explore form in music

• Magical Mozart
  

In Visual Arts, students:

- build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints

- consider the qualities and sustainable properties of materials, techniques, technologies and processes and combine these to create and produce solutions to their artworks

- consider society and ethics, and economic, environmental and social factors

- exhibit their artworks individually or collaboratively, basing the selection on a concept or theme

- learn that over time there has been further development of techniques used in traditional and contemporary styles as they explore different forms in visual arts

- design, create and evaluate visual solutions to selected themes and/or concepts through a variety of visual arts forms, styles, techniques and/or processes as they make and respond to visual artworks

- develop an informed opinion about artworks based on their research of current and past artists 

- examine their own culture and develop a deeper understanding of their practices as an artist who holds

- individual views about the world and global issues

Media Arts are concerned with representing the world and telling stories with the help of technology, such as film, radio, television, newspapers and the internet. In this subject, students will explore the key concepts and elements of Media Arts, aspiring to make and respond to media arts in a variety of ways.

​Combining theoretical and practical knowledge and understanding, students will manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs, whilst learning media production skills to plan, design and produce media artworks for a range of purposes.

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Year 8:

• On Set and in the Studio​

Drama is an art form which challenges students to make meaning of their world. It provides students with opportunities to ask questions, challenge perspectives and explore different experiences in real and imagined contexts.

Through Drama students develop personal and social skills including non-verbal and verbal, individual and group communication and self-management skills.

• Improvisation
• Monologue
• Working with Script
• Australian Theatre
  

Media Arts are concerned with representing the world and telling stories with the help of technology, such as film, radio, television, newspapers and the internet. In this subject, students will explore the key concepts and elements of Media Arts, aspiring to make and respond to media arts in a variety of ways.

​Combining theoretical and practical knowledge and understanding, students will manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs, whilst learning media production skills to plan, design and produce media artworks for a range of purposes.

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Music will challenge students as they perform, analyse and conduct aural listening. They will learn about the elements of music along with music notation theory. They will explore Australian music – traditional Aboriginal music to modern Australian music – and they will explore rock music around the globe.

Performance in music will provide students with the knowledge and resources to learn and play an instrument of their choosing. As a class, students will learn and perform two compositions.

• Elements of music
• Write me a song
  

Visual Art is a powerful and pervasive means which students use to make images and objects, communicating aesthetic meaning and understanding from informed perspectives.

Visual Communication is the most dominant mode in a mediatised world, and young people need to be able to make sense of it and be discriminating.

• Still Life on Pause
• Paint it Like Picasso
• Prop Art
• Ceramics – Sculpt it!​