Year 10
| Drama | 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. | - Pitch It
- Australian Gothic Theatre
- Monologue Madness
- Realism
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| Media Studies | In Media Studies 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. | |
| Music | 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
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| Visual Art | 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. | - Surrealism
- Expressionism
- Graphic Novel
- Social Commentary
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Year 11 & 12
Visual Art provides students with opportunities to understand and appreciate the role of visual art in past and present traditions and cultures, as well as the contributions of contemporary visual artists and their aesthetic, historical and cultural influences. Students interact with artists, artworks, institutions and communities to enrich their experiences and understandings of their own and others' art practices.
Students have opportunities to construct knowledge and communicate personal interpretations by working as both artist and audience. They use their imagination and creativity to innovatively solve problems and experiment with visual language and expression.
Through an inquiry learning model, students develop critical and creative thinking skills. They create individualised responses and meaning by applying diverse materials, techniques, technologies and art processes.
In responding to artworks, students employ essential literacy skills to investigate artistic expression and critically analyse artworks in diverse contexts. They consider meaning, purposes and theoretical approaches when ascribing aesthetic value and challenging ideas.
Drama in Practice gives students opportunities to plan, create, adapt, produce, perform, appreciate and evaluate a range of dramatic works or events in a variety of settings. A key focus of this syllabus is engaging with school and/or local community contexts and, where possible, interacting with practising artists.
As students gain practical experience in a number of onstage and offstage roles, including actor/performer, designer, scriptwriter, director, stage technician, publicity manager and stage manager, they recognise the role drama plays and value the contribution it makes to the social and cultural lives of local, national and international communities.
In Drama in Practice, students explore and engage with two core topics of study — 'Dramatic principles' and 'Dramatic practices' — as they participate in learning activities that apply knowledge and develop creative and technical skills in communicating meaning to an audience. Individually and in groups, they shape and express dramatic ideas of personal and social significance that serve particular purposes. They identify and follow creative and technical processes from conception to realisation, which fosters cooperation and creativity, and helps students develop problem-solving skills and gain confidence and self-esteem.
Through the core of dramatic practices students also learn essential workplace health and safety procedures relevant to the drama and theatre industry, as well as effective work practices and industry skills needed by a drama practitioner
Visual Arts in Practice focuses on students engaging in art-making processes and making virtual or physical visual artworks. Visual artworks are created for a purpose and in response to individual, group or community needs.
Students explore and apply the materials, technologies and techniques used in art- making. They use information about design elements and principles to influence their own aesthetic and guide how they view others' works. They also investigate information about artists, art movements and theories, and use the lens of a context to examine influences on art-making.
Students reflect on both their own and others' art-making processes. They integrate skills to create artworks and evaluate aesthetic choices. Students decide on the best way to convey meaning through communications and artworks. They learn and apply safe visual art practices.