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.
- Visual Arts: Students are exposed to the Elements of Art (line, shape, colour, form, texture, value and space) and develop their understanding of this through various creative tasks. Paper Collage, colour theory, arts analysis and a focus on an artist/art movement allows students to develop basic art skills. Self-analysis and reflection are embedded throughout the course.
- 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.
