Dance / Length: 1 Semester or Full Year

Course Content

Students will develop an understanding of a range of dance genres for performance. Dance choreography is explored for a live audience and technical tasks are completed in jazz and contemporary genres. Students can also gain skills in off-stage roles such as lighting and sound design and they have the opportunity to perform on stage for the Fringe@REC, choreographic competition, Arts showcase and/or whole school production. 

Assessment

Assessment includes the completion of technical tasks and dance products.

Additional Details

• Students must have a positive mindset and a willingness to participate. 

• Arts Academy students can study an additional semester of this course to create a full year program with variation of content offered for extended learning. 

• Students in this program are expected to perform at REC Arts events as part of their assessment.

• This program can continue up to Year 12 and has industry pathways.

Drama / Length: 1 Semester or Full Year

Course Content

This program teaches the vital skills and in-depth exploration of acting and stagecraft. Students will train and develop their skills through practical exercises, study and perform classical and contemporary plays from a range of playwrights. They will present their work to an audience. Students will participate in fun, theatre-based exercises, devise short performances to present to the class, respond to and reflect upon those performances and will perform in a larger class performance.

Assessment

Classroom exercises, short presentations and a class performance.

Additional Details

• Students must have a positive mindset and a willingness to participate. 

• An additional semester of this course can be taken to create a full year program with variation of content offered for extended learning.

• There may be a cost throughout the year (up to $50) for optional activities and opportunities (theatre or film excursion) that align with the Learning and Assessment Plan. 

Music Advanced / Length: Full Year

Course Content

Students will extend their knowledge of contemporary music, sound and notation learnt in Year 9 as well as playing various songs in small or class ensembles. Composing and arranging in the various styles will be studied using music technology. Solo and ensemble performances will be given on the students’ chosen instrument.

Assessment

Practical participation, composition, theory and written tasks:

• creativity: solo and ensemble rehearsal and performance skills, arranging (70%)

• literacy: musical theory and notation, ATSI and Australian musicians and careers, review writing, reflection and analysis on creative works (30%).

Additional Details

• Students are required to have successfully applied to the Arts Academy program. 

• Students must actively learn an instrument within the school’s instrumental music program or private tuition and participate in an ensemble (choir, percussion ensemble or concert band, depending on their instrument of choice).

• For students learning an instrument, costs may include an instrument hire fee of up to $150 per year, depending on their instrument of choice.

• Students in this program are expected to perform at REC Arts events as part of their assessment.

Visual Art / Length: 1 Semester or Full Year

Course Content

Students express their creative ideas through drawing, painting, printmaking and/or sculpture. Students further extend existing knowledge and skills to develop and refine their own artistic style and conceptual intentions using a variety of media and materials. By engaging in the analysis, planning, production, presentation and evaluation of visual art projects, students respond to influences that may include past and contemporary Australian and/or international artists and artworks. 

Assessment

Students will be assessed through a variety of making (practical) and responding (written and/or oral) tasks.

Additional Details

• An additional semester of this course can be taken to create a full year program with variation of content offered for extended learning. 

• Visual Art can continue up to Year 12 and has industry pathways.

Visual Design / Length: 1 Semester or Full Year

Course Content

This course aims to build on the 2D and 3D and animation, computer-based skills and knowledge that are introduced in Year 9 Visual Design. Students will develop and apply skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and SketchUp to a range of graphic, animation, product and built environment design projects. Students will explore the techniques for making and presenting both 2D and 3D and animated designs using a range of software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and SketchUp. Emphasis will be placed on the design process in researching, analysing and generating creative solutions to a range of practical design problems.

Assessment

Students will be assessed though a variety of making (practical) and responding (theory tasks) through the semester.

Additional Details

• An additional semester of this course can be taken to create a full year program with variation of content offered for extended learning. 

• This program can continue up to Year 12 and has industry pathways.