9 Arts

Year 9 Arts Overview

Students may select 1 or more of the following Arts courses for their choice subjects. All students can choose up to 3 semesters of Arts subjects (4 semesters for Arts Academy students). All courses are for 1 semester only.

Dance / Length: 1 Semester

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.
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

Course Content

Students extend their knowledge and understanding of the dramatic arts, including on and off-stage roles. Students develop vital life and employable skills such as teamwork, confidence and communication through drama games and practical exercises. Students will collaborate in small groups and/or larger ensembles to devise and present short, entertaining performances. Students can also explore the technical side of Drama in lighting, sound or costume design. Drama continues up to Year 12 and offers skills to last a lifetime.

Assessment

Participation in classroom games, theory tasks, practical exercises and reflection.

Additional Details

Students must have a positive mindset and a willingness to participate.
This program can continue up to Year 12 and has industry pathways.

Filmmaking / Length: 1 Semester

Course Content

Students extend their filmmaking knowledge and skills and learn how to create short films and animations in various genres through collaborative script writing, camera operation, lighting, sound, costumes and props design. Students explore and critique a range of film genres and take on specific filmmaking roles such as camera operation, sound, acting and editing. Student filmmakers can be nominated for awards and prizes at our 'Red Carpet Film Night' and create content suitable for film festivals and social media.

Assessment

Short film products, practical skills with inquiry research is assessed using the Media Arts achievement standard.

Additional Details

Students must have a positive mindset and a willingness to participate.
This program can continue up to Year 12 and has industry pathways.

Music Advanced / Length: Full Year

Course Content

Students will extend on the basics of contemporary music sound and notation learnt in Year 8 as well as playing various songs in small or class ensembles. Composing and arranging in various styles will be studied using music technology. Solo and ensemble performances will be given on the students’ chosen instruments.

Assessment

Practical participation and performance skills, theory exercises, composition and written tasks:

creativity: solo and ensemble rehearsal and performance skills, arranging (70%)
literacy: musical theory and notation, ATSI and Australian contemporary music studies, 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.

Music Experience / Length: 1 Semester

Course Content

Students will study the basics of contemporary music sound and notation as well as playing different instruments. Composition will also be studied using music technology and the elements of music will discussed in various musical genres.

Assessment

Practical participation, composition, theory and written tasks:

creativity: percussion, keyboard, guitar, composition and arranging (70%)
literacy: musical theory and notation, ATSI and Australian contemporary music studies, review writing, reflection and analysis on creative works (30%).

Additional Details

Students must have a positive mindset and a willingness to participate.
No musical background is required but students are encouraged to learn an instrument within the school’s instrumental music program.
For students learning an instrument within the instrumental music program (not compulsory), costs may include an instrument hire fee of up to $150 per year, depending on their instrument of choice.

Visual Art / Length: 1 Semester

Course Content

Students express their creative ideas through drawing, painting, printmaking and/or sculpture. Students extend existing knowledge and skills to identify and develop 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

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

Visual Design / Length: 1 Semester

Course Content

Through the use of computer software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and SketchUp, students will study and develop key skills in this visual arts subject by exploring graphic, animation, product and built environment areas of design and the part they play in daily life. Work required will involve research, analysis and practical application of skills in the development and presentation of solutions to a range of graphic, animation, product and environmental design problems.

Assessment

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

Additional Details

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

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