Arts

The Arts

In the arts, students explore, refine, and communicate ideas as they connect thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings to create works and respond to the works of others

Students learn to work both independently and collaboratively to construct meanings, produce works, and respond to and value others’ contributions. They learn to use imagination to engage with unexpected outcomes and to explore multiple solutions. Through the use of creative and intuitive thought and action, learners in the arts are able to view their world from new perspectives.

Art History

In Art History, students investigate artworks from a broad range of genres, artists and time periods to interpret and question the circumstances in which they were created, how they were created and the meanings associated with these art works. This includes the study of the theories and values related particularly to painting, sculpture, architecture and design. As opportunities to explore and communicate in the visual arts continue to expand, visual literacy is a valuable skill.

Dance

In dance, students integrate thinking, moving, and feeling. They explore and use dance elements, vocabularies, processes, and technologies to express personal, group, and cultural identities, to convey and interpret artistic ideas, and to strengthen social interaction. Students develop skills in performing, choreographing, and responding to a variety of genres from a range of historical and contemporary contexts.

Drama

In drama, students learn to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds. As students work with drama techniques, they learn to use spoken and written language with increasing control and confidence and to communicate effectively using body language, movement, and space. As they perform and respond to different forms of drama and theatre, they gain a deeper appreciation of cultural heritages, behaviours, and values.

Music

In music, students work individually and collaboratively to explore ways of creating, interpreting and representing ideas within music. Students have opportunities to further their own creative potential as they sing, play instruments, read symbols and notations, record and analyse and appreciate music. As students learn to communicate musically with increasing sophistication, they lay a foundation for lifelong enjoyment of and participation in music.

Photography

In Photography you learn to understand the artistic and technical aspects involved, while embracing it as an expressive medium in which your aesthetic judgement is developed. Photography has become an important medium of communication in industry, sales and advertising, government, education, the media, and the arts.

Visual Art

In Visual Art, students develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness as they manipulate and transform visual, tactile, and spatial ideas to solve problems. They create and view art works, bringing their own experiences to generate multiple and varied solutions. Students participate in and celebrate a variety of visual worlds and cultural contexts.