Arts

The Arts

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

Learners 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.

Dance

In Dance, learners 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. Learners develop skills in performing, choreographing, and responding to a variety of genres from a range of historical and contemporary contexts.

Drama

In Drama, learners develop their skills to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds. As ākonga 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, learners work individually and collaboratively to explore ways of creating, interpreting and representing ideas within music. Learners have opportunities to further their own creative potential as they sing, play instruments, read symbols and notations, record and analyse and appreciate music. As learners learn to communicate musically with increasing sophistication, they lay a foundation for lifelong enjoyment of and participation in music.

Photography 

In Photography learners develop an understanding of artistic and technical aspects of photographic techniques while embracing it as an expressive medium in which their aesthetic judgement is developed. Photography is a key medium of communication in industry, sales and advertising, government, education, the media, and the arts.

Visual Art

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