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School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff Leadership and Management

56S Creative Arts Program Term 1, 2013


Aim of the program: To enable students to gain increasing understanding and accomplishment in the visual arts, music, drama and dance and for students to appreciate the meanings and values that each of the art forms offer personally, culturally and as forms of communication. Outcomes: Quality Teaching Focus: VAS3.1 Investigates subject matter in an attempt to Quality Learning Environment Engagement represent likenesses of things in the world Students will show enthusiasm for their work and sustain VAS3.2 Makes artworks for different audiences, interest, attentiveness and individual focus on work. assembling materials in a variety of ways VAS3.3 Acknowledges that audiences respond in different ways to artworks and that there are different opinions about the value of artworks VAS3.4 Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks. Indicators VAS3.4 VAS3.3 VAS3.1 VAS3.2 identifies and identifies some of the closely observes discusses the describes the reasons why artworks details of things in conditions and properties of are made (e.g. the the world and seeks requirements of different forms, artists personal interest to make artworks artworks that are materials and and experience, a work about these using made for techniques in commissioned for a site, various techniques particular artworks and a work made to such as proportion, purposes, sites or comments on how commemorate an event perspective, events and how these are employed in a community) composition, those conditions in the representation talks about and writes foreshortening and requirements of subject matter about the meaning of uses different can affect how discusses the artworks recognising artistic concepts (eg they might go artists intention how artworks, can be colour, tone, light, about their own and/or the use of valued in different ways scale, abstract), and artmaking. styles and techniques by themselves as explores how in selected works audience members, and symbols may be and considers the by others used in their possible meanings of interpretation of these works selected subject suggests how matter subject matter can mean different things in artworks and seeks to explain meanings by developing reasoned accounts that take into account such things as the artist, work, world and audience Learning Intentions: Refer to each lesson Meredith Stanger 2013

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff Leadership and Management Success Criteria: Developed in collaboration with students Organisation of the program: Creative Arts will be taught on Mondays from 2.00 3.00pm. Assessment: Observation of students participation in practical activities and during discussions about how artworks are created Completion of set tasks showing attention to the techniques taught and appreciation for the efforts of others

Meredith Stanger 2013

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