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Music

This strand focuses on students making music and developing the ability to think and express themselves in sound. Through immersion in repertoire from various cultural and historical contexts, students learn to aurally and visually identify, respond to and use the elements and patterns of music. This develops the ability to hear what is seen and see what is heard.  

Students learn to recognise and interpret emotional, spiritual and expressive content in the music they hear and perform. Meaning is constructed through engagement with music that is carefully chosen for its content, with the abilities, experience, needs and prior knowledge of students in mind. By singing, playing instruments, listening, moving, improvising and composing, students experience satisfaction and enjoyment as they learn.

 The organisers of the Music outcomes are aurally and visually identifying and responding to, singing and playing, and reading and writing music.

 Aurally and visually identifying and responding to music

Students identify, analyse and respond to musical patterns, tone colours, structures and expressive elements in music from various cultural and historical contexts. They use their acquired skills and understandings to express and communicate ideas and feelings through inventing and improvising music.

 Singing and playing music

Students sing and play in tune and in appropriate style, individually and with others. They perform music that is developmentally appropriate in terms of vocal range, physical development, musical concepts and style. Students learn to recognise and interpret emotional and expressive content in the music they perform and hear.

 Reading and writing music

Students apply their skills and knowledge of musical patterns, structures and elements to read and write music and to express themselves through composing and arranging.

Drama

This strand focuses on students expressing and communicating understandings about human issues and experience through the enactment of real and imagined events. While interacting in a range of roles, relationships, situations and contexts, students investigate feelings, actions and consequences. They develop confidence and self-awareness as they collaborate to prepare and present drama. They develop understanding of the forms, styles and purposes of drama in various contexts.

 The organisers of the Drama outcomes are forming, presenting and responding.

Forming

Students explore ideas, feelings and experiences by collaborating in a wide range of activities such as dramatic play, roleplay, improvisation and playbuilding. They learn to control, manage and synthesise the elements and conventions of drama as they create and shape dramatic action.

Presenting

Students rehearse, refine, share and perform scripted and student-devised dramatic works to audiences in both informal and formal settings. Working in a range of forms, styles and contexts, they apply performance skills to convey meaning to audiences.

 Responding

Students describe, analyse and evaluate the elements and conventions used in their own drama and drama produced by others. They develop an informed appreciation of drama from a range of cultural, social, spiritual, historical, political and economic contexts.

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