Visual Arts.

Music and Performing Arts

Visual Arts are taught by a specialist teacher F-6 in terms 1 & 2. Through Visual Arts, students at All Saints Parish School make and respond using visual arts knowledge, understanding and skills to express meanings associated with personal views, intrinsic and extrinsic worlds.

Visual Arts engages students in a journey of discovery, experimentation and problem-solving relevant to visual perception and visual language, utilising visual techniques, technologies, practices and processes. Learning in the Visual Arts leads students to become increasingly confident and proficient in achieving their personal visual aesthetic, appreciating and valuing that of others.

Music and performing arts are taught by a specialist teacher in terms 3 & 4.  Music learning combines listening, performing and composing activities. These activities, developed sequentially, enhance students’ capacity to perceive and understand music. As students progress in their experience of a variety of Music styles, they learn to value and appreciate the power of music to transform the heart, soul, mind and spirit of the individual. In this way students develop an aesthetic appreciation and enjoyment of music.

The students are involved in a concert to showcase music and dance in term 3 each year.  Students use the elements of dance to explore choreography and performance and to practise choreographic, technical and expressive skills. Students respond to their own and others’ dances using movement and other forms of communication.

The Arts Teacher; Christine McMahon