The Arts Scope and Sequence: Foundation to Year 10 (by band)
The Arts: Foundation to Year 2
Thread
Dance
Drama
Media Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Exploring ideas and
improvising with
ways to represent
ideas
Explore, improvise and
organise ideas to make
dance sequences using the
elements of dance
Explore role and dramatic
action in dramatic play,
improvisation and process
drama
Explore ideas, characters
and settings in the
community through stories
in images, sounds and text
Develop aural skills by
exploring and imitating
sounds, pitch and rhythm
patterns using voice,
movement and body
percussion
Explore ideas, experiences,
observations and
imagination to create visual
artworks and design,
including considering ideas
in artworks by Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
artists
Developing
understanding of
practices
Use fundamental movement
skills to develop technical
skills when practising dance
sequences
Use voice, facial expression,
movement and space to
imagine and establish role
and situation
Use media technology to
capture and edit images,
sounds and text for a
purpose
Sing and play instruments to
improvise, practice a
repertoire of chants, songs
and rhymes, including songs
used by cultural groups in
the community
Use and experiment with
different materials,
techniques, technologies
and processes to make
artworks
Sharing artworks
through
performance,
presentation or
display
Present dance that
communicate ideas to an
audience, including dance
used by cultural groups in
the community
Present drama that
communicates ideas,
including stories from their
community, to an audience
Create compositions and
perform music to
communicate ideas to an
audience
Create and display artworks
to communicate ideas to an
audience
Responding to and
interpreting artworks
Respond to dance and
consider where and why
people dance, starting with
dances from Australia
including dances of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Respond to drama and
consider where and why
people make drama, starting
with Australian drama,
including drama of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Respond to music and
consider where and why
people make music, starting
with Australian music,
including music of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples
Respond to visual artworks
and consider where and why
people make visual
artworks, starting with visual
artworks from Australia,
including visual artworks of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Create and present
media artworks that
communicate ideas and
stories to an audience
Respond to media artworks
and consider where and why
people make media
artworks, starting with media
from Australia, including
media artworks of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples
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The Arts: Years 3 and 4
Thread
Dance
Drama
Media Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Exploring ideas and
improvising with
ways to represent
ideas
Improvise and structure
movement ideas for dance
sequences using the
elements of dance and
choreographic devices
Explore ideas and narrative
structures through roles and
situations and use empathy
in their own improvisations
and devised drama
Investigate and devise
representations of people in
their community, including
themselves, through
settings, ideas and story
structure in images, sounds
and text
Develop aural skills by
exploring, imitating and
recognising elements of
music including dynamics,
pitch and rhythm patterns
Explore ideas and artworks
from different cultures and
times, including artwork by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander artists, to use as
inspiration for their own
representations
Developing
understanding of
practices
Practise technical skills
safely in fundamental
movements
Use voice, body, movement
and language to sustain role
and relationships and create
dramatic action with a sense
of time and place
Use media technologies to
create time and space
through the manipulation of
images, sounds and text to
tell stories
Practise singing, playing
instruments and improvising
music, using elements of
music including rhythm,
pitch, dynamics and form in
a range of pieces, including
in music from the local
community
Use materials, techniques
and processes to explore
visual conventions when
making artworks
Sharing artworks
through
performance,
presentation or
display
Perform dances using
expressive skills to
communicate ideas,
including telling
cultural or community
stories
Shape and perform
dramatic action using
narrative structures
and tension in devised
and scripted drama,
including exploration
of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
drama
Plan, create and
present media
artworks for specific
purposes with
awareness of
responsible media
practice
Create, perform and
record compositions
by selecting and
organising sounds,
silence, tempo and
volume
Present artworks and
describe how they
have used visual
conventions to
represent their ideas
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The Arts: Years 3 and 4
Thread
Responding to and
interpreting artworks
Dance
Identify how the
elements of dance
and production
elements express
ideas in dance they
make, perform and
experience as
audience, including
exploration of
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander dance
Drama
Identify intended
purposes and
meaning of drama,
starting with
Australian drama,
including drama of
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander
Peoples, using the
elements of drama to
make comparisons
Media Arts
Identify intended
purposes and
meanings of media
artworks using media
arts key concepts,
starting with media
artworks in Australia,
including media
artworks of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Music
Identify intended
purposes and
meanings as they
listen to music, using
the elements of music
to make comparisons,
starting with
Australian music,
including music of
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander
Peoples
Visual Arts
Identify purposes and
meanings of artworks
using visual arts
terminology to
compare artworks,
starting with visual
artworks from
Australia, including
visual artworks of
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander
Peoples
The Arts: Years 5 and 6
Thread
Dance
Drama
Media Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Exploring ideas and
improvising with
ways to represent
ideas
Explore movement and
choreographic devices,
using the elements of dance
to choreograph dances that
communicate meaning
Explore dramatic action,
empathy and space in
improvisations, playbuilding
and scripted drama to
develop characters and
situations
Explore representations,
characterisations and points
of view of people in their
community, including
themselves, using settings,
ideas, story principles and
genre conventions in
images, sounds and text
Explore dynamics and
expression, using aural skills
to identify and perform
rhythm and pitch patterns
Explore ideas and practices
used by artists, including
practices of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander artists,
to represent different views,
beliefs and opinions
Developing
understanding of
practices
Develop technical and
expressive skills in
fundamental movements
including body control,
accuracy, alignment,
strength, balance and
coordination
Develop skills and
techniques of voice and
movement to create
character, mood and
atmosphere, and focus
dramatic action
Develop skills with media
technologies to shape
space, time, movement and
lighting within images,
sounds and text
Develop technical and
expressive skills in singing
and playing instruments with
understanding of rhythm,
pitch and form in a range of
pieces, including in music
from the community
Develop and apply
techniques and processes
when making their artworks
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Sharing artworks
through
performance,
presentation or
display
Perform dance using
expressive skills to
communicate a
choreographers ideas,
including performing dances
of cultural groups in the
community
Rehearse and perform
devised and scripted drama
that develops narrative,
drives dramatic tension, and
uses dramatic symbol,
performance styles and
design elements to share
community and cultural
stories and engage an
audience
Plan, produce and present
media artworks for specific
audiences and purposes,
using responsible media
practice
Rehearse and perform
music, including music they
have composed, by
improvising, sourcing and
arranging ideas and making
decisions to engage an
audience
Plan the display of artworks
to enhance their meaning for
an audience
Responding to and
interpreting artworks
Identify how the elements of
dance and production
elements express ideas in
dance they make, perform
and experience as
audience, including
exploration of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander dance
Identify intended purposes
and meaning of drama,
starting with Australian
drama, including drama of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples, using the
elements of drama to make
comparisons
Identify intended purposes
and meanings of media
artworks using media arts
key concepts, starting with
media artworks in Australia,
including media artworks of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Identify intended purposes
and meanings as they listen
to music, using the elements
of music to make
comparisons, starting with
Australian music, including
music of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
Peoples
Identify purposes and
meanings of artworks using
visual arts terminology to
compare artworks, starting
with visual artworks from
Australia, including visual
artworks of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
Peoples
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The Arts: Years 7 and 8
Thread
Dance
Drama
Media Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Exploring ideas and
improvising with
ways to represent
ideas
Combine elements of dance
and improvise by making
literal movements into
abstract movements
Combine the elements of
drama in devised and
scripted drama to explore
and develop issues, ideas
and themes
Experiment with the
organisation of ideas to
structure stories through
media conventions and
genres to create points of
view in images, sounds and
text
Experiment with texture and
timbre in sound sources
using aural skills
Experiment with visual arts
conventions and techniques,
including exploration of
techniques used by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander artists, to represent
a theme, concept or idea in
their artwork
Manipulating and
applying the
elements/concepts
with intent
Develop their choreographic
intent by applying the
elements of dance to select
and organise movement
Develop roles and
characters consistent with
situation, dramatic forms
and performance styles to
convey status, relationships
and intentions
Develop media
representations to show
familiar or shared social and
cultural values and beliefs,
including those of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples
Develop musical ideas, such
as mood, by improvising,
combining and manipulating
the elements of music
Develop ways to enhance
their intentions as artists
through exploration of how
artists use materials,
techniques, technologies
and processes
Developing and
refining
understanding of
skills and techniques
Practise and refine technical
skills in style-specific
techniques
Plan, structure and rehearse
drama, exploring ways to
communicate and refine
dramatic meaning for
theatrical effect
Develop and refine media
production skills to shape
the technical and symbolic
elements of images, sounds
and text for a specific
purpose and meaning
Practise and rehearse a
variety of music, including
Australian music, to develop
technical and expressive
skills
Develop planning skills for
art-making by exploring
techniques and processes
used by different artists
Structuring and
organising ideas into
form
Structure dances using
choreographic devices and
form
Develop and refine
expressive skills in voice
and movement to
communicate ideas and
dramatic action in different
performance styles and
conventions, including
contemporary Australian
drama styles developed by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander dramatists
Plan, structure and design
media artworks that engage
audiences
Structure compositions by
combining and manipulating
the elements of music using
notation
Practise techniques and
processes to enhance
representation of ideas in
their art-making
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Sharing artworks
through
performance,
presentation or
display
Rehearse and perform
focussing on expressive
skills appropriate to style
and/or choreographic intent
Perform devised and
scripted drama maintaining
commitment to role
Present media artworks for
different community and
institutional contexts with
consideration of ethical and
regulatory issues
Perform and present a
range of music, using
techniques and expression
appropriate to style
Present artwork
demonstrating consideration
of how the artwork is
displayed to enhance the
artists intention to an
audience
Analysing and
reflecting upon
intentions
Analyse how
choreographers use
elements of dance and
production elements to
communicate intent
Analyse how the elements
of drama have been
combined in devised and
scripted drama to convey
different forms, performance
styles and dramatic meaning
Analyse how technical and
symbolic elements are used
in media artworks to create
representations influenced
by story, genre, values and
points of view of particular
audiences
Analyse composers use of
the elements of music and
stylistic features when
listening to and interpreting
music
Analyse how artists use
visual conventions in
artworks
Responding to and
interpreting artworks
Identify and connect specific
features and purposes of
dance from contemporary
and past times to explore
viewpoints and enrich their
dance-making, starting with
dance in Australia and
including dance of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Identify and connect specific
features and purposes of
drama from contemporary
and past times to explore
viewpoints and enrich their
drama making, starting with
drama in Australia and
including drama of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Identify specific features and
purposes of media artworks
from contemporary and past
times to explore viewpoints
and enrich their media arts
making, starting with
Australian media artworks,
including Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander media
artworks
Identify and connect specific
features and purposes of
music from different eras to
explore viewpoints and
enrich their music-making,
starting with Australian
music, including music of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
Identify and connect specific
features and purposes of
visual artworks from
contemporary and past
times to explore viewpoints
and enrich their art- making,
starting with Australian
artworks, including those of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples
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The Arts: Years 9 and 10
Thread
Dance
Drama
Media Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Exploring ideas and
improvising with
ways to represent
ideas
Improvise to find new
movement possibilities and
explore personal style by
combining elements of
dance
Improvise with the elements
of drama and narrative
structure to develop ideas,
and explore subtext to
shape devised and scripted
drama
Experiment with ideas and
stories that manipulate
media conventions and
genres to construct new and
alternative points of view
through images, sounds and
text
Improvise and arrange
music, using aural
recognition of texture,
dynamics and expression, to
manipulate the elements of
music to explore personal
style in composition and
performance
Conceptualise and develop
representations of themes,
concepts or subject matter to
experiment with their
developing personal style,
reflecting on the styles of
artists, including Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
artists
Manipulating and
applying the
elements/concepts
with intent
Manipulate combinations of
the elements of dance and
choreographic devices to
communicate their
choreographic intent
Manipulate combinations of
the elements of drama to
develop and convey the
physical and psychological
aspects of roles and
characters consistent with
intentions in dramatic forms
and performance styles
Manipulate media
representations to identify
and examine social and
cultural values and beliefs,
including those of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples
Manipulate combinations of
the elements of music in a
range of styles, using
technology and notation
Manipulate materials,
techniques, technologies
and processes to develop
and represent their own
artistic intentions
Developing and
refining
understanding of
skills and techniques
Practise and refine technical
skills to develop proficiency
in genre- and style-specific
techniques
Practise and refine the
expressive capacity of voice
and movement to
communicate ideas and
dramatic action in a range of
forms, styles and
performance spaces,
including exploration of
those developed by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander dramatists
Develop and refine media
production skills to integrate
and shape the technical and
symbolic elements in
images, sounds and text for
a specific purpose, meaning
and style
Practise and rehearse to
refine a variety of
performance repertoire with
increasing technical and
interpretative skill
Develop and refine
techniques and processes
to represent ideas and
subject matter
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Structuring and
organising ideas into
form
Structure dances using
movement motifs,
choreographic devices and
form
Structure drama to engage
an audience through
manipulation of dramatic
action, forms and
performance styles, and by
using design elements
Plan and design media
artworks for a range of
purposes that challenge the
expectations of specific
audiences by particular use
of production processes
Plan and organise
compositions with an
understanding of style and
convention, including
drawing upon Australian
music by Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander artists
Plan and design artworks
that represent artistic
intention
Sharing artworks
through
performance,
presentation or
display
Perform dances using genre
and style-specific
techniques, and expressive
skills to communicate a
choreographers intent
Perform devised and
scripted drama, making
deliberate artistic choices
and shaping design
elements to unify
dramatic-meaning for an
audience
Produce and distribute
media artworks for a range
of community and
institutional contexts, and
consider social, ethical and
regulatory issues
Perform music applying
techniques and expression
to interpret the composers
use of elements of music
Present ideas for displaying
artworks and evaluate
displays of artworks
Analysing and
reflecting upon
intentions
Evaluate their own
choreography and
performance, and that of
others, to inform and refine
future work
Evaluate how the elements
of drama, forms and
performance styles in
devised and scripted drama
convey meaning and
aesthetic effect
Evaluate how technical and
symbolic elements are
manipulated in media
artworks to create and
challenge representations
framed by media
conventions, social beliefs
and values for a range of
audiences
Evaluate a range of music
and compositions to inform
and refine their own
compositions and
performances
Evaluate how
representations
communicate artistic
intentions in artworks they
make and view to inform
their future art making
Responding to and
interpreting artworks
Analyse a range of dance
from contemporary and past
times to explore differing
viewpoints and enrich their
dance-making, starting with
dance from Australia and
including dance of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples, and
consider dance in
international contexts
Analyse a range of drama
from contemporary and past
times to explore differing
viewpoints and enrich their
drama-making, starting with
drama from Australia,
including drama of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples, and
consider drama in
international contexts
Analyse a range of media
artworks from contemporary
and past times to explore
differing viewpoints and
enrich their media arts
making, starting with
Australian media artworks,
including media artworks of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples, and
international media artworks
Analyse a range of music
from contemporary and past
times to explore differing
viewpoints and enrich their
music-making, starting with
Australian music, including
music of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
Peoples, and consider
music in international
contexts
Analyse a range of visual
artworks from contemporary
and past times to explore
differing viewpoints and
enrich their visual artmaking, starting with
Australian artworks,
including those of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples, and consider
international artworks
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