The Arts Level 1 (Prep)
All students should experience learning in Performing Arts (Dance, Drama and Music) and Visual Arts (Art: two-dimensional and three-dimensional, and Media) disciplines and forms. Learning and teaching programs at this level involve these arts disciplines individually (for example, Music) or in combination (for example, Dance and Drama, or Media and Visual Arts – Art: two-dimensional and three-dimensional).
Learning focus
As students work towards the achievement of Level 1 standards in the Arts, they make performing and visual arts works that express and communicate experiences, observations, ideas and feelings about themselves and their world. With guidance, they make arts works in traditional and contemporary (including digital) arts forms in response to stimuli drawn from sources such as play, problem solving, imagination, observation, incursions and excursions. Students’ natural tendency to discovering possibilities and limitations is encouraged through exploring different ways of using performing and visual arts elements, principles and/or conventions, skills, techniques and processes, media, materials and technologies.
For example, students could:
- in Art, use a range of mark making tools to explore as many ways as possible to apply wet and dry media
- in Dance (after the safe dance practice of a warm up for the body), communicate the idea of a leaf in the wind by using movements to shift body weight in different ways
- in Drama, communicate a character’s feelings at different points in a story through facial expression, gesture and other non-vocal language
- in Media, make and record sound effects to accompany a story book they have created
- in Music, use body percussion, found and made percussion instruments and their voices to create a soundscape about changes in the weather.
As part of their arts making, students talk about ways in which the Arts are part of their personal experience, as well as cultural and social events in their community. They discuss and express opinions about arts ideas they are exploring and works they are creating and, with guidance, begin to use arts language to describe features of their own and others’ arts works. They learn about ways of making personal responses to arts works based on sensory perception, and consider ways that they and others can be both makers and audience.
Further examples of arts discipline-specific learning approaches for Level 1 will be published soon.
Standard
Creating and making
At Level 1, students make and share performing and visual arts works that communicate observations, personal ideas, feelings and experiences. They explore and, with guidance, use a variety of arts elements (on their own or in combination), skills, techniques and processes, media, materials, equipment and technologies in a range of arts forms. They talk about aspects of their own arts works, and arts works and events in their community.
In the Arts, standards for the Exploring and responding dimension are introduced at Level 3.
Downloads
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The Arts booklet (
PDF - 249KB) - The Arts standards table (Doc - 41KB)
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Victorian Essential Learning Standards Level 1 ( PDF - 702KB)
