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Welcome to The Arts K-6

About The Arts team 

Welcome to The Arts at the NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre.

Margaret Bradley and Rach Kirsten are the two Senior Curriculum Support Officers, The Arts K-12. We provide support to Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts teachers in NSW public schools.

The Arts team provide support for syllabus implementation across The Arts and develop professional learning opportunities and online resources for teachers. We lead a range of national and state arts curriculum initiatives within NSW, provide policy advice for arts curriculum and liaise with agencies such as the NSW Board of Studies, Arts NSW, external organisations and arts industry and community groups.

We'd love you to please join us on Facebook 

VIEW a short presentation of some of our previous projects in The Arts.

artsVoice

artsVoice is our curriculum eNews for dance, drama, music and visual arts. artsVoice is now on issuu! Our bookshelf on issuu contains current and previous editions of artsVoice. Please visit our profile on issuu to read and share each edition of artsVoice. The latest edition is there now, and you can subscribe directly from our issuu page. Our URL is easy to remember... bookmark us now! www.issuu.com/thearts.curriculum

artsXchange: schools

What is artsXchange? artsXchange is an opportunity for rural or remote (non-metropolitan) primary and secondary schools to apply for a grant to subsidise the cost of travel and/or tickets to a performance or exhibition at a NSW arts institution, venue or event. The artsXchange initiative is part of the ConnectEd Arts partnership that the NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre has with Arts NSW. In 2012 there will be up to 20 grants of up to $4,000 available through this partnership. artsXchange is designed to support schools to attend a nominated performance or exhibition and to then exchange ideas and to share aspects of arts teaching and learning with another school. Artistic practice would be the focus and could relate to making or studying practice in either dance, drama, music or visual arts - relevant to the art form (e.g. performance, composition, appreciation, listening, artmaking, critical and historical study). The artsXchange between the two schools must relate to the performance or exhibition that both schools attend. Learn more about artsXchange and download the 2012 application here.

Artist in Schools

The Artist in Schools program creates a unique opportunity for schools to collaborate with professional artists over a period of time. These programs provide unique opportunities for young people in New South Wales primary and secondary schools. Artists from many fields, including dance, drama, music, visual arts and digital media, work collaboratively with schools and communities to develop innovative projects. Professional learning for both artists and teachers is core to the program. CLICK HERE for further information the residencies that are taking place this year.

The importance of arts education

Listen to leading Australian artists share their thoughts about the importance of arts education. 

From left to right:
Brendan Cowell Actor, playwright, director
Meryl Tankard Choreographer
Janet Lawrence Artist
Chris Taylor Political satirist 
Elena Kats-Chernin Composer
Liz Ann MacGregor Artistic director 
Stephen Page Artistic director
Stelios Arcadiou Performance artist 
Hossein Valamanesh Artistic director
Kim Walker Executive director 
Techa Noble Performer 
Nigel Butterly Composer
Peter Sculthorpe Composer
Matthew Doyle Composer, performer
Alana Valentine Playwright
Marion Potts Director

The Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

The Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus outline a comprehensive rationale for the inclusion of dance, drama, music and visual arts in the NSW curriculum.

The artforms offer students opportunities for creative action, aesthetic pleasure and emotional response in the expression of personal and cultural values and beliefs. Students learn to communicate ideas through understanding and using the conventions of the symbol systems or language of each artform.

Learning in the arts

Learning in the arts is underpinned by a belief that all students are able to learn the skills, knowledge and understandings as expressed in the content and outcomes of the syllabus. Furthermore, all students have a right, a curriculum guarantee, to opportunities that will enable them to achieve the outcomes.

Teaching the arts

Teaching practice in the arts is explicit and purposeful. It is deliberate, in that the teacher has a role in establishing the parameters within which students learn. Teaching programs should allow students to build on previous experiences, to practise skills and to apply knowledge in different contexts. Students need opportunities to revisit skills and areas of knowledge so that they can expand their repertoire and increase the complexity of their understanding.

MOVE PRIMARY: Art in motion

MOVE PRIMARY: Art in motion is a new online visual arts resource for primary teachers. The resource has a focus on contemporary art - in particular 4D moving works, and was produced by the NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre in collaboration with Kaldor Public Art Projects.

MOVE PRIMARY is one of a suite of innovative resources we have created with Kaldor Public Art Projects to support visual arts. To learn more about the resources we have produced with Kaldor, please visit again soon!