Welcome to Creative Arts K-6
The Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus comprehensively sets out a rationale for the inclusion of dance, drama, music and visual arts in the 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.
The Creative Arts Unit
The Creative Arts unit provides support for syllabus implementation in Creative Arts. We are responsible for managing state-wide curriculum initiatives, providing policy advice on curriculum matters and liaising with the Board of Studies, other government agencies and other external organisations, including the arts industry and community groups.
The Creative Arts unit produces materials for schools to support the implementation of syllabuses and strategically plans state-wide professional development for teachers in Creative Arts. This web site provides online resources for all stages of learning in dance, drama, music and visual arts, as well as links to research and other agencies that support teachers to implement the syllabuses.
ConnectED Arts
ConnectEd Arts is a joint initiative of the Department of the Arts, Sports & Recreation and the NSW Department of Education & Training. This arts and education initiative aims to increase access to quality arts experiences for NSW school students.
The 2007 ConnectEd Arts strategy targets the Hunter/Central Coast and North Coast regions. As well as the primary programs that will be offered in 2007, we continue to develop special programs designed to assist artists and arts organisations to work more effectively with the school sector. All ConnectEd Arts programs are fully subsidised by Arts NSW and provided to participants free of charge. Over 18,000 students from approximately 350 schools are expected to benefit from the ConnectEd Arts strategy in 2007.
For more information about this initiative, follow this link to the ConnectED Arts web site.
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