The Arts

Newbury Primary School provides an outstanding Arts Program for all children encompassing Visual Arts and Performing Arts.  All students from Years Prep to Year 6 participate in a weekly specialist Arts lesson (6 months of each).

Performing Arts at Newbury Primary School allows all students to participate in lessons that incorporate Dance, Drama and Music.  Students are given many opportunities to perform, act, sing, dance and gain overall confidence in a safe and encouraging environment.   Lunchtime Dance Clubs are offered to all students where they learn dances and perform them at school assemblies. Arts Community Clubs are offered to all students.  Students are also given opportunities to participate in community events such as ‘School of Rock’. 

  
Visual Arts at Newbury Primary School allows all students to explore their creative side. Students are given opportunities to feel free and confident to express ideas in a calm and friendly atmosphere and are encouraged to respond to the artwork of others.  Students participate in activities that include areas such as drawing, painting and collage.  The Visual Arts program incorporates both art making, understanding and appreciation.

Visual Arts

The Visual Arts curriculum aims to develop students’:

• conceptual and perceptual ideas and representations through inquiry processes
• knowledge and skills in using visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials
• critical and creative thinking skills through engagement with and development of visual arts practice and creative processes
• respect for and acknowledgement of the diverse roles, innovations, traditions, histories and cultures of artists and craftspeople; visual arts as social and cultural practices; and industry as artists and viewers or audiences
• confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment
• personal expression through engagement with visual arts practices and ways of expressing, representing and communicating.

Dance

The Dance curriculum aims to develop students’:

• capacity as artists and audiences
• play and playful movement
• body awareness and technical and expressive skills to communicate through movement confidently, creatively and intelligently
• choreographic and performance skills and appreciation of their own and others’ dances
• aesthetic, artistic and cultural understandings of dance in past and contemporary contexts, its relationships with other art forms and its contributions to cultures and societies
• respect for and knowledge of the diverse purposes, traditions, histories and cultures of dance by making and responding as active participants and informed audiences
• knowledge of the diversity and significance of dance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ artistry, cultures and communities.

Drama

The Drama curriculum aims to develop students’:

• conceptual and perceptual ideas through embodied practices and inquiry processes
• confidence and self-esteem to explore, depict and celebrate human experience, take risks and challenge their own creativity
• knowledge and understanding in applying and analysing the elements, processes, forms, styles and techniques of drama to engage audiences and create and convey meaning
• a sense of curiosity, aesthetic knowledge and achievement through exploring and playing roles, and imagining situations, actions and ideas as artists and audiences
• knowledge and understanding of traditional and contemporary drama as critical and active participants, artists and audiences
• knowledge of the language of drama and theatre.

Music

The Music curriculum aims to develop students’:

• confidence to be creative, innovative, thoughtful, skilful and informed musicians
• skills to listen, improvise, compose, interpret, perform and respond with intent and purpose
• aesthetic knowledge and respect for music and music practices across global communities, cultures and musical traditions
• understanding of music as an aural art form, its relationship with other art forms and contributions to cultures and societies.