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Welcome to Physical Arts
Aims and philosophy
The Creative and Physical Arts learning centre comprehensively sets out a rationale for the inclusion of dance, drama, music and physical education in the curriculum.
The subjects within the learning centre 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 art form.
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 practice 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.
