Early Years Curriculum Year 1 Learning The Arts Essential Learnings Guidelines Preparatory Year Statements by the end of Year 3 — Active learning processes Active learning processes Assessable elements Ways of working — The Arts Imagining and responding Creating Students are able to: Imagining and responding Children generate, represent and respond create and shape arts works by Children build knowledge, to ideas, experiences and possibilities by: combining arts elements to express understanding and skills to: personal ideas, feelings and experimenting with materials and experiences processes in a variety of creative, create and shape arts works imaginative and innovative ways (dance, drama, media, music Responding respond to arts works and describe and visual art), experimenting discussing and responding to the initial impressions and personal with arts elements to express qualities of their own and others’ interpretations, using arts elements ideas, feelings and representations, experiences and artistic and languages. experiences works. present arts works to familiar Knowledge and understanding audiences. Knowledge and Visual Art understanding Visual Art involves using visual arts elements, concepts, processes and forms (both 2D and 3D) to express ideas, considering particular audiences and particular purposes, through images and objects. Source: Studies Authority 2006, Early Years Curriculum Source: Studies Authority 2009, Year 1 Source: Studies Authority 2007, The Arts Essential Learnings by the end of Year 3, QSA, Guidelines, QSA, . Learning Statements, QSA, . .
Early Years Curriculum Guidelines — Preparatory Year Year 1 Learning Statements The Arts Essential Learnings by the end of Year 3 Active learning processes Imagining and responding Children generate, represent and respond to ideas, experiences and possibilities by: experimenting with materials and processes in a variety of creative, imaginative and innovative ways discussing and responding to the qualities of their own and others’ representations, experiences and artistic works. Active learning processes — The Arts Imagining and responding Children build knowledge, understanding and skills to: create and shape arts works (dance, drama, media, music and visual art), experimenting with arts elements to express ideas, feelings and experiences present arts works to familiar audiences. Assessable elements Ways of working Creating Students are able to: create and shape arts works by combining arts elements to express personal ideas, feelings and experiences Responding respond to arts works and describe initial impressions and personal interpretations, using arts elements and languages. Knowledge and understanding Knowledge and understanding Visual Art Visual Art involves using visual arts elements, concepts, processes and forms (both 2D and 3D) to express ideas, considering particular audiences and particular purposes, through images and objects. Source: Studies Authority 2006, Early Years Curriculum Guidelines, QSA, . Source: Studies Authority 2009, Year 1 Learning Statements, QSA, . Source: Studies Authority 2007, The Arts Essential Learnings by the end of Year 3, QSA, .