Senior Years Band - SACSA Framework

South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability Framework
Strand: arts practice
Arts practice enables freedom of expression of thoughts and feelings in individual and diverse
ways and develops a sense of personal and group identity. KC2 It involves generating,
planning and experimenting with ideas; risk-taking and uncertainty; bringing a new product into
existence; and/or reworking and transforming existing works or ideas. KC3 • KC6 While the
works of some artists are personal and private, most arts works are made to be performed or
presented to audiences/viewers/users. KC2 Sometimes the audiences represent family, social,
cultural or religious groups. At other times, as with film/video or with online performance and
presentation, the audience is unknown and unlimited. Students come to school with extensive,
rich and diverse prior learning in one arts form or more and this cultural knowledge is a rich
resource for themselves, their peers and their learning community. Arts are for all students, no
matter what their skills and talents or their aspirations as arts practitioners.
In the Senior Years of schooling, students choose a focus for their work in arts and thus have
the opportunity to develop more specialised understanding in their chosen arts form(s). KC1
They have an awareness of their own capacities, and their subject choices may be based on
their skills and talents, their prior knowledge and experiences, an area of interest, or career
preferences. Having developed a preference for working in an arts form or combined forms,
they explore the aesthetic potential and limitations of the materials and techniques of a chosen
medium, be it aural, kinaesthetic, visual and/or tactile. KC1 Choices may also have an
increasingly vocational focus and provide opportunities for students to develop sophisticated
options in preparation for the world beyond school, including university study, training
programs, paid or unpaid work, voluntary work and community work. Id • T • KC1
When students in the Senior Years are given opportunities to generate and refine their own arts
ideas, they develop a positive sense of self, a capacity for expressing personal vision and
opinion, and an outlet for natural talents. KC1 They use sustained approaches to their work,
enabling them to explore and develop ideas, and may produce several versions or
interpretations of an arts work in pursuit of one idea. KC6 They challenge prevailing values and
explore alternative solutions by being imaginative, taking risks and extending the limits of the
arts form itself. Their ideas, visions and inspirations are increasingly influenced by personal
interpretations of social, cultural and political issues. Id • T • C • KC6
In specialist subjects students learn specific technical skills in order to develop innovative arts
works or to interpret arts works with authority. In using sustained and refined technical skills,
students develop the confidence and commitment needed to extend their range and
capabilities. KC3 • KC6 At the same time they may push the aesthetic potential of an existing
or emerging arts form. They control the tools and technologies of arts practice, such as sound
and lighting desks, kilns and computer-aided design software and hardware; and control their
own technical skill in the playing of a musical instrument, or the use of the body in dance or
physical theatre. KC7 Students explore and use emergent technologies both as tools and as
themes in their arts practice. KC7 They develop an understanding of the impact of new
technologies on arts practice, and gain the confidence to explore emergent technologies, by
having frequent opportunities to access them and expert guidance in testing their limits.
T • C • KC1 • KC6
16 Senior Years Band — Arts