The Arts
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Through the Arts, people share stories, ideas, knowledge and understanding. The Arts engage our senses and give us ways to imagine, celebrate, communicate and challenge ways of knowing, being, doing and becoming. Participating in quality arts experiences and practices enriches our social and emotional wellbeing. It fosters development of our imagination and enables us to reach our creative and intellectual potential.
The distinctive languages, knowledge and practices of each Arts discipline in the Victorian Curriculum F–10 enable learners to play, explore, question, challenge and imagine new possibilities as they create, embody, design, represent, collaborate and communicate ideas, emotions, observations and experiences. The Arts foster rich cross-curriculum opportunities for learners as they grow in their understanding of self and others, and as they make sense of, interpret and respond to their real and imagined worlds.
In the Victorian Curriculum F–10, the Arts include Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design. Through making and responding, students learn as artists and audiences in 4 interrelated strands: Exploring, Developing Practices, Creating and Presenting.
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Learn more about the Arts disciplines, their structure and how to strengthen learning in the Arts by reading the introduction to the Arts.
See how the 6 Arts disciplines align by viewing the Arts alignment documents:
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To find out more about the Arts in Foundation to Level 6, watch ‘Understanding the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0, The Arts Foundation to Level 6’, below.
To find out about the individual Arts disciplines in Levels 7–10, watch the videos on their Resources pages.
