Creative arts is mandatory for students from Kindergarten to Year 6.
In creative arts, students discover a variety of art forms through a study of dance, drama, music and visual arts where they learn to appreciate, compose, listen, make and perform.
Each art form has its own unique knowledge and skills, elements or concepts as well as a capacity to inspire and enrich lives.
Music
In music lessons, students engage in performing, listening to and composing music, developing an understanding of music as a form of personal and cultural expression and a way of connecting through sounds and silence.
Students in Years 3-6 also have the opportunity to join the school choir, who rehearse weekly and performed at school events and the Blacktown Festival of Performing Arts.
Dance
In dance lessons, students engage in composing, performing and appreciating and develop an understanding of dance as a distinct form of human movement that uses the body as an instrument to express and communicate ideas.
Visual Arts
In Visual Arts lessons, students engage in making, appreciating and exhibiting, developing an understanding of the ways subject matter and ideas about the world are represented in artworks and how artists communicate ideas to audiences.
Drama
In Drama lessons, students engage in making, performing and appreciating and develop an understanding of drama as a practice of embodied storytelling and a way of communicating meaning using imagination to enact people, worlds and experiences.
Students with a particular interest or flair for drama may also participate in Drama Club.