Achievement standard: Foundation Year
Learning area achievement standard
By the end of the Foundation year, students describe experiences, observations, ideas and/or feelings about arts works they encounter at school, home and/or in the community.
Students use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to create and share arts works in different forms.
Achievement standard: Years 1 and 2
Learning area achievement standard
By the end of Year 2, students identify where they experience the arts. They describe where, why and/or how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience the arts.
Students demonstrate arts practices and skills across arts subjects. They create arts works in a range of forms. They share their work in informal settings.
Subject achievement standard
By the end of Year 2, students identify where they experience dance. They describe where, why and/or how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience dance.
Students use the elements of dance to structure dance sequences. They demonstrate fundamental movement skills and safe dance practice. They perform their dance in informal settings.
Achievement standard: Years 3 and 4
Learning area achievement standard
By the end of Year 4, students describe use of elements, concepts and/or conventions in arts works they create and/or experience. They describe where, why and/or how arts works are created and presented across cultures, times and/or places, and/or other contexts.
Students use arts knowledge and skills to create arts works in a range of forms that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They present and/or perform their work in informal settings.
Subject achievement standard
By the end of Year 4, students describe use of the elements of dance in dance they experience, create and/or perform. They describe where, why and/or how dance is choreographed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
Students use the elements of dance to structure dance sequences that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They demonstrate fundamental movement skills and safe dance practice. They perform their dance in informal settings.
Achievement standard: Years 5 and 6
Learning area achievement standard
By the end of Year 6, students explain the use of elements, concepts and/or conventions in arts works they create and/or experience. They describe how the arts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. They describe how the arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures.
Students use subject-specific knowledge, elements, concepts, conventions, materials, skills and/or processes to create arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They demonstrate safe practices. They present and perform their arts works in formal and/or informal settings.
Subject achievement standard
By the end of Year 6, students explain how the elements of dance are used in dance that they choreograph, perform and/or experience. They describe how dance from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe how dance is used to continue and revitalise cultures.
Students use the elements of dance and/or choreographic devices to choreograph dances that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They demonstrate safe dance practice and use of technical, and expressive skills. They perform dances in informal and/or formal settings.