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 visual arts. They describe where, why and/or how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience visual arts.
Students experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials. They make and share artworks 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 the use of visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials in artworks they create and/or experience. They describe where, why and/or how visual artists create and/or display artworks across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
Students use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They share or display their artworks and/or visual arts practice 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 the ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are used in artworks they create and/or experience. They describe how artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe how visual arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures.
Students develop and document ideas for their own artworks. They select and use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They present documentation and artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives or meaning in informal and/or formal settings.