K–6Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus (2024)
The new Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027. The Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus (2006) will not be available after December 2028.
2026 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Early Stage 1
- CAE-VIS-01
experiments with and identifies ways materials and techniques are used to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks
Make artworks inspired by personal experiences or imagination to represent Loading and ideas
Experiment with ways to make marks, types of lines and shapes, using drawing materials and techniques
Experiment with primary colours and ways to make secondary colours
Explore painting and printmaking materials and techniques, experimenting with tools to create effects
Manipulate malleable materials to explore sculptural techniques and mould 3D forms
Explore construction techniques to make a collage, relief or 3D sculptural form using mixed media materials
Explore ways to use materials and tools, developing fine motor skills
Demonstrate an awareness of safe artmaking practices
Identify Loading where artworks are displayed, exhibited or experienced
Present artworks or samples of own work to share ideas with an audience
Express ideas or feelings about own and others' artworks
Identify subject matter, materials, techniques, lines, shapes, colours and patterns in artworks, using Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary
Observe artworks from Loading around the world to explore ways artists represent ideas about their world
Recognise ways Loading or Loading are represented in artworks
Explore how artists represent subject matter and ideas in artworks