K–6Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus
The new Creative Arts K−6 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027.
2025 and 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.
Content
Early Stage 1
- CAE-DRA-01
experiments with and identifies ways feelings, ideas, roles and situations are embodied and enacted in drama
Use imagination to explore ideas and situations through dramatic play, still image, puppetry and object play
Engage in dramatic play using costumes, props and objects to explore feelings, roles and characters
Use voice, language, mime or movement to express feelings and embody roles or characters
Enact a real or imagined situation or story using puppets, toys, objects or other stimuli
Demonstrate an awareness of self and relationship with others within a performance space
Embody feelings, roles and characters while interacting with others
Perform drama scenarios with awareness of an audience
Demonstrate an awareness of safe drama practices
Identify contexts where drama is performed
Express ideas or feelings in response to drama experiences
Identify roles, situations or stories in a performance, using Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary
Observe drama from cultures around the world and discuss how stories and ideas are enacted
Recognise ways Aboriginal Dreaming Stories or Torres Strait Islander Legends are enacted in performances