11–12Music Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025)
The new Music Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the Music Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2009).
2026
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Continue to teach the Music Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2009) for Year 12
2027, Term 4
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 12
Content
Life Skills
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
Students perform, create, listen and respond to music to develop their creative practice as composers, performers and interpreters of music. They create and shape original material through improvisation, songwriting and composition, using voice, instruments and digital tools. Students explore how techniques, including performing and expression, are used to communicate musical ideas.
Music context and Elements of music should be integrated with this focus area as appropriate to the needs, abilities and prior learning of students.
Experiment with performing loud and soft sounds vocally or with instruments
Experiment with ways to soften or dampen the sound of a musical instrument
Make decisions about how to perform music to engage with an audience
Use silence to create an effect when vocalising or playing instruments
Use dynamics and expression to shape a performance
Respond to others’ use of expression when performing in a group
Identify how dynamics and expression are used to communicate meaning
Explore how the Elements of music are used in a piece of music
Recognise changes in sounds created by instrument-specific techniques
Reflect on how the Elements of music are used to communicate meaning in music
Improvise to create musical ideas
Use technology to combine and layer sounds
Use digital sounds to communicate ideas
Document performance techniques
Reflect on the use of expression in own composition
Demonstrate safe practices when listening and responding, creating and composing or performing music
Demonstrate hygiene protocols when sharing instruments and resources
Demonstrate respectful and cooperative behaviours when working with others
Demonstrate appropriate protocols when engaging with live or online music
Acknowledge composers, arrangers and/or collaborators when performing, creating or composing pieces of music