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7–10Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

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.

Art making: Viewpoints
Structural
  • Explore the use of signs, symbols or codes

  • Recognise how to use forms of visual and/or multisensory language to communicate to audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make an artwork about the world that use signs, symbols or codes to communicate ideas

Subjective
  • Identify a personal emotion, experience or memory for an artwork

  • Recognise how materials or techniques can create sensory or emotional responses from audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make an artwork about the world that represents personal, sensory or imagined experiences

Cultural
  • Identify a cultural, community or social interest or experience for an artwork

  • Recognise art making choices that share social and cultural experiences with audiences and apply in own art making and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make an artwork about the world that represents social or cultural interests or experiences

Contemporary
  • Identify a social interest or concern that is personally significant

  • Explore innovative forms or materials that allow audiences to interact with artworks in new ways and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make an artwork about the world that questions or raises awareness about contemporary ideas

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