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The Arts encompasses six areas of study which are Visual Arts, Visual Communication, Music, Drama, Media and Design Technologies. These areas combine to provide students with an opportunity to explore their expressive and creative abilities and develop their understanding of visual, performance and technological culture. The Arts encourage students to engage in critical and creative thinking and provides a framework for the exploration and development of personal and social ideas and concepts. The Arts nurtures invention and innovation and is essential for the development of cognitive, emotional, sensory and aesthetic intelligences.
Visual Arts:
Overview:
Art is offered as a core subject in Yr 7 and in Yr 9 and Yr 10 as an elective unit at Koonung Secondary College. Units 1-4 Art is offered at VCE level.
Courses are designed in order to assist students in the development of practical and appreciation skills. Students study a range of contemporary and traditional artists and movements and explore a variety of materials, methods, techniques and art forms. Students record their thinking and working practices in a visual diary and collect research and resources to use as inspiration for their resolved pieces. The art elements and principles are studied and applied in practical tasks and analysed in appreciation tasks. A artists and historical movements are explored in art appreciation and are linked to practical tasks.
What we do:
The study of the Visual Arts at Koonung Secondary College centres upon the development of key skills through the dimensions of creating and making and exploring and responding. As students progress through the years at Koonung Secondary College the Visual Arts courses allow for students to tailor their creative capacity into the areas they are most passionate about. Yr 7 Art provides a considered program of 2D and 3D art experiences, whereas the Yr 9 an 10 elective program allows for greater flexibility and an opportunity to specialise in certain art forms. The VCE Art program offers students the opportunity to specialise in art forms of their choice to build a sustained folio of work and resolved pieces.
How it is assessed:
Students are assessed on their ability to develop and record their thinking and working practices and plan and produce a folio of resolved artworks. Students are assessed on their ability to work cooperatively in the classroom and maintain a safe and functional working space. Students study artists and art movements and are assessed on their understanding of the ideas and concepts that emerge from these investigations using a range of written, verbal and visual tools.
What we do in Yr 7 Art:
In Yr 7, students are taught skills in practical art whilst experiencing a variety of materials, methods and techniques. They are encouraged to think and work creatively and a number of practical pieces of work is finished individually. Students are introduced to the theory of art and are expected to keep a visual diary for developmental work and notes. Students complete a written research assignment on an artist they have studied. Click here to go to Year 7 Art
What we do in Yr 8 Art:
In Yr 8, students are taught skills in practical art whilst experiencing a variety of materials, methods and techniques. They are encouraged to think and work creatively and a number of practical pieces of work is finished individually. Students are introduced to the theory of art and are expected to keep a visual diary for developmental work and notes. Students complete a written research assignment on an artist they have studied.
What we do in Yr 9 Art:
Students undertake tasks using a range of methods including drawing, painting, printmaking and three-dimensional sculpture. Students apply the elements and principles of art to their work and develop an understanding for compositional arrangement. Students will critically reflect on their own work and the work of others in Art Appreciation tasks. Impressionism and other modern movements will be explored in practical and written tasks and artworks that feature in current exhibitions will be used as a source of inspiration for coursework.
What we do in Yr 10 Art:
Students will be given the opportunity to develop skills in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking and mixed media. Resolved artworks will be created during the semester using personal ideas and art concepts as starting points. Students will respond to the artwork of 20th Century artists with a particular focus on the modern art movement and social issues in art. Art appreciation and analysis tasks will be integrated and reflect the practical tasks being undertaken.
What we do in Yr 11 Art:
What we do in Unit 1 Art
Students work through two Outcomes in Unit 1 Art.
Outcome 1 - ˜Developing ideas and skills enables students to experiment and explore a range of practical media and techniques and realise visual solutions.
Outcome 2 - Art and society enables students to focus on how art reflects the values, traditions and beliefs of different societies. Social and cultural interpretive frameworks of analysis will be used to compare and contrast artworks and appropriate art terms and vocabulary will be used in written and verbal discussions.
How Unit 1 Art is assessed
Outcome 1 A folio of visual solutions to a selection of set tasks
Outcome 2 Written and/or oral responses, annotated visual responses
What we do in Unit 2 Art
Students work through two Outcomes in Unit 2 Art.
Outcome 1 Exploring ideas and issues - enables students to develop visual solutions in response to personal interests and ideas. Students develop practical skills with an emphasis on a particular art form.
Outcome 2 Art and the individual - enables students to focus on artists and how they express their ideas creatively and individually. The role of artists in society and how they are portrayed will be studied. Appropriate art terms and vocabulary will be used in written and verbal discussions.
How Unit 2 Art is assessed
Outcome 1 A folio of visual solutions in an area or areas of personal interest
Outcome 2 Written and/or oral responses, annotated visual responses
What we do in Unit 3 Art
Students work through two Outcomes in Unit 3 Art.
Outcome 1 ˜Investigation and interpretation - enables students to focus on the development of a sustained body of work within a selected art form in response to personal interests and ideas.
Outcome 2 Interpreting Art - enables students to focus on using interpretive frameworks to respond critically to artworks. Appropriate art terms and vocabulary will be used in written and verbal discussions.
What we do in Yr 12 Art:
Students work through two Outcomes in Unit 3 Art.
Outcome 1 ˜Investigation and interpretation - enables students to focus on the development of a sustained body of work within a selected art form in response to personal interests and ideas.
Outcome 2 ˜Interpreting Art - enables students to focus on using interpretive frameworks to respond critically to artworks. Appropriate art terms and vocabulary will be used in written and verbal discussions.
How Unit 3 Art is assessed
All aspects of Unit 3 will be assessed as School Assessed Coursework (SAC)
Outcome 1 A folio that presents a sustained body of work.
Outcome 2 Written and/or oral responses, annotated visual responses
Outcome 1 coursework contributes 10% to the study score
Outcome 2 coursework contributes 10% to the study score
What we do in Unit 4 Art
Students work through two Outcomes in Unit 4 Art.
Outcome 1 Realisation and resolution focuses on the preparation and presentation of resolved artworks refined from ideas explored in Outcome 3.
Outcome 2 Discussing and debating art - enables students to focus on using interpretive frameworks to discuss and explore meanings and messages in artworks. Students use commentaries on artworks and artists as a starting point to develop and express a point of view. Appropriate art terms and vocabulary will be used in written and verbal discussions.
How Unit 4 Art is assessed
Outcome 1 Unit 3/ Outcome 1 Unit 4 School Assessed Task.
A body of work that demonstrated thinking and working practices which includes the resolution of ideas through finished artworks.
Outcome 2 Written and/or oral responses, annotated visual responses
Outcome 1 Unit 3/ Outcome 1 Unit 4 - contributes 50% to the study score
Outcome 2 coursework contributes 10% to the study score
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