The Arts

The Arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. Together they provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences. (From The Australian Curriculum – The Arts rationale).

At Henley Beach Primary School, all students have lessons in the Performing Arts taught by specialist teachers. Students develop their skills in Dance, Drama and Music. They learn to work in groups to create their own items and to perform to an audience. They also perform other artists’ work (for example, singing a song written by someone else). By developing their skills and by performing to others, students develop their confidence and express their creativity. Students learn to be respectful audience members and to discuss their responses to performances showing an understanding of the elements of each of the Arts forms. At the end of the year, the students perform with their classes in a concert or musical play that combines the Performing Arts.