Darfield School Curriculum 2011 Contents

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THE ARTS
What are The Arts about?
The arts are powerful forms of expression that recognise, value, and contribute to the unique bicultural and multicultural character of New Zealand. Through movement, sound and image the arts transform peoples’ creative ideas into expressive works, that communicate meaning and enrich lives.
The arts lay a foundation for lifelong enjoyment and participation.
How are The Arts structured in the New Zealand Curriculum?
The arts are structured into four disciplines. Within each of these there are four interrelated strands: Understanding the Arts in Context, Developing Practical Knowledge, Developing Ideas, and Communicating and Interpreting.
Learning in, through and about the arts stimulates creative action and response by engaging and connecting thinking, imagination, senses and feelings.
Within each discipline students explore, analyse and respond using the elements, vocabularies, processes and technologies to express identities, convey artistic ideas and strengthen social interaction.
Dance is expressive movement that integrates feeling and thinking in response to a variety of

genre and a range of contexts.

Drama communicates and expresses human experiences through effective use of body language, movement, tension, time and space.

Music is a form of expression. Students explore the potential of sound and technologies for creating, interpreting and representing music ideas.

Visual Arts develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness as they manipulate and transform their own and other’s visual worlds.

How are The Arts taught in our school?
To ensure the integrity of the Arts it will be taught as a standalone subject and will also be integrated with other learning areas where appropriate.
Arts Beliefs:
At Darfield Primary School we believe the Arts are an important part of out lives. With its universal language, the Arts can bring people together, give expression to cultural identity, communicate a message, give pleasure and help develop imagination and expressive powers.
At Darfield Primary School we believe all children should have the opportunity to participate in a regular balanced classroom arts programme as making, sharing and responding to Art works are important cognitive, creative and aesthetic activities in the lives of young children.

The Arts programme is also seen as an important opportunity to involve the wider school community in the life and culture of the school. It is important that children are provided with opportunities to experience artists at work and we will explore opportunities for involving local artists to be active participants in the Arts programme.

The Arts will be used in our school to further promote an understanding and awareness of Tikanga and Te Reo Maori.

How do we plan?
Year 1-3 Two Year Arts Plan

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Dance	Integrated into Daily Fitness	Specific Unit	Integrated into Daily Fitness
	Possible Contexts: School wide dance display, visiting performers, School Buskers performing at lunchtime,
Drama	Integrated into other curriculum areas		Integrated into other curriculum areas	Specific Unit
	Possible Contexts: Assembly, visiting performers, plays, Readers Theatre, Progressive Drama,
Music	Developing Practical Knowledge Moving to a beat, singing using accents, patterns of beat, reading and recording rhythmic patterns and graphic notation.	Understanding The Arts in Context Music appreciation, music from other cultures, identify and investigate music styles, comparing styles of music.	Developing ideas Creating own music, communicating different moods and feelings, using shape and contrast, awareness of different sounds, improvisation, using instruments	Communicating & Interpreting Preparing and performing, responding to live performances, simple recording, listening to music and discussing, reflecting on different types of music
	Possible Contexts: visiting performances, school concerts, assemblies, Junior end of year celebration, Tikanga Maori
Visual Arts	See separate Visual Arts Plan
	Possible Contexts: portraits, observations, still life, black and white vs colour, picture books, masks, puppets, mobiles, dioramas, geometric, cubist, cultural celebrations, 3D, play dough, plasticine, perspective
Key Resources: TKI, Celebrate Art NZ, MoE Resource Books, Local Artists, Art Gallery, Up Beat, Music Room, Kiwi Kids

Year 4-6 Two Year Arts Plan

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Dance	Integrated into Daily Fitness	Specific Unit Jump Jam	Integrated into Daily Fitness
	Possible Contexts: School wide dance display, J- Rock, Senior Production, visiting performances.
Drama	Integrated into other curriculum areas		Integrated into other curriculum areas	Specific Unit
	Possible Contexts: Assembly, Senior Production, visiting performance, plays, Readers Theatre,
Music	Developing Practical Knowledge Moving to a beat, singing using accents, patterns of beat, reading and recording rhythmic patterns and graphic notation	Understanding The Arts in Context Music appreciation, music from other cultures, identify and investigate music styles, comparing styles of music	Developing ideas Creating own music, communicating different moods and feelings, using shape and contrast, awareness of different sounds, improvisation, using instruments	Communicating & Interpreting Preparing and performing, responding to live performances, simple recording, listening to music and discussing, reflecting on different types of music
	Possible Contexts: visiting performance, school concerts, assembly, Senior Performance, Tikanga Maori
Visual Arts	See separate Visual Arts Plan
	Possible Contexts: portraits, observations, still life, black and white vs colour, picture books, masks, puppets, mobiles, dioramas, geometric, cubist, cultural celebrations, 3D, play dough, plasticine, perspective
Key Resources: TKI, Celebrate Art NZ, MoE Resource Books, Local Artists, Art Gallery, Up Beat, Music Room, Kiwi Kids

Through these units, pupils will meet the Achievement Objectives at the appropriate level in each of the strands of the Arts curriculum.

Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts

Developing Ideas in the Arts

Communicating and Interpreting in the Arts

Understanding the Arts in Context

Other opportunities for Arts experiences and presentations will be provided through:

Weekly assembly singing
Choir performances in the Community Concert and other local events
Visual Art works for enhancing the school and classroom environment.

How do we Plan in The Arts?
Individual teachers will plan classroom programmes, with consideration given to co-operative planning and resource sharing.

Individual teachers then have the opportunity to utilise personal strengths and support children’s interests.

Unit plans will be written with specific learning outcomes based on the Achievement Objectives for each level, learning experiences and appropriate assessment tasks.

How do we assess and report?
At Darfield Primary School we believe that formative assessment is integral to effective teaching in the Arts and multiple opportunities will be provided for quality feedback and feed-forward throughout the Arts programme by teachers and peers.
The following strategies may be used to gather data for assessment purposes:

Observation of children

Evaluation of work completed according to specific criteria

Opportunities for self and peer reflection

Video and audio recordings.
Reflection by students, individual teachers and teaching teams to enhance learning will be ongoing. Reflection will be used to monitor progress towards learning goals and to establish ‘next step learning’
Reporting
Information about The Arts can be reported to the Board and Parents, through involvement in school events where students are applying the specific skills, elements and techniques within authentic contexts. For example; school and class events that demonstrate drama, visual art, dance and music; community events.

Darfield Primary School THE ARTS TRACKING SHEET
ROOM: _______ YEAR: _________

ARTS UNITS

DANCE

UC

Understanding the Arts in context

PK
Developing practical knowledge

DI
Developing Ideas

CI
Communicating and interpreting

DRAMA

UC
Understanding the Arts in context

PK
Developing practical knowledge

DI
Developing Ideas

CI
Communicating and interpreting

MUSIC

UC
Understanding the Arts in context

PK
Developing practical knowledge

DI
Developing Ideas

CI
Communicating and interpreting

VISUAL ARTS

UC
Understanding the Arts in context

PK
Developing practical knowledge

DI
Developing Ideas

CI
Communicating and interpreting

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