Essential+Learnings

Ways of working //Students are able to//: • select and develop ideas for arts works, considering intended audiences and intended purposes, and make decisions about arts elements and languages • create and shape arts works by modifying arts elements to express purpose and to include influences from their own and other cultures and times • modify and polish arts works, using interpretive and technical skills • present arts works to informal and formal audiences for intended purposes, using arts techniques, skills and processes • identify, apply and justify safe practices • respond by analysing and evaluating arts works in social, cultural, historical and spiritual contexts, using arts elements and languages • reflect on learning, apply new understandings and identify future applications.
 * Year 7**

Knowledge and understanding: Media Media involves constructing meaning, considering intended audiences and intended purposes, by modifying media languages and technologies to create representations. • Still and moving images, sounds and words are applied and modified, using genre conventions, to construct media texts • Representations in media texts have specific purposes and are modified to maximise audience impact

Knowledge and understanding: Visual Art Visual Art involves modifying visual arts elements, concepts, processes and forms (both 2D and 3D) to express ideas, considering intended audiences and intended purposes, through images and objects. • Blended, controlled and symbolic colour is used to create depth, representation and symbolism • Descriptive and emotive lines are used to create abstraction, proportion and symbolism • Actual, invented and simulated textures are used to create depth, representation and non-representation