Year 6 SyllabusTest
The Arts Scope and SequenceYear 6 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study at least two of the five Arts subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8. It is a requirement that students study a performance subject and a visual subject.
Year Level Description
In Year 6, students are inspired by observation and imagination reflecting on various artwork. They learn to apply their knowledge of the visual elements, selecting appropriate media, materials and technologies to create artwork that communicate ideas, beliefs or viewpoints.
Students examine the messages expressed in artwork and consider how presentation will enhance meaning, aesthetics and audience interpretation.
As they make and respond to artwork, students continue to use visual art terminology to explain the effective use of elements and techniques. Students begin to consider how the artist uses symbolic meaning. They have the opportunity to examine factors that influence artwork from different social, cultural and historical times.
Making
Ideas
Exploration of artwork inspired by observation or imagination from various artists and cultures that use materials and techniques to enhance the artist's belief or viewpoint (ACAVAM114)
Application of visual art elements and selection of materials, media and/or technologies, to communicate an idea, belief or viewpoint (ACAVAM115)
Skills
Development and application of artistic techniques and processes with:
- shape (exaggerated proportions; motifs; fonts)
- colour (colour wheel; tertiary colour)
- line (lines that create an illusion)
- space (focal point and one-point perspective; basic facial proportions; horizontal and vertical symmetry)
- texture (real and simulated)
- value (highlights; shadows; form)
to create artwork (ACAVAM115)
Use of a variety of techniques, art processes and art forms, such as digital imaging, lino printing or stencils to suit purpose (ACAVAM115)
Responding
Appreciation of diverse interpretations/readings of an artwork by different audiences (ACAVAR117)
Personal responses, using visual art terminology, about how visual art elements, techniques and symbolic meaning communicate ideas and messages; and identifying factors that influence artwork from different social, cultural and historical times (ACAVAR117)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students apply their ideas, skills and techniques to making artwork. Their ideas suggest some inspiration from other artists or cultures. Students apply some visual art elements through the selection of relevant materials and some appropriate techniques to convey their ideas. They produce and enhance their finished artwork by manipulating a range of complex shapes, using and manipulating a variety of line types, exploring descriptive, expressive and symbolic use of colour, selecting different types of actual and implied texture, organising space using a range of visual devices, and creating values through mixing and manipulating various media. Students select and use some specific techniques relevant to various art forms.
Students identify that audiences interpret artwork differently. They list some factors that influence artwork from different social, cultural and/or historical times. Students provide examples of how artists use visual art elements and techniques to convey ideas and messages, using some visual art terminology.
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study at least two of the five Arts subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8. It is a requirement that students study a performance subject and a visual subject.
Year Level Description
In Year 6, students are inspired by observation and imagination reflecting on various artwork. They learn to apply their knowledge of the visual elements, selecting appropriate media, materials and technologies to create artwork that communicate ideas, beliefs or viewpoints.
Students examine the messages expressed in artwork and consider how presentation will enhance meaning, aesthetics and audience interpretation.
As they make and respond to artwork, students continue to use visual art terminology to explain the effective use of elements and techniques. Students begin to consider how the artist uses symbolic meaning. They have the opportunity to examine factors that influence artwork from different social, cultural and historical times.