ABLEWA Stage BTest
ABLEWA Stage B
Year Stage Description
In Stage B, students explore music. They listen to and explore sound and how music can represent the world and that they can make music. They share their music with peers and experience music as part of an audiences.
Students learn to listen to music and experience rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture as they explore and make music.
While music in the local community should be the initial focus for learning, students experience and are encouraged to take an interested in music from more distant locations and the curriculum provides opportunities to build on their curiosity.
Stage B Content Descriptions
Explore and Represent Ideas
Explore qualities of sounds and pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement, body percussion and/or instruments (VCAMUE005)
Music Practices
Use voice and/or instruments to copy a chant, song and/or rhyme (VCAMUM006)
Present and Perform
Perform music to express a given idea (VCAMUP007)
Respond and Interpret
Respond to own and others’ music (VCAMUR008)
Achievement standard
By the end Stage B, students make and perform music using voice and/or instruments.
Students communicate responses to music they listen to, create and perform.
Year Stage Description
In Stage B, students explore music. They listen to and explore sound and how music can represent the world and that they can make music. They share their music with peers and experience music as part of an audiences.
Students learn to listen to music and experience rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture as they explore and make music.
While music in the local community should be the initial focus for learning, students experience and are encouraged to take an interested in music from more distant locations and the curriculum provides opportunities to build on their curiosity.