The six-year impression helps wards ascertain shapes and establish comfort zones regarding the arts, the outdoors, new technologies, and social responsibility expected to last their life times. Over this period, they gain active awareness. Their growth is monitored. They investigate arts and associated areas that are expansive and diverse. Their capacity to communicate, to risk, to understand, and to accept and manage letdowns is higher.
Year 1: Getting a foothold
Photography, being creative (quarter ends with exhibition)
Art, drawing tools (quarter ends with publication)
Literature, stories (quarter ends with publication, performance – readings)
Art, wet mediums (quarter ends with exhibition)
Year 2: Strengthening your presence
Music, appreciation (quarter ends with CD presentation of live/studio/MIDI recordings)
Photography, experimental (quarter ends with publication)
Art, digital and mixed media – dry/wet work enhanced using computer technology/developed as photographs (quarter ends with exhibition)
Theatre, writing and performing (quarter ends with play presentation)
Year 3: Becoming expressive
Music, creation (quarter ends with CD publication of live/studio/MIDI recordings)
Art, experimentations (quarter ends with exhibition)
Literature, poetry (quarter ends with publication)
Theatre, acting (quarter ends with play presentation)
Year 4: Becoming expressive
Video documentary, writing, shooting, editing, adding music
(two quarters end with film show)
Art, drawing tools and wet mediums (quarter ends with exhibition)
Music, criticism (quarter ends with CD presentation, created and edited by children)
Year 5: Inherent understanding
Researching art (quarter ends with publication)
Communicating art, web media (quarter ends with content based website)
Communicating art, animation (quarter ends with a short animated film)
Art, extreme (quarter ends with an art show)
Year 6: Revision and reconfiguration
Photography, video, animation (quarter)
Art, drawing, painting, experimenting, extreme art (quarter)
Literature (poetry, stories, plays, researched essays (quarter)