This unit teaches students to use dance and music for creative expression and storytelling.

In Dance, students explore traditional African dances and use space and time to improvise movement inspired by living things.

In Music, students create soundscapes and performances inspired by African songs and animals, focusing on duration, pitch, timbre and structure.

Unit 1 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 13.3 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how people use movement and sound to celebrate, connect and communicate.

In Dance, students compose and perform dances inspired by festivals, cultural traditions and community events.

In Music, students perform, compose, and notate music inspired by celebrations.

Unit 2 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 7.7 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how characters and stories are shaped through art and performance.

In Drama, students explore cultural influences on circus traditions from around the world and reflect on how drama communicates ideas, experiences and stories.

In Visual Arts, students explore artists and artworks from cultural and historical contexts and use the elements of art and design to make artworks.

• Unit 3 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 5.7 MB)
• Warm-up videos – Drama K–6 (staff only) to support teaching dramatic elements
• Student performance videos – Drama, Stage 1 (staff only) reflect Drama activities in Stage 1, unit 3

This unit teaches students to explore how artists and performers can reimagine and represent ideas, subject matter or stories, experimenting with creative possibilities through Drama and Visual Arts.

In Drama, students explore how imagination can be used to reimagine objects, characters, settings and stories through performance.

In Visual Arts, students explore how artists represent ideas about the ocean environment through artmaking.

Unit 4 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 15.7 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how dance and music can communicate ideas and stories through movement and sound. Students investigate Bollywood dance and music inspired by Japanese and Norwegian folk tales, using the elements of dance and music to create and perform their own storytelling pieces.

Unit 5 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 5.1 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how our stories are told through dance and music.

In Dance, students learn that movement can communicate stories of connection, place and culture.

In Music, students learn that composers and performers use the elements of music to communicate personal and cultural stories.

Unit 6 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 6.3 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how stories and ideas are communicated through drama and visual arts.

In Drama, students explore how stories can be communicated through drama by using familiar and reimagined fairytales.

In Visual arts, students explore ancient and historical artworks, including Chinese woodblock printing, Indian Rangoli and Mandala.

• Unit 7 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 10.2 MB)
• Warm-up videos – Drama K–6 (staff only) to support teaching dramatic elements
• Student performance videos – Drama, Stage 1 (staff only) reflect Drama activities in Stage 1, unit 7

This unit teaches students to explore how the seasons can inspire artistic expression.

In Drama, students use movement and physical expression to communicate ideas about people, animals, environments and seasonal change.

In Visual Arts, students explore how artists create sculptural forms, to represent ideas about seasonal change, environments and personal experiences.

Unit 8 – Creative Arts, Stage 1 (staff only) (DOCX 18.2 MB)