This unit teaches students to explore how dance and music are shaped by people, time and place.

In Dance, students investigate the styles of jive, disco and hip-hop, experimenting with space, time and dynamics to compose, rehearse and perform sequences.

In Music, students investigate rock’n’roll, disco and hip-hop, exploring duration, pitch, texture, timbre, performing media and structure.

Unit 1 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 6.7 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore the natural rhythms of nature through dance and music.

In Dance, they investigate how land and life cycles inspire movement as they create a collaborative movement sequence.

In Music, students explore how sound represents the natural world and seasons.

Unit 2 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 4.8 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how creative works in Drama and Visual Arts can make an audience stop, think, feel and act.

In Drama, students explore puppetry from around the world to learn how characters and stories are brought to life through movement, voice and simple materials.

In Visual Arts, students explore how artists use subject matter, materials and the elements of art and design to represent ideas about their world.

• Unit 3 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 12.6 MB)
• Warm-up videos – Drama K–6 (staff only) to support teaching dramatic elements
• Student performance videos – Drama, Stage 2 (staff only) reflect Drama activities in Stage 2, unit 3

This unit teaches students about the power of the arts to convey ideas and emotions. They explore how artists and performers use the dramatic elements and elements of art and design to communicate ideas and shape meaning.

In Drama, students explore how stories and ideas are communicated through storytelling, readers’ theatre and student-devised drama.

In Visual Arts, students explore how artists use materials, processes, signs and symbols to communicate ideas.

• Unit 4 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 17.4 MB)
• Foam printing video – Visual Arts K–6 (staff only) supports Visual Arts learning in Stage 2, unit 4

This unit teaches students to explore how creative practices are shaped by people, time and place.

In Dance, students compose, rehearse and perform Korean-pop (K-pop) inspired routines that experiment with space, time and dynamics.

In Music, students investigate K-pop features and create accompaniments and original compositions using elements such as pitch, rhythm, timbre and structure.

Unit 5 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 4.4 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how music and dance are all around us, discovering how everyday spaces, objects, bodies and voices can be transformed from nothing to something to create expressive movement and sound.

In Dance, students explore site-specific dance and how anywhere can be a stage.

In Music, students investigate how to create rhythms, melodies and textures.

Unit 6 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 7.1 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how stories and ideas can be communicated without words.

In Drama, students investigate mime traditions from cultural and historical contexts around the world.

In Visual Arts, students create collaborative drawings inspired by historical artforms and experiment with colour and painting techniques.

• Unit 7 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 20.3 MB)
• Warm-up videos – Drama K–6 (staff only) to support teaching dramatic elements
• Student performance videos – Drama, Stage 2 (staff only) reflect Drama activities in Stage 2, unit 7

This unit teaches students to explore how creative works communicate ideas about connection through stories, relationship, culture or place.

In Drama, students explore how stories, relationships and ideas are communicated through storytelling, improvisation, comic performance and student-devised drama.

In Visual Arts, students investigate how artists represent connection through printmaking processes and the 3D artform of weaving.

• Unit 8 – Creative Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 15.2 MB)
• Weaving videos – Visual Arts, Stage 2 (staff only) reflect Visual Arts activities in Stage 2, unit 8