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Achievement objectives

Level 1

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Demonstrate an awareness of dance in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore movement with a developing awareness of the dance elements of body, space, time, energy, and relationships.

Developing ideas

  • Improvise and explore movement ideas in response to a variety of stimuli.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share dance movement through informal presentation and share their thoughts and feelings in response to their own and others’ dances.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Demonstrate an awareness that drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore the elements of role, focus, action, tension, time, and space through dramatic play.

Developing ideas

  • Contribute and develop ideas in drama, using personal experience and imagination.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share drama through informal presentation and respond to ways in which drama tells stories and conveys ideas in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore how sound is made, as they listen and respond to the elements of music: beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.

Developing ideas

  • Explore and express sounds and musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination.
  • Explore ways to represent sound and musical ideas.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share music making with others.
  • Respond to live and recorded music.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Share ideas about how and why their own and others’ works are made and their purpose, value, and context.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.

Developing ideas

  • Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others’ objects and images.

Level 2

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Identify and describe dance in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore and identify, through movement, the dance elements of body, space, time, energy, and relationships.

Developing ideas

  • Use the elements of dance in purposeful ways to respond to a variety of stimuli.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share dance movement through informal presentation and identify the use of the elements of dance.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Identify and describe how drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore and use elements of drama for different purposes.

Developing ideas

  • Develop and sustain ideas in drama, based on personal experience and imagination.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share drama through informal presentation and respond to elements of drama in their own and others’ work.

Music - Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore and identify how sound is made and changed, as they listen and respond to the elements of music and structural devices.

Developing ideas

  • Improvise, explore, and express musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination.
  • Explore ways to represent sound and musical ideas.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share music making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques.
  • Respond to live and recorded music.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Share ideas about how and why their own and others’ works are made and their purpose, value, and context.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.

Developing ideas

  • Investigate and develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others’ objects and images.

Level 3 

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Explore and describe dances from a variety of cultures.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Use the dance elements to develop and share their personal movement vocabulary.

Developing ideas

  • Select and combine dance elements in response to a variety of stimuli.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare and share dance movement individually and in pairs or groups.
  • Use the elements of dance to describe dance movements and respond to dances from a variety of cultures.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Investigate the functions and purposes of drama in cultural and historical contexts.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Use techniques and relevant technologies to explore drama elements and conventions.

Developing ideas

  • Initiate and develop ideas with others to create drama.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies combine to create meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Identify and describe the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts.
  • Explore ideas about how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore and identify how sound is made and changed, as they listen and respond to music and apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, and technologies.

Developing ideas

  • Express and shape musical ideas, using musical elements, instruments, and technologies in response to sources of motivation.
  • Represent sound and musical ideas in a variety of ways.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare and present brief performances of music, using performance skills and techniques.
  • Respond to and reflect on live and recorded music.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Investigate the purpose of objects and images from past and present cultures and identify the contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore some art-making conventions, applying knowledge of elements and selected principles through the use of materials and processes.

Developing ideas

  • Develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists’ works.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Describe the ideas their own and others’ objects and images communicate.

Level 4 

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Explore and describe how dance is used for different purposes in a variety of cultures and contexts.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply the dance elements to extend personal movement skills and vocabularies and to explore the vocabularies of others.

Developing ideas

  • Combine and contrast the dance elements to express images, ideas, and feelings in dance, using a variety of choreographic processes.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare and present dance, with an awareness of the performance context.
  • Describe and record how the purpose of selected dances is expressed through the movement.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Investigate the functions, purposes, and technologies of drama in cultural and historical contexts.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Select and use techniques and relevant technologies to develop drama practice.
  • Use conventions to structure drama.

Developing ideas

  • Initiate and refine ideas with others to plan and develop drama.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies create meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Identify and describe the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts.
  • Explore ideas about how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, and technologies through integrating aural, practical, and theoretical skills.

Developing ideas

  • Express, develop, and refine musical ideas, using the elements of music, instruments, and technologies in response to sources of motivation.
  • Represent sound and musical ideas in a variety of ways.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare, rehearse, and present performance of music, using performance skills and techniques.
  • Reflect on the expressive qualities of their own and others’ music, both live and recorded.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Investigate the purpose of objects and images from past and present cultures and identify the contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore and use art-making conventions, applying knowledge of elements and selected principles through the use of materials and processes.

Developing ideas

  • Develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists’ works.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Explore and describe ways in which meanings can be communicated and interpreted in their own and others’ work.

Level 5 

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Compare and contrast dances from a variety of past and present cultures and contexts.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Develop a variety of skills, dance techniques, vocabularies, and movement practices.

Developing ideas

  • Manipulate the elements and explore the use of choreographic devices and structures to organise dance movement.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare, rehearse, and perform dance with an awareness of production technologies.
  • Reflect on and describe how choreography communicates ideas, feelings, moods, and experiences.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Investigate the characteristics, purposes, and function of drama in a range of contexts.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Select and use techniques, conventions, and relevant technologies for specific drama purposes.

Developing ideas

  • Select and refine ideas to develop drama for specific purposes.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Present and respond to drama and describe how drama combines elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies to create structure and meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Compare and contrast the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts.
  • Investigate how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, stylistic conventions, and technologies through integrating aural, practical, and theoretical skills.

Developing ideas

  • Use musical elements, instruments, technologies, and conventions to express, develop, and refine structured compositions and improvisations.
  • Represent compositions and improvisation frameworks, using appropriate conventions.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare, rehearse, and present performances of music, using a range of performance skills and techniques.
  • Reflect on the expressive qualities of their own and others’ music, both live and recorded.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Investigate and consider the relationship between the production of art works and their contexts and influences.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply knowledge of selected conventions from established practice, using appropriate processes and procedures.

Developing ideas

  • Generate, develop, and refine ideas in response to a variety of motivations, including the study of established practice.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Compare and contrast the ways in which ideas and art-making processes are used to communicate meaning in selected objects and images.

Level 6 

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Explore, investigate, and describe the features and backgrounds of a variety of dance genres and styles.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Develop and demonstrate skills in selected dance genres and styles and explore the use of a variety of technologies.

Developing ideas

  • Select and use choreographic devices, structures, processes, and technologies to develop and give form to dance ideas.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare, rehearse, and perform a range of dances and demonstrate an understanding of the performance requirements of the genres and contexts.
  • Describe, explain, and respond to the ways that dance uses elements, devices, structures, performance skills, and production technologies to communicate images, themes, feelings, and moods.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Investigate the forms and purposes of drama in different historical or contemporary contexts, including New Zealand drama.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Select and use techniques, conventions, and technologies in a range of dramatic forms.

Developing ideas

  • Research, evaluate, and refine ideas in a range of dramatic forms to develop drama.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Perform and respond to drama and make critical judgments about how elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies are used to create form and meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Analyse music from a range of sound environments, styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts.
  • Consider and reflect on the influence of music in their own music making and in their lives.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply knowledge of expressive features, stylistic conventions, and technologies through an integration of aural perception and practical and theoretical skills and describe how they are used in a range of music.

Developing ideas

  • Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions using the elements of music, instruments, technologies, and conventions to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.
  • Reflect on composition processes and presentation conventions.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare, rehearse, interpret, and present performances of music individually and collaboratively, using a range of performance skills and techniques.
  • Reflect on the expressive qualities of music and evaluate their own and others’ music, both live and recorded.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Investigate and analyse the relationship between the production of art works and the contexts in which they are made, viewed, and valued.
  • Consider and reflect on the contexts underlying their own and others’ work.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply knowledge of a range of conventions from established practice, using appropriate processes and procedures.

Developing ideas

  • Generate, develop, and clarify ideas, showing some understanding of established practice.
  • Sequence and link ideas systematically as they solve problems in a body of work, using observation and invention with an appropriate selection of materials.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Identify and analyse processes and procedures from established practice that influence ways of communicating meaning.
  • Investigate, analyse, and evaluate ideas and interpret artists’ intentions in art works.

Level 7 

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Investigate and evaluate the effects of individual, social, cultural, and technological influences on the development of a variety of dance genres and styles.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Extend skills in the vocabulary, practices, and technologies of selected dance genres and styles.

Developing ideas

  • Choreograph solo and group dance works, using choreographic processes, devices, structures, and technologies to communicate choreographic intentions.
  • Generate, plan, and record choreographic ideas and processes.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Apply rehearsal and performance skills to a range of dances, using appropriate techniques and expression to communicate specific intentions.
  • Analyse, explain, and discuss aspects of performance and choreography in a range of dance works.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Research the purposes of production, performance, and technologies of drama in a range of contexts, including New Zealand drama.
  • Explore how drama reflects our cultural diversity.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Select and refine the use of techniques, conventions, and technologies in specific dramatic forms.

Developing ideas

  • Research, critically evaluate, and refine ideas to develop drama in specific dramatic forms.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Rehearse and perform works in a range of dramatic forms.
  • Respond to and make critical judgments about rehearsal processes and performances.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Research and analyse music from a range of sound environments, styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts, considering the impact on music making and production.
  • Apply their understandings of the expressive qualities of music from a range of contexts to a consideration of their influence on their own music practices.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply knowledge of expressive features, stylistic conventions, and technologies through an integration of aural perception and practical and theoretical skills and analyse how they are used in a range of music.

Developing ideas

  • Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions and musical arrangements, using technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.
  • Reflect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Prepare, rehearse, present, record, and evaluate sustained performances of music, individually and collaboratively, that demonstrate interpretive understandings.
  • Analyse and evaluate the expressive qualities of music and production processes to inform interpretations of music.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Research and analyse the influences of contexts on the characteristics and production of art works.
  • Research and analyse the influence of relevant contexts on their own work.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply understanding from research into a range of established practice to extend skills for particular art-making purposes, using appropriate processes and procedures in selected fields.
  • Extend skills, in a range of materials, techniques, and technologies.

Developing ideas

  • Generate, analyse, clarify, and extend ideas in a selected field related to established practice.
  • Use a systematic approach to the development of ideas in a body of work.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Research and analyse how art works are constructed and presented to communicate meanings.
  • Use critical analysis to interpret and respond to art works.

Level 8 

Dance

Students will:

Understanding dance in context

  • Investigate, analyse, and discuss the features, history, issues, and development of dance in New Zealand, including the contribution of selected individuals and groups.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Extend and refine skills, practices, and use of technologies in a range of dance genres and styles.

Developing ideas

  • Develop a concept and produce original dance works, using appropriate production technologies to communicate choreographic intentions.
  • Record and critically reflect on the development and resolution of dance ideas.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Select and apply rehearsal processes, performance skills, and production technologies to enhance the communication and expression of dance works.
  • Critically analyse, interpret, and evaluate the artistic features and the communication of ideas in a range of dance works.

Drama

Students will:

Understanding drama in context

  • Research, analyse, and critically evaluate how drama, including New Zealand drama, interprets, records, or challenges social and cultural discourse.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Research, analyse, and integrate elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies in dramatic forms for specific purposes.

Developing ideas

  • Research, critically evaluate, and refine ideas to create original drama work.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Analyse, rehearse, and perform works in a range of dramatic forms, assuming a variety of artistic or technical responsibilities.
  • Reflect on and critically evaluate a wide range of works and performances.

Music – Sound arts

Students will:

Understanding music – Sound arts in context

  • Research, analyse, and evaluate the production and presentation of music works from historical, social, and cultural contexts.
  • Apply their understandings of the expressive qualities of music from a range of contexts to analyse its impact on their own music practices.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Analyse, apply, and evaluate significant expressive features and stylistic conventions and technologies in a range of music, using aural perception and practical and theoretical skills.

Developing ideas

  • Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions and musical arrangements, using secure technical and musical skills and technologies to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.
  • Reflect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Plan, rehearse, present, record, evaluate, and refine performances of music, individually and collaboratively, demonstrating interpretive understandings.
  • Critically analyse and evaluate the expressive qualities of music and production processes in order to refine interpretations of music.

Visual arts

Students will:

Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Use research and analysis to investigate contexts, meanings, intentions, and technological influences related to the making and valuing of art works.
  • Research and analyse contexts relevant to their intentions and to the expression of meanings in their own work.

Developing practical knowledge

  • Apply understanding from broad and deep research into the characteristics and constraints of materials, techniques, technologies, and established conventions in a selected field.
  • Extend and refine skills in a selected field, using appropriate processes and procedures.

Developing ideas

  • Generate, analyse, clarify, and regenerate options in response to selected questions or a proposal in a chosen field.
  • Use a systematic approach, selectively informed by recent and established practice, to develop ideas in a body of work.

Communicating and interpreting

  • Research and analyse selected approaches and theories related to visual arts practice.
  • Critically reflect on, respond to, and evaluate art works.

Published on: 25 Mar 2014


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