Essential Skills
Communication:

• Become competent in using new information and communication technologies
• Develop skills of discrimination and critical analysis in relation to the media, and to aural and visual messages from other sources.

Problem solving:

• Exercise imagination, initiative and flexibility
• Analyse problems from a variety of different perspectives
• Make connections and establish relationships
• Inquire, research and explore, generate and develop ideas.

Work and Study:

• Build on own learning experiences, cultural backgrounds and preferred learning styles
• Work effectively, both independently and in groups.

Achievement Objectives Use a range of structures to give form to dance ideas Use elements and conventions of drama to develop, extend and communicate ideas Use the elements of music, and music structures to compose music Use established art-making conventions to initiate and develop ideas Combine different elements and conventions of dance, drama, music and visual art in a variety of ways Prepare, rehearse, present and evaluate an event using the performing arts - dance, drama and music Investigate the functions of dance, drama, music and visual art in past and present cultures.

Specific Learning Outcomes
Students will:

• Compose photographic images and use for developing a sequence of freeze frames
• Use word ideas from stories to make into song lyrics
• Retell a story using dance
• Invent a music soundtrack for a drama sequence
• Invent a music soundtrack for your own choreographed dance sequence
• Make a composed picture inspired by a song
• Continue making more frames of a storyboard based on your film sequence
• Develop ideas in a project that combines three disciplines
• Develop ideas in a project that combines four disciplines
• Make a folder or a notebook for ideas about ways the different arts disciplines cross over and work successfully together.