The Arts

The Arts with its open-ended and diverse range of activities should be integrated through all Key Learning Areas to enhance and enrich student learning.  Learning experiences can constantly be adjusted to meet the abilities, needs and interests of learners and to assist in achieving the desired education outcomes.  Proserpine State School is committed to promoting the arts within our school and wider community by providing learning experiences which cater for all students.

One of the main objectives  is to ensure students are learning in, about and through The Arts.  Active engagement in and reflecting upon arts-making practices is an important focus.  We believe that in learning through The Arts, students will engage in a wide range of multiliteracies which will improve literacy learning and equip students to become life-long learners.

We believe that learning through The Arts can provide a common thread which can be woven through and create ties to Key Learning Areas, multiliteracies and pedagogy in a multi-age setting.  We aim to use The Arts as a springboard to create units which are derived derived from our three curriculum organisers as well as real-life and purposeful experiences.

The Years 1 to 10 The Arts key learning area encompasses those artistic pursuits that express and communicate what it is to be human through Dance, Drama, Media, Music and Visual Arts.  Through these five distinct and separate disciplines, we develop, share and pass on understandings of ourselves, out histories, our cultures and our worlds to future generations.  The arts, separately and collectively, can balance and enrich student experience by fostering unique and significant skills and understandings.  These are transferable to other areas of learning.

At Proserpine State School our Arts syllabus aligns with the QSA Essential Learnings Documents.

By the end of Year 3

By the end of Year 5

By the end of Year 7

Music

Classroom music lessons are given to all classes in the school from Pre and Prep to year 7 for either 30 or 45 minutes per week. During these lessons the children learn to aurally and visually recognise and respond to music, sing and play a varied repertoire of music and read and write music.

Students from Yr 2 to Yr 7 have the opportunity to sing in a choir if they wish. There is a Yr2/3 , Yr 4/5 and Yr 6/7 choir and a combined senior choir for Yr4 – 7. The different choirs perform at school and community events such as ANZAC parade and the Uniting Church Flower Show and are entered in the Mackay Eisteddfod where they usually place very well.