School name:	Years X–X band plan — Australian Curriculum: The Arts Overview for planning with the Australian Curriculum: The Arts

Instructions to writers

How to use this template: This template is flexible. You can personalise the template to plan teaching and learning programs for Australian Curriculum: The Arts (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/the-arts/the-arts-across-foundation-to-year-10) for your school.

Page 1 provides a map of coverage of Arts subjects.

Select the Arts subject using the dropdown menus for each phase. Include any additional information in each term’s space next to the dropdown menu (e.g. an additional Arts or other subject). Delete bands as necessary. Insert a row to add an extra Arts subject or information within a band. Copy and paste a dropdown menu into the new row if required.

Page 2 provides the details for each year level or Arts subject.

Duplicate the table on page 2 for each year level/Arts subject on this page. Personalise these tables with planning information for the teaching and learning programs mapped on page 1.

Once the form is complete, delete these Instructions to writers.

Planning learning in The Arts	The Arts curriculum is based on the principle that all children will study the five Arts subjects across Prep Year to Year 2.
Prep Year–Year 2 band	Year level	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Prep Year	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:
Year 1	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:
Year 2	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:

Planning learning in The Arts	The Arts curriculum is based on the principle that all students will study the five Arts subjects across Years 3 and 4.
Years 3–4 band	Year level	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Year 3	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:
Year 4	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:

Planning learning in The Arts	The Arts curriculum is based on the principle that all students will study the five Arts subjects across Years 5 and 6.
Years 5–6 band	Year level	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Year 5	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:
Year 6	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:

Planning learning in The Arts	The Arts curriculum is based on the principle that students will have the opportunity to experience one or more of the five Arts subjects in depth across Years 7 and 8.
Years 7–8 band	Year level	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Year 7	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:
Year 8	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:

Planning learning in The Arts	The Arts curriculum is based on the principle that students will be able to specialise in one or more of the five Arts subjects across Years 9 and 10.
Years 9–10 band	Year level	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
Year 9	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:
Year 10	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:	Choose an Arts subject:

Duplicate this table for each year level/Arts subject mapped on page 1. Once complete, delete these Instructions to writers.

School name:
Australian Curriculum: The Arts Band/Year: Choose a band/year: Arts subject: Choose an Arts subject:
Identify curriculum	Course organisation	The Arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. In the Australian Curriculum, the Arts is a learning area that draws together related but distinct art forms. While these art forms have close relationships and are often used in interrelated ways, each involves different approaches to arts practices and critical and creative thinking that reflect distinct bodies of knowledge, understanding and skills. The curriculum examines past, current and emerging arts practices in each art form across a range of cultures and places. The Australian Curriculum: The Arts covers each of the five Arts subjects – Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts – across bands of year levels: Foundation to Year 2 Years 3 and 4 Years 5 and 6 Years 7 and 8 Years 9 and 10. Each subject focuses on its own practices, terminology and unique ways of looking at the world. Together they provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences. Content descriptions in each Arts subject reflect the interrelated strands of Making and Responding. Making includes learning about and using knowledge, skills, techniques, processes, materials and technologies to explore arts practices and make artworks that communicate ideas and intentions. Responding includes exploring, responding to, analysing and interpreting artworks. In the Arts, students learn as artists and audience through the intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences of the Arts. They acquire knowledge, skills and understanding specific to the Arts subjects and develop critical understanding that informs decision making and aesthetic choices. Through the Arts, students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions as they discover and interpret the world.
Phase curriculum focus	Insert phase curriculum focus for the phase of learning that is identified in the organisation of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
Band description	Insert the relevant band description from the Australian Curriculum: The Arts.
Achievement standard	Insert the relevant achievement standard from the Australian Curriculum: The Arts.
Content descriptions	Insert the content descriptions for the unit. It is expected that all content descriptions will be covered across each band.	Insert the content descriptions for the unit. It is expected that all content descriptions will be covered across each band.
Teaching and learning	Viewpoints	The Australian Curriculum: The Arts outlines a range of viewpoints — a collection of perspectives, lenses or frames through which artworks can be explored and interpreted. These perspectives, lenses and frames include the contexts, knowledge and evaluations students consider when both making and responding to artworks. Identify key questions that will shape the teaching and learning for Years X and X that focus on: ● context as artist and audience ● knowledge as artist and audience ● evaluation as artist and audience.
Unit overview Note: If only one unit is offered, merge cells to the right, or split into more columns for more units.	Outline the curriculum focus for the unit. Refer to how the interrelated strands of making and responding, viewpoints and the knowledge and skills of the arts subject will be addressed. Include links to other arts subjects and learning areas as relevant. If only one unit is taught, it is important to embed the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures because of the strong presence across all bands and arts subjects.	Outline the curriculum focus for the unit. Refer to how the interrelated strands of making and responding, viewpoints and the knowledge and skills of the arts subject will be addressed. Include links to other arts subjects and learning areas as relevant.
General capabilities	Delete the icon for any general capabilities that are not included in the unit: Literacy Numeracy ICT capability Critical and creative thinking Personal and social capability Ethical understanding Intercultural understanding
Crosscurriculum priorities	Delete the icon for any cross-curriculum priorities that are not included in the unit: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
Develop assessment	Assessment Note: If only one unit is offered, merge cells to the right, or split into more columns for more units.	Identify how evidence of learning will be gathered.	Identify how evidence of learning will be gathered.
Make judgments and use feedback	Consistency of teacher judgments	Identify opportunities to moderate samples of students’ work at a school or cluster level to reach consensus and establish consistency.	Identify opportunities to moderate samples of students’ work at a school or cluster level to reach consensus and establish consistency.

Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), Australian Curriculum: The Arts: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/the-arts/curriculum/f-10?layout=1.

Prep Year in Queensland is the Foundation Year of the Australian Curriculum and refers to the year before Year 1. Children beginning Prep in January are required to be five years of age by 30 June.