Creative Arts are practised and valued in our complex and diverse society as important outlets for the communication of ideas, feelings and beliefs and as major sources of intellectual, physical, spiritual and emotional development, understanding and enjoyment. Comprehensive and sequential learning experiences in Creative Arts during schooling provide individuals with necessary skills, understandings and confidence to participate fully in the Arts throughout their lives.
Through a Creative Arts program students:
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develop their intellectual, imaginative and expressive potential
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develop skills, techniques and a knowledge of processes as a basis for personal expression
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create, perform or present art works
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develop critical skills and an understanding of aesthetics
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develop understanding of how the arts evolve within social, cultural and historical contexts
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enjoy participating in the processes of creating, presenting and responding to the arts.