Revised National Curriculum Statement Grades R-9 (Schools) - Grade Three
Learning Area: Arts and Culture
Learning Outcome 1: Creating, Interpreting and Presenting
The learner will be able to create, interpret and present work in each of the art forms.
Organising principle: The learner will be able to develop skills and knowledge to express ideas, feeling and moods through creating and presenting artworks.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Dance
- In preparing the body, shows the ability to maintain good posture when sitting and standing.
- Lands softly and safely from jumps, hops and leaps by articulating (toe-heel-bend) the feet and bending the knees.
- Explores a variety of movements, opposites and contexts to compose movement sentences.
- Drama
- Performs simple relaxation exercises for warming up and cooling down.
- Uses skills of observation, imitation and exaggeration to create character and mood in dramatic play and exercises.
- Music
- Demonstrates the difference between running notes, walking notes, skipping notes, and ascending and descending order of notes.
- Sings songs and makes music to express a variety of ideas, feelings and moods.
- Visual Arts
- Creates artworks which demonstrate the translation of own ideas, feelings and perceptions into two-dimensional and three-dimensional work using appropriate and available materials, with a focus on:
- line, tone, texture, spatial arrangement, contrast, composition;
- mixing of primary and secondary colours.
- Shares and displays work.
- Creates artworks which demonstrate the translation of own ideas, feelings and perceptions into two-dimensional and three-dimensional work using appropriate and available materials, with a focus on:
Learning Outcome 2: Reflecting
The learner will be able to reflect critically and creatively on artistic and cultural processes, products and styles in past and present contexts.
Organising principle: The learner will be able to recognise and reflect on art processes and how artworks express and suggest ideas, feelings and moods.
Assessment standards
We will know this when the learner:
- Dance
- Identifies how feelings and moods are expressed through the body and face, the use of energy and the choice of movement.
- Drama
- Talks about what the learner likes or does not like about dramas, advertisements, radio programmes, videos or films.
- Talks about stories and dramas seen or heard and makes connections with familiar situations.
- Music
- Explains how tempo, duration and dynamics have been used in songs and music to express feelings and moods.
- Listens to and graphically represents walking, running and hopping notes in terms of low, middle and high pitch.
- Visual Arts
- Uses basic art terminology to explain how content, line, colour and shape are used to express feelings and moods in compositions.
Learning Outcome 3: Participating and Collaborating
The learner will be able to demonstrate personal and interpersonal skills through individual and group participation in Arts and Culture activities.
Organising principle: The learner will be able to participate and collaborate in art and culture activities, acknowledging feelings, mood and choices.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Dance
- Explores, selects and links movements that express feelings and moods into movement sentences to contribute towards a class dance.
- Drama
- Works with others when exploring situations in role.
- Participates in drama exercises based on listening, responding, initiating or concentrating.
- Music
- Sings songs, rounds and canons in a choir to express feelings and moods.
- Walks, runs, skips and sways to the pulse of the songs fellow learners are singing and the music they are listening to.
- Visual Arts
- Identifies and plans collective artwork which shows problem solving, negotiation of conflict and enjoyment.
- Composite
- Works alone and with a partner, respecting feelings of others.
Learning Outcome 4: Expressing and Communicating
The learner will be able to analyse and use multiple forms of communication and expression in Arts and Culture.
Organising principle: The learner will be able to explore and express sensory perception to communicate and interpret ideas, feelings and moods.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Dance
- Uses different ways of moving to express the same ideas, feelings or moods.
- Interprets images, sounds, and textures through movement.
- Drama
- Uses the voice, gesture and body shape to express feelings and thoughts.
- Participates in drama exercises that focus on sensory perception and association.
- Music
- Uses tempo, repetition and dynamics to create mood and evoke feelings through music.
- Visual Arts
- Experiments with colour, line, texture, tone, shape and space in various media in two dimensions and three dimensions, to express mood, feelings and ideas.