Revised National Curriculum Statement Grades R-9 (Schools) - Grade Two

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 create and presents arts activities based upon ideas drawn from immediate environment.

Assessment standards

We know this when the learner:

• Dance
  • Accurately demonstrates the eight basic locomotor movements (walk, run, skip, hop, leap, jump, gallop, slide), while travelling forward, sideward, backward, diagonally and turning.
  • Recognises and explores opposites found in the immediate environment (e.g. makes large and small shapes, high and low shapes with the body).
  • Learns and performs simple dance steps from dances in the immediate environment.

• Drama
  • Plays at being characters and objects in stories based on local events or told by the teacher.
  • Directed by the teacher, uses themes or topics from the environment in dramatic play.

• Music
  • Demonstrates fundamental pulse and echoes rhythms from the immediate environment using body percussion, instrumental percussion and movement.
  • Sings songs found in the immediate environment.

• Visual Arts
  • Explores the immediate environment using the elementary functions of line, shape, colour and contrast in two-dimensional and three-dimensional work.
  • Identifies and uses patterns found in the immediate environment, using various materials in organised sequences and in combination.

• Composite
  • Responds to stories, games, pictures, poetry and cultural experiences from the immediate environment as stimuli for representation in any art form.

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 reflect on and respond to art and cultural activities in the immediate environment using appropriate terms.

Assessment standards

We will know this when the learner:

• Dance
  • Shares opinions about the place, performers and content of dances the learner has seen.

• Drama
  • Expresses and describes feelings in response to a drama, story or event.
  • Differentiates between different characters in a story and their point of view.

• Music
  • Identifies and sings songs from different situations and talks about them (e.g. working, skipping, game songs).
  • Listens to and responds in movement to walking, running and hopping notes in songs from the immediate environment.

• Visual Arts
  • Discusses and offers opinions on own and others’ artworks, artefacts and crafts found in the immediate environment.

• Composite
  • Describes some features of an event, celebration or festival in the immediate environment.

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 co-operate with others in art and culture activities that focus on the immediate (local) environment.

Assessment standards

We know this when the learner:

• Dance
  • Moves freely and with ease through space both inside and outside, while responding to mutually agreed upon physical, verbal and sound signals.

• Drama
  • Works with a partner in role, and switches roles in teacher-directed dramatic play.
  • Uses events and experiences from own life as a basis for dramatic play.

• Music
  • Echoes a rhythm by body percussion or by playing on a percussion instrument to accompany songs sung together.

• Visual Arts
  • Shows confident involvement in planning collective artworks.

• Composite
  • Listens to and shares different and similar cultural experiences.
  • Displays appropriate audience behaviour while viewing performances and exhibitions.

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, express and communicate ideas and concepts from the immediate environment.

Assessment standards

We know this when the learner:

• Dance
  • Explores movement characteristics of animals, people, machines and nature.

• Drama
  • Imitates everyday activities in simple mime.
  • Uses puppets, animated stones, mealie cobs or other objects in dramatic play to express own ideas and feelings.

• Music
  • Imitates natural and mechanical sounds to create sound effects.

• Visual Arts
  • Explores, experiences and creatively communicates patterns and textures found in the immediate and built environment.

• Composite
  • Talks about what the learner has seen and heard in own environment that has been of significance to self.