Findon Primary School offers fantastic opportunities for each individual student to explore and develop skills in all areas of the Arts.
Performing Arts
The extensive Performing Arts programme offers students the chance to develop a talent in a positive environment led by dedicated staff, alongside fellow students and in front of audiences.
Through implementation of the Victorian Curriculum, Findon Primary School offers fantastic opportunities for students to explore and develop skills in Music, Drama and Dance and allow for creativity, divergent thinking, expression, enjoyment and performance.
Performing Arts enable students to develop their capacities by learning about practices, disciplines and traditions that have shaped the expression of culture locally, nationally and globally. Performing Arts learning promotes enjoyment, engagement, skill and language development, and understanding. Students learn through a range of activities, songs and dances, using voice, movement, technology, props and costumes, body percussion and instruments. The program contributes to the development of confident and creative individuals that can carry on these skills to many other aspects of life and learning.
Music
Across their primary years, students explore rhythm, pitch, texture, tone colour, dynamics and melody. Singing is also a major element, with students learning songs to encourage oral language, confidence and musicianship. School choir and instrument opportunities are also available.
Dance
Allows students to develop and explore dance as an expressive art form through a variety of styles. Students explore creative movement, dance skills, learn choreographed dances and move expressively to different musical styles, with increasing levels of technicality. Taking part in a range of workshops, rehearsals and performances throughout the year.
Drama
Students imagine and participate in the exploration of existing or written scripts, drama games and activities, both individually and collaboratively. Students actively use body, gesture, movement, voice and language, taking on roles to explore and depict real and imagined worlds. When learning about drama, students create, rehearse, perform and respond accordingly.
Production
Biennially, Findon Primary School holds a Whole School Production, which they pride themselves upon. Skills learned in music, drama and dance combine in one of the school’s most popular activities: the production. Productions give budding actors and dancers the chance to take part in large scale, high quality performance whether in a lead position, as part of the chorus or in the backstage team.
Throughout the production year, every student has the opportunity to perform individually, in small groups or as a whole class. The production encompasses all areas of the Arts giving students multiple learning possibilities and the experience of performing.
Visual and Media Arts
Visual and Media Arts are also a feature at Findon Primary School.
Visual and Media Art programs provide students with opportunities to develop conceptual thinking and problem solving skills within a range of experiences and mediums, including digital learning. Creativity, imagination, self expression and experimentation are promoted in a supportive and inclusive environment. Art appreciation, through discussion and inspiration of local and global artists is an important element of the program.
Visual Arts
Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with and develop knowledge of visual arts, skills, techniques and processes, and use a variety of materials and mediums, as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts.
Media Arts
In Media Arts students engage with communications technologies and cross-disciplinary art forms to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio, screen-based or hybrid artworks. Students explore, view, analyse and participate in media culture from a choice of viewpoints and contexts. They acquire the knowledge and skills to work in a variety of media forms and styles.
Extension Art Club – The Artistic Foxes
Upper year students are welcome each year to apply to be a part of the Findon Art Extension Club, ‘The Artistic Foxes’. Focusing on furthering the skills and talents of promising artists, this program gives multiple learning opportunities through tailored lessons and activities. Students also participate in group projects, showcasing their artistic abilities around the school through murals and displays.
The Arts Festival
Biennially, on the alternate year to Production, Findon Primary School hosts an Arts Festival, where students have the opportunity to showcase and celebrate ‘The Arts’ to the community. The highlight being a very impressive gallery filled with every students artwork and creations throughout the year. There are also rides, activities, food and fun to be had by all that attend.
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”- Albert Einstein