St Therese’s Creative Arts program aims to provide an engaging and stimulating environment, which will nurture the student’s love of The Arts: both Drama and Visual Art, as well as their curiosity in learning about and contributing to the world around them.
The Drama program involves various experiences in kinesthetic awareness, communication skills and collaboration. Drama skills developed during these sessions across the year levels include: utilising movement and body language, using facial expression to show emotions, tableaux/freeze frame, using tension to build excitement in a dramatic performance, using voice to portray a character and express emotions, using space effectively and safely (spatial awareness), using dialogue to connect characters and tell a story and about characterisation (choices about how a character is played). We also view and respond to live or filmed performances using drama terminology.
The Visual Art program includes creating and making visual art projects whilst learning skills, techniques and processes with various mediums. Students explore Line, Colour, Shape, Form, Texture and Pattern. Visual Art concepts developed during these lessons across the year levels involves: exploring visual arts practices as inspiration to create artworks that express different ideas and beliefs, exploring visual approaches to art and use materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks, and exploring different ways of displaying artworks to enhance their meaning for an audience.
Students in Year 5 and 6 also have the opportunity to be an arts leader for the younger classes. This role is fantastic for building leadership, confidence and Arts skills for the seniors, it also provides strong role models in Creative Arts and benefits the social and emotional learning of our junior students.
Art gives us meaning and helps us understand our world. Scientific studies have proven that art appreciation improves our quality of life and makes us feel good. When we create art, we elevate our mood, we improve our ability to problem solve, and open our minds to new ideas. Creative Arts encourages self-expression and creativity and can build confidence as well as a sense of individual identity.