Visual Arts at Nearnung Primary School is informed by the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model and the Victorian Curriculum.

Our Visual Arts program is designed to immerse students in the world of art, encouraging creativity, self-expression, and critical thinking. Guided by the Victorian Curriculum, we offer 60min weekly lessons that aim to cultivate well-rounded artists who can appreciate, create and analyse various forms of art.

Aims

The Visual Arts curriculum aims to develop students’:

• conceptual and perceptual ideas and expressions through design and inquiry processes
• visual arts techniques, materials, processes and technologies
• critical and creative thinking, using visual arts languages, theories and practices to apply aesthetic judgment
• respect for and acknowledgement of the diverse roles, innovations, traditions, histories and cultures of artists, craftspeople, designers, curators, critics and commentators
• respect for visual arts as social and cultural practices, including industry practices
• confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment and a personal aesthetic through engagement with visual arts making, viewing, discussing, analysing, interpreting and evaluating.

Visual Arts - Rationale and Aims - Victorian Curriculum