The Arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential.
The five Arts subjects at State High are:
- Dance
- Drama
- Media Arts
- Music
- Visual Art
Contact details for the Heads of Department are listed under Key Personnel.
Subjects offered
The Junior Course Guide and Senior Course Guide provide further information on The Arts subjects and prerequisites.
Arts subjects offered for junior and senior students
Years 7 to 9 | - Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Media Arts (known as Film, Television and New Media in Year 10-12)
- Music extension (Year 9 only)
- Visual Art
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Year 10 | - Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Music extension
- Film Television & New Media
- Visual Art
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Years 11 and 12 | - Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Music Extension
- Film Television & New Media
- Visual Art
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Why study The Arts?
Students learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences. The Arts contribute to the development of confident and creative individuals, nurturing and challenging active and informed citizens.
The Arts explores:
- significant contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Australia’s arts heritage and contemporary arts practices.
- students learn as artists and audience through the intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences of The Arts. They acquire knowledge, skills and understanding specific to The Arts subjects and develop critical understanding that informs decision making and aesthetic choices.
- students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions as they discover and interpret the world. They learn that designing, producing and resolving their work is as essential to learning in The Arts as is creating a finished artwork.
- students develop their Arts knowledge and aesthetic understanding through a growing comprehension of the distinct and related languages, symbols, techniques, processes and skills of The Arts subjects.
- the Arts learning provides students with opportunities to engage with creative industries and arts professionals.
- creatively solve problems and generate ideas.
Learning in the Arts is based on cognitive, affective and sensory/kinaesthetic response to arts’ practices as students revisit increasingly complex content, skills and processes with developing confidence and sophistication across their years of learning.