Students can elect to study the following subjects:
- Music
- visual arts
- drama (film and televison).
Music
The aim of the course is to foster an enjoyment of music through listening, composing and performing on one or more instruments.
Students learn about:
- History of music
- music of a culture
- popular music
- keyboard and guitar skills.
Students learn through:
- Performing different musical instruments
- technology
- group performances.
Visual arts
The Visual Arts course encourages student's to work with a range of media to develop artworks that communicate ideas and feelings on a range of themes and issues. It looks at possible meanings of other artist's works and investigates the contribution which artists make to society.
The students learn about:
- Other living things
- printmaking techniques
- places and spaces
- digital photography
- photoshop
- painting techniques
- composition.
The students learn through:
- Practical media such as clay, computer, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design and photography
- excursions.
Drama
The aim of the drama course is:
- To develop the knowledge and skills to be able to make independent films.
- To develop an understanding of how film manipulates audience.
- To develop an understanding of how film changes over time reflecting a changing world.
Students learn about:
- Slapstick comedy
- horror
- sporting films
- junior trop fest film festival
- sound effects
- script writing
- film editing
- introduction to special effects.
Students learn through:
- Movie making and editing
- script writing
- research tasks
- viewing and criticism of film
- drama journal
- sound effects database.