The Arts - ÌìÃÀ Flinders Anglican College Leading independent co-educational school from Prep to Year 12 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:43:03 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Year 7 Visual Art /subject/year-7-visual-arts/ Wed, 03 May 2023 01:56:41 +0000 /?post_type=subject&p=16516 Read More]]> In Year 7 Art students venture out into the environment and connect with different aspects of our surroundings to inspire their imagination. Through this stimulus a foundation of skills in 2D, 3D and time-based media are explored through an experimental folio. Students consider different perspectives to develop and expand perceptual, conceptual and cultural understanding...

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]]> Year 7 Media Arts /subject/year-7-media-arts/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:33:08 +0000 /subject/year-7-media-arts-2/ Read More]]> Year 7 Media Arts is an introductory unit to film as an art form. Students will have the opportunity be creative in front of and /or behind the camera. Year 7 students engage with media in many different ways. This unit explores how young people engage with media and will allow students to create media for their peers. Concepts such as storytelling, narratives, technical use of cameras and simple...

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]]> Year 9 Music EDGE /subject/year-9-music-edge-program/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:33:02 +0000 /subject/year-9-music-edge-program/ Read More]]> The Year 9 Music EDGE program builds on the knowledge and skills developed in the Year 8 Music EDGE program, and is designed to accelerate students who are refining their musicianship and musicality, and aiming for mastery. Like the Year 8 course, it provides the opportunity to develop and extend these skills in a challenging environment with like-minded students. The course is designed to allow...

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]]> Year 9 Music /subject/year-9-music/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:33:02 +0000 /subject/year-9-music/ Read More]]> In this unit, you will examine the ways in which music can evoke mood and atmosphere, awaken memories and feelings, stir up emotions, and convey characters and ideas. You will investigate how composers use music to support these functions in film, television, and other screen media. You will learn specific compositional techniques and ways in which music elements and concepts can be used and...

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]]> Year 9 Visual Art /subject/year-9-visual-art/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:33:02 +0000 /subject/year-9-visual-art/ Read More]]> What ultimately sets us apart in an ever-changing and fast-paced world is our unique perspective on things. Perspective also helps us to understand situations from other positions, to consider other beliefs, experiences and viewpoints. Through a series of playful, tactile and sensory experiences and experimental works, students find their unique voice as an artist, and consider how to present and...

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]]> Year 9 Drama /subject/year-9-drama/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:33:02 +0000 /subject/year-9-drama/ Read More]]> As society shifts further away from face-to-face interactions in favour of the gratification of our screens and devices, how can actors and live performance play a vital role in reconnecting young people to their social relationships and responsibilities? In this subject, students work as devisors and actors to explore issues relevant to their age group. They learn and strengthen ensemble work...

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]]> Year 9 Media Arts /subject/year-9-media-arts/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:33:02 +0000 /subject/year-9-film-television-new-media/ Read More]]> Subject Description What do Superman, Spiderman and the Flash have in common? They are all superheroes on a quest to make Earth a better place. Superhero films have many things in common like origin stories, secret identities and moral dilemmas. In media, we call these storytelling devices tropes. In Year 9 Media Arts, students will study the concepts of story forms and conventions...

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]]> Year 8 Music /subject/year-8-music/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:32:58 +0000 /subject/year-8-music/ Read More]]> In Year 8 Music, students build their musical vocabulary and musical literacy through experiences in musicology (asking questions of, and analysing and evaluating music), composition and performance. Students explore the ways in 'music works' through formal classroom experiences, and then have the opportunity to work with agency and autonomy to explore this in a context that is familiar to them...

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]]> Year 8 Music EDGE Program /subject/year-8-music-edge-program/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:32:58 +0000 /subject/year-8-music-edge-program/ Read More]]> The Music EDGE program is a selective entry course, designed to accelerate students who are refining their musicianship and musicality and aiming for mastery. It is also an opportunity to develop and extend musical skills and capacities in a challenging environment with like-minded students. The course is designed to allow students to progress at a faster rate than is possible within the core...

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]]> Year 8 Visual Art /subject/year-8-visual-art/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:32:58 +0000 /subject/year-8-visual-art/ Read More]]> Art in the Middle School focuses on guiding students towards an understanding of the Design Process and the Elements and Principles of Art. It provides an intellectually and emotionally stimulating space for ideas to grow, connections to be explored and personal, collective and global experiences to be challenged. Students engage in creative processes and artistic practices to communicate and make...

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