The Arts
The Arts provide students with opportunities to explore creativity, express ideas, and develop confidence through a range of artistic experiences.
Through Visual Art, Music, Drama, and Media, students develop creative and critical thinking skills while learning to communicate, collaborate, and engage with diverse perspectives and cultures.
The Arts encourage imagination, innovation, and self-expression, supporting students to develop skills that are valuable across a wide range of future pathways.
Learning in The Arts Includes
Creative exploration and self-expression
Critical and reflective thinking
Collaboration and communication
Cultural understanding and appreciation
Innovation and creative problem-solving
Pathways and Opportunities
Students can continue their creative journey in senior school through Visual Arts, Drama, Media, and Certificate II in Creative Industries.
Music
Performance, instrumental skills, songwriting, and music production.
Drama
Students explore the art of performance in a practical and enjoyable course, using team work, imagination, creativity, innovation and originality. The course looks at ways of presenting ideas, characterisation, storytelling in different forms and play building. They will be involved in workshops and excursions both on and off the College site.
Music
The music program develops students’ performance skills, instrumental and critical thinking skills. Responding to everyday culture and human experiences. Students participate in African Drumming, Ukulele, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Piano, Percussion, and electronic music production. These experiences assist students to appreciate the varied forms music practices can have and explore their own dynamic abilities in responding to musical forms of other times, places, culture, and contexts.
Dance
Dance embodies our ideas, thoughts, emotions and values and provides a unique opportunity to develop physically, creatively, aesthetically, emotionally and intellectually. This course will offer students the opportunity to explore movement and learn dance skills, techniques and safety principles appropriate to a range of dance genres. Students will also understand the social value and functions of dance and be involved in workshops and excursions both on and off the College site including involvement in YOH Fest.
Visual Arts
Students in Visual art courses will have the opportunity to gain experience and enhance their artistic skills through drawing, painting, and sculpture. They will delve into the elements and principles of art and design, focusing on the natural world, still life, and architecture. Through experimentation with various mediums, students can express their creativity and develop fundamental skills in drawing and designing for portraits and landscapes. Individual projects involving printmaking, painting, ceramics, and sculpture will allow students to highlight their artistic abilities. Additionally, they will engage in written analysis and research tasks to deepen their understanding of art elements and principles, while also exploring new techniques, materials, and mediums to express imaginative and personal ideas across different art forms such as portraiture, landscape, and abstract art.
Art
Art introduces students to a range of materials, skills and techniques and provides opportunities for imaginative exploration, development and communication of ideas. Students will explore issues that are important and relevant to them, and will have the opportunity to exhibit their work in school exhibitions and also at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre throughout the year. The course will prepare students for further studies in the areas of Art and Visual Communication Design.
Media
We offer a diverse range of courses to unlock your creative potential and prepare you for a career in media and communication.
Our experienced Arts department, provide personalised instruction and mentorship. Join us to unlock your creative potential in film production, audio production, photo and image editing, audience construction, 3D modelling, and game design.