Whangarei Girls’ High School Whangarei Girls’ High School

Year 9 Performing Arts

9PFA
Course Description

In this course students will:

SHARE SKILLS through:

  • Recognising one they have

  • Teaching it to others in the class

  • Learning new skills from their peers. 

CREATE a performance based around a chosen theme connected to their lives, incorporating theatre, dance, music and an element of visual art. 

PRESENT their performance to an invited audience at the end of the course.


Learning Opportunities

In this course you will need to:

Develop these skills:Explore this content:
  • Team work 
  • The use of voice as an instrument of expression and its connection to thought, physical feeling and emotion.
  • Communication
  • Their physical awareness body and its potential as an instrument of expression and communication.
  • Collaboration
  • Character - What makes a person who they are and how we represent ourselves through voice, body and movement. 
  • Resilience
  • The links between sound, movement and thought.
  • Literary skills (writing and research)
  • The creation of dance choreography through everyday movements and actions.
  • The application of effort, focus, self-motivation required by all performing arts disciplines.
  • The creation of song through the everyday words, phrases and sounds they make.

  • The creation of art through the montage of everyday objects and the attachments they have to them.


Year Levels/Departments:

Year 9, Performing Arts




			
					
					Resources Required
										
Folder or A4 book

PE gear

Work shirt, pants or overalls