Visual Arts

Visual Arts at Beaumaris Primary School encompasses art, craft, and design, encouraging students to create visual representations that communicate, challenge, and express ideas as both artists and audience members. Through this discipline, students develop perceptual and conceptual understanding, critical reasoning, and practical skills.

Visual Arts engages students in a journey of discovery, experimentation, and problem-solving related to visual perception and language. Utilising visual techniques, technologies, practices, and processes, students expand their understanding of their world and other worlds. The curriculum supports students in recognising and appreciating visual arts in past and contemporary contexts. This is achieved through exploration and response to various artists and their artworks.

Japanese

Japanese at Beaumaris Primary School is designed to empower students with essential communication skills in Japanese. This educational journey goes beyond language acquisition, emphasising the development of intercultural capabilities and a profound understanding of the interconnectedness between language and culture in effective communication. As a second Language subject equips students with essential communication skills in Japanese, fostering intercultural capability and an understanding of language and culture in communication.

Music

Music at Beaumaris Primary School is designed to enhance their ability to listen, explore sound, and engage with the world independently. They learn to listen, explore rhythm, pitch, dynamics, expression, form, structure, timbre, and texture while experiencing music as both creators and audience members. The curriculum exposes students to music from diverse cultures, times, and locations, with a focus on the local community as the initial learning context.

Physical Education

Physical Education curriculum promotes students’ health, safety, wellbeing, and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts. It offers a contemporary, relevant, challenging, enjoyable, and physically active experiential curriculum. Integral to the curriculum is the acquisition of movement skills, concepts, and strategies, enabling students to participate in a range of physical activities confidently, competently, and creatively across different contexts.