The Arts

A range of Arts programs are offered to the students at Bell Primary School.  Specialist teachers present the Visual Arts and Music Programs. Private lessons in keyboard and guitar, are also offered during school hours.  Dance and Drama are taught by classroom teachers or on occasions as special units where outside expertise is sought.

 The general school environment indicates the vibrancy of the visual arts program from the Indigenous rebound wall, the painted tile column, the great patchwork quilt in the library and the outside murals scattered around the walls of the building.

 In the Visual Arts Program, students interpret, respond to, observe and experience visual forms. They develop knowledge and skills in a broad range of art forms and mediums, including construction, collage, computer generated/digital design, drawing, film, modelling, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, threads and textiles and various crafts. Art works can be two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Students analyse their own art works and those of others, including works from past and present contexts. The Media program is predominately studied under the umbrella of other key learning areas, in particular, English and Information Technology. In the area of Media, students use words, images and sounds singly or in combination to produce representations of real and imagined experiences. Students develop skills in such media forms as radio, film, print, computer technology and photography.

The love of music at Bell can be seen in the weekly assembly performances, various musical groups, and the role of music in the school production.  Music is essentially composed sound that has both an expressive and communicative purpose. Students use musical instruments, voices, objects and electronic sources, and techniques and processes, to improvise, compose and perform. In addition to involvement in their own music, students experience and evaluate a range of familiar and unfamiliar music from different styles, genres, times and cultures. The music program recognises instrumental and vocal music programs as specialist components of music education.

Dance is the exploration of the language of movement, using the body as an instrument of expression. Students gain the skills of shaping and presenting work for a variety of purposes. Students analyse their own and others’ dances, including works from different contexts and cultures.