Visual Arts Life Skills Stage 6 (2009)
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The new Visual Arts Life Skills 11–12 draft syllabus is available for consultation, as part of the NSW Curriculum Reform.
About the course
The Visual Arts Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to investigate different ideas and interests that can be represented in 2D, 3D and 4D artworks. Students develop sensory, tactile, manipulative and technical skills while recognising the importance of how meaning is represented in their own artworks as well as the works of other artists.
Study of the Visual Arts Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ appreciation of Visual Arts, their quality and enjoyment of life, and assist them to prepare for various post-school opportunities.
The structure of the Visual Arts Life Skills course allows teachers to provide a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of individual students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. Students may study selected outcomes and content within the course.
Study of the Visual Arts Life Skills course involves:
- representing a point of view and interpretations of the world in artmaking
- critical and historical studies of the visual arts
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16658 Visual Arts Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
- 16658 Visual Arts Life Skills (2 units – HSC)
Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.
Eligibility: Life Skills Eligibility
Study via self-tuition: No
Exclusions:
- 11380 Visual Arts (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15400 Visual Arts (2 units – HSC)
- 16650 Creative Arts Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Visual Arts is undertaken within the course)
- 16650 Creative Arts Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Visual Arts is undertaken within the course)
On entering students for the Visual Arts Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.
Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the Visual Arts Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.
The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.
Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:
What are Life Skills courses
All students are entitled to participate in and progress through the curriculum. Life Skills courses provide course options for students with intellectual disability or imputed intellectual disability in Years 11–12 who cannot access related general education courses.
Students with disability can access syllabus outcomes and content in a range of ways, including through a range of adjustments to teaching, learning and assessment activities. Decisions regarding curriculum options should be made in the context of collaborative curriculum planning.
Assessment support and advice
Teaching and learning support
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.
Visual Arts Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes worksheet (DOCX 19.54KB)
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.