Performing Arts
At Spring Hill Primary School, we have a passion for the Arts. We strive to develop a program that encompasses all aspects of music, drama and dance.
Specialist Arts programs exercise student’s talents and stretch their individuality and creative boundaries. Our aim is to enable students reach their potential by engaging them, inspiring them and enriching them in a creative environment.
In Music, students have access to skills, knowledge and understanding of aural and theory skills, rhythm, tempo, pitch, dynamics, form, timbre and texture. Through these elements, students develop aural, written and performance skills in both making and responding.
Students learn about music appreciation and develop skills in composition and performance.
The Spring Hill PS Choir consists of students in year 3 to 6 who meet weekly and rehearse a variety of repertoire. The Performing Arts Student Leaders take on leadership roles within the Choir. The Choir have the opportunity to perform at assemblies, special occasions and the One Big Voice Festival.
In Drama, students create, rehearse, perform and respond using the elements of role and character, relationships, situation, voice, movement, focus, tension, space, time, language, audience, mood and atmosphere. They are encouraged to use their imagination and creativity to present pieces of work to others by taking on roles that depict real and imagined worlds. Our end of year production highlights the amazing drama program at Spring Hill.
In Dance, students are taught about the elements of body, energy, space and time. They use these skills to follow and create their own choreography through movement.
Extension Program
At Spring Hill we offer an extension program for select year 5 and 6 students to attend weekly lessons to extend their theory and practical skills. Year 6 students are also given the opportunity to take part in writing scripts, choreographing dances, composing music and rehearsing songs for the End of Year Production.
Instrumental Music School Services (IMSS) Program
Through the IMSS program, selected students in year 5 and 6 receive free classical guitar, flute, guitar or brass tuition.
Students attend weekly lessons within school time and are afforded the opportunity to continue the IMSS program in some high schools.
Visual Arts
The Spring Hill Visual Arts Program offers students an insight into the arts through experimenting, exploring and responding to art.
It is diverse for students, incorporating their own personal world and other worlds around them. It encourages all students to engage, inspire and enrich their own learning, along with exciting their imagination and reaching their creative and expressive potential.
In accordance with the SCASA (School Curriculum and Standards Authority) sequence and scope requirements, students will be able to acquire skills in making art and responding to art. Students will learn skills and processes that will lead them to create art, appreciate art, and enjoy art.
Visual Art study encourages problem solving skills and initiative through exploring a wide variety of contexts related to history, culture and our social community. Students will learn the elements and principles of art in order to prepare for deeper understandings of art and will experience engaging and enjoyable art activities.
Physical & Health Education
The Physical Education program aims to expose students to a wide variety of sports and activities. It is designed to help students develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary for confident, lifelong participation in sport and recreation activities and enables students to make responsible decisions about physical activity and to promote their own and others’ health and wellbeing.
Early Years skills include:
- body management skills including balance, stopping, landing, turning, stretching and dodging
- locomotion skills such as walking, running and leaping
- object control skills such as throwing, catching, bouncing, striking and rolling
Middle Years focus on utilizing the skills learnt in the early years in modified game situations. A varied program encourages student’s participation in physical activity and this includes:
- athletics
- team sports
- swimming
- interschool competitions
Digital Technologies
Digital Technologies is a program designed to guide students towards a deeper understanding of digital systems that many use every day and how to avoid and manage risks online. Digital Technologies helps students to collaborate and communicate in an ever flourishing global community in a safe and secure fashion, whilst also expanding on their problem solving skills and to differentiate between reliable, biased and unreliable data in an information age.
Each year group studies age appropriate lessons supported under four main topics:
- Cyber security
- Digital systems
- Data
- Programming
LOTE (Languages other than English)
Students at Spring Hill participate in the Mandarin language program. The LOTE program endeavours to provide students not only with language skills, but also a cultural awareness of the Chinese speaking community, and the skills and knowledge of how to learn a language.
Students explore language structures and cultural similarities and differences between China and Australia through a variety of collaborative tasks. They develop basic conversational skills through role plays, short stories, songs and activities.
Students also learn about the significant celebrations and festivals of China (including Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival) through stories, songs, legends, and poems.