The Creative & Performing Arts Faculty at Hoxton Park High School delivers the subjects of Visual Arts, Music, Photographic and Digital Media, Creative Design, Performing Arts and Drama.
The Creative & Performing Arts cater for all students, providing them with sound, interesting learning experiences that will empower and enable them to achieve to the very best of their ability, developing the skills to become lifelong learners and make positive contributions to society. Our unique and engaging critical and creative learning experiences provide an avenue to achieving strong academic and personal outcomes.
Creative Arts
Visual Arts is a valuable component of the Creative Arts Key Learning Area, providing our students with rich experiences within exciting subjects such as Visual Arts, Photographic and Digital Media & Creative Design.
Within our subjects, you have the opportunity to experience Visual Art forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, digital photography, graphic design, digital imaging and digital video.
In our faculty, we believe that our students are capable of great things. We aim to provide the structure and opportunity for these students to excel in the arts, develop themselves innovatively in the process and contribute to their school and community now and in the future.
Visual Arts students are students who can be challenged. They are students who think creatively and solve problems, are equipped for a variety of tasks and work with independence and initiative.
In the HSC Visual Art course students create artworks about their own ideas and from a media of their choosing.
Performing Arts
The Performing Arts encompass learning experiences in Music, Performing Arts and Drama. The Music faculty is an enthusiastic faculty that offers exciting and motivating opportunities within the classroom as well as within the school community. We enrich students with music theory and provide opportunities to develop performance and composition skills within the classroom. Opportunities also arise for students to practise their performance and composition skills in live music situations.
Students also engage in the Performing Arts and Drama courses offer young people an opportunity to develop knowledge, understanding and skills individually and collaboratively to make, perform and appreciate dramatic and theatrical works. Students devise and enact dramas and performances using scripted and unscripted material and use acting and performance techniques to convey meaning to an audience.
Each art form has its own unique knowledge and skills, elements or concepts as well as a capacity to inspire and enrich lives.
Students must study 100 hours of both music and visual arts during Years 7 to 10. They also have an opportunity to further develop their knowledge and skills in other art forms through elective subjects. Students can then select from a range of courses in Years 11 to 12.
Staff
Mrs L Graoroska Head Teacher CAPA/LOTE (Visual Arts, Photography, Ceramics)
Mrs G Beck 2IC, Head Teacher Business Administration (Music)
Mr S Hanly Classroom Teacher, Website Author (Visual Arts, Photography)
Mrs A Winnall Year 7 Year Advisor, Classroom Teacher (Music, Performing Arts)
Subjects on offer
Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6
Yr 7 & Yr 8 Yr 9 & Yr 10 Yr 11 & Yr 12
Visual Arts Visual Arts Visual Arts (ATAR)
Music Music Music 1 (ATAR)
Performing Arts Performing Arts Drama (ATAR)
Photographic & Digital Media
What students will learn
Stage 4
Visual Arts Music Performing Arts
Stage 5
Visual Arts Music Performing Arts
Creative Design Photographic & Digital Media
Stage 6
Co-Curricular Activities
Students have opportunities to engage in extra-curricular activities to enhance their Creative and Performing Arts capabilities. These include:
· Performing Arts classes with Professional Choreographer
· In Concert – Town Hall (A dazzling choral and instrumental music showcase.)
· Schools Spectacular Auditions (Dance and Choir)
· Choral Ensemble
· Dance Ensemble
· Showcase Night Performance
· HSC Music Recital Night
· Art Club
· Perspectives Exhibition at Western Sydney University
· Arts in Action Visual Arts Camp NSW DoE
· Various Art, Photography and Design Competitions
· Excursions to Art Gallery of NSW, Schools Spectacular, HSC study days, Performance incursions
Facilities
The Performing Arts classrooms feature a Dance/Drama space, Music theory room and a Music Practical room equipped with keyboards, ukuleles, guitars, bass guitars, drum kits and other instruments. Students have access to class sets of laptops for research and digital software where students engage in an online music studio to record their own creations and have access to an extensive collection of beats, loops and instruments.
The Creative Arts classrooms feature art rooms that function as art studio spaces to facilitate artmaking and are equipped with printing presses, lighting equipment, green screens, a ceramics kiln and professional digital SLR cameras. Students have access to class sets of laptops for research and digital software, namely the adobe creative suite where students engage in learning opportunities using a range of programs including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premiere.
Fees
Year 7 Visual Arts $ 25.00
Year 8 Visual Arts $ 25.00
Year 9 Visual Arts $ 40.00
Photographic & Digital Media (PDM) $ 25.00
Year 10 Visual Arts $ 40.00
Photographic & Digital Media (PDM) $ 25.00
Years 11 Visual Arts $ 50.00
Years 12 Visual Arts $ 20.00*
(plus additional costs for individual Bodies of Work)
2019 CAPA Subject Fees Note
2019 CAPA Subject Equipment List
