Creative arts

Visual Arts

In Visual Arts students develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in making artworks informed by their investigations of the world as subject matter, use of expressive forms, and consideration of the audience for their works.

They also develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in appreciating their own artworks and those of others, recognising some relationships between artists, artworks, audiences and how the world is interpreted.

All students in MEPS participate in weekly art lessons. 

Music

In Music, students develop knowledge, skills and understanding in performing music of different styles and from different times and cultures by singing, playing and moving, and organising sound into musical compositions using musical concepts. They also develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in listening to and discussing their own music and that of others. 

Drama

In Drama, students develop knowledge, skills and understanding in making drama collaboratively by taking on roles and creating imagined situations shaped by the elements of drama, and in performing drama by actively engaging in drama forms. They also develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in appreciating their own dramatic works and those of others. 

Dance

In Dance, students develop knowledge, skills and understanding in composing their own dances using the elements and contexts of dance and in performing their own dances and the dances of others from different times and cultures. They also develop knowledge, skills and understanding in appreciating their own dances and those of others.

In addition to the in-class dance program, students who display talent and/or interest in dance are invited to compete in the Northern Rivers Dance Festival, held annually at Twin Towns in Tweed Heads.

Our Aboriginal Dance troupe is also an opportunity for students to learn traditional and modern dance. This dance troupe performs regularly at events.