Specialist programs

Performing Arts

DANCE

Learners explore dance across time, cultures, and communities. They participate in a whole school end-of-year concert, performing a class dance on stage. Some classes choreograph their performances with teacher support.

DRAMA

Learners use their imaginations to create new possibilities and connect ideas within stories, settings, and characters. They use facial expressions, body movements, and voices to represent characters.

Learners explore building characters through and for drama. They develop an understanding of voice, body, movement, and character. They perform short, improvised scenes both individually and collaboratively.

Learners experiment with various physical, vocal and movement choices to develop characters. They perform improvised and scripted drama both individually and collaboratively.

MEDIA ARTS

Learners explore how media arts created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe how media arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures. Students use media languages, and media technologies and production processes to construct representations in media arts works for specific purposes and audiences.

MUSIC

During Music lessons, students have access to a range of musical instruments. They learn about the elements of music including pitch, rhythm, beat, tempo, form, structure, timbre and basic notation through singing, playing instruments, composing, making and responding to music.

Learning experiences include making music together, engage in beat readiness activities, and exploring the sounds students can make with their voices and body percussion, as well as a range of musical instruments. They compose, rehearse and perform using their voices, everyday objects, untuned percussion instruments, and more traditional instruments. Learners explore how the elements of music can be used to convey a sense of place, describe characters and create suspense.

VISUAL ARTS is taught by the class teacher as part of the The Arts curriculum.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PROGRAM

Music tuition is available through the Instrumental Music Service Strings Program. Students starting at Year 4 can learn to play: saxophone, trumpet, trombone, flute, clarinet, french horn, and percussion via face-to-face lessons provided by a qualified DfE instrumental music teacher who visits the school one day per week. Students learn how to play, care for and set up their chosen instrument, and how to read music.

Learning is generally conducted in small groups tailored to suit the instruments, year and ability levels of the students. An ensemble is also formed for players to learn how to perform as a larger group.

This program is free of charge to students. Families pay a set fee to hire their child’s instrument for the year.

Choir Group

Year 5 and 6 students have the opportunity to participate in the school’s senior choir. Choir members practise each week, learning singing and performance skills in preparation for the Primary Schools of South Australia Festival of Music Program.

A set repertoire of songs and choreography is learnt and practised by students in readiness for a culminating performance at the Festival Theatre or Adelaide Entertainment Centre late in term 3 of the school year. Students also learn about context and how songs relate to a range of topics, emotions, themes and messages. They learn vocal techniques, performance etiquette, and the processes and procedures involved in being a performer and part of a larger choir.

Please click here to visit the Australian Curriculum website to read more about The Arts curriculum.

SAPSASA SPORT

Allenby gardens Primary School is a member of SA School Sports (SAPSASA) Western District.

Every year, students can complete in a variety of different SAPSASA Sports competitions for example, soccer, netball, basketball and cricket. Try-outs and selections are completed at school. The selected teams then play against other schools until they are defeated. Students from years 4, 5 and 6 also have the opportunity to participate in the state athletics carnival.

The Knockout Competitions are for students in grades 5 and 6 however, special exemptions can be made for students in Grade 4 if given approval from School Sport SA.

Selected students from grades 5 and 6 that display outstanding skill in certain sports will be invited to try out for district state teams.

If your child is involved in a sport that Allenby Gardens Primary School is not, check the SAPSASA website to see if opportunities are available for your child to compete on a state level.

Languages

GREEK

All students at Allenby Gardens have the opportunity to learn Greek.

Every class has one 50-minute Greek lesson per week to develop broad communication skills and explore the Greek culture.

Annually, we have language teacher support from the Greek Consulate to stretch and extend mother tongue language learners and all other learners learning the Greek language.

PUNJABI – First Language Maintenance and Development (FLMD)

The school offers it to students who meet the Department for Education’s eligibility criteria in the school’s target language (currently only Punjabi). The aim of the FLMD program is to support eligible students to:

• respect, develop and maintain their home language.
• develop language and literacy skills; to provide opportunity for strong conceptual learning that will extend students’ capability for language use.
• foster a positive sense of self-identity.

Students who do not meet the criteria for the FLMD program are able to access language development through Ethnic Schools or the School of Languages in their out of hours programs. For more information click here to visit the School of Languages website.

KITCHEN AND GARDEN PROGRAM