The Arts
At Undurba State School, The Arts play a vital role in nurturing creativity, confidence and self-expression. Aligned with the Australian Curriculum, our Arts program engages students in Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts, giving them opportunities to explore ideas, emotions and cultures through hands-on learning. Students develop important skills in communication, collaboration and creative thinking while appreciating the rich artistic traditions of Australia, including those of First Nations peoples. Through meaningful and enjoyable Arts experiences, we empower every Undurba learner to imagine, create and shine.
Music
At Undurba State School we value music education and its contribution to our students’ lives.
Decades of research show that learning music can help students’ self-confidence, self-discipline and team work. It can help students engage in school, can improve school attendance and can even help students to make healthy life choices. There are also strong links between music learning and academic skills in literacy and numeracy.
All students from Prep to Year 6 have music lessons from a classroom music specialist teacher. We offer students from Year 3 the opportunity to join our strings program, while from Year 4 students are offered the opportunity to join our band program consisting of instruments from the woodwind, percussion and brass families. We have a strong ensemble program across all areas of our music program run by specialist instrumental teachers.
We offer students from Years 1 to 6 the opportunity to sing as part of our school choir. All of our ensembles, both instrumental and choral, are given multiple performance opportunities across the year. We have an Arts Showcase each semester to allow parents to see progress of all of our ensembles, and in Term 4 we have our Showcase celebrating the performing arts.