At Harvest Home Primary our Visual Arts program is designed to nurture our students’ innate creative curiosities, whilst simultaneously building their artistic knowledge and practical capabilities.

In the junior years, our students are introduced to Visual Arts through a Process Art approach. This approach prioritises and celebrates the discoveries and connections that students make throughout the art making process, rather than focusing on the aesthetics of a final product. During these sessions our students build artistic knowledge and confidence through a variety of open-ended art opportunities. These sensory rich experiences are designed to encourage our students to play, explore, discover, imagine, and create.

In the senior years our students build their technical and theoretical art skills through five key art forms: sculpture, drawing, painting, collage, and mixed media. During this time, artistic knowledge, understanding, and technical skills are intrinsically linked throughout each unit of work. This allows our students to make, view, analyse, enjoy, and respond to artworks with greater command of the genre of study.

Across all year levels Visual Art is underpinned by the Victorian Curriculum where students explore the core focus areas of ‘Exploring’, ‘Developing Practices, ‘Creating’ and ‘Presenting’. This also integrates two interrelated artistic principles, where students can learn as an artist and a viewer, and where students can learn through making and responding.

Students are also invited to attend a range of engagement clubs throughout the year that link to their learning in Visual Arts, including drawing and colouring.