Music

Music contributes to the holistic development of learners: it develops creative, interpretative and analytical skills, preparing learners for participation in community life within a South African, pan-African and global context.

Some changes to the way Music is taught as a subject are:

Four main learning outcomes must be achieved:

Music is now accessible to more learners, with the study being broader, developing more skills than just a high level of performing and composition.

Visual Art

“The visual arts represent a broad field of creative practice involving the hand, the eye, the intellect and the imagination in conceptualizing and crafting two-dimensional objects and environments which reflect the aesthetic, conceptual and expressive concerns of individuals or groups”.

As a result, learners acquire the capacity to make practical and aesthetic decisions in the development of a coherent body of work and become actively involved in shaping physical, social and cultural environments. Learners develop new ways in which to respond to and interact with their world.

There is a wide range of assessments offering the learner a wider area of skills in which to achieve. The art course has always had a broad base of assessments because of the practical and academic components. The new syllabus embraces these in the recognition given to the applied competencies: practical, foundational and reflective competencies.

A foundational education in the Visual Arts opens doors to the following: