The performing arts

Our school is passionately devoted to enriching our students culturally, artistically, and creatively through performance opportunities.

Drama

Drama at St Johns Park High School fosters, nurtures, and extends students' natural talents and artistic expression. Drama is an important means of understanding, appreciating, exploring, and communicating values, traditions, attitudes, beliefs, and their consequences. Students work in a collaborative and cooperative learning environment to develop a range of skills, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Students are encouraged to embrace values and skills such as diligence, dedication, effort, co-operation, collaboration, and commitment to create exciting and relevant pieces of theatre.

Senior Drama students also have the opportunity to produce a Senior Performance Evening. Year 11 Drama students are responsible for all the production elements, including poster and promotion, costume design, set design, sound design, and stage management. Year 12 Drama students present their group projects during the Senior Performance Evening, which they write and direct as part of their HSC course.

Music

Music caters to both beginner and advanced students, allowing students to experiment with a variety of musical instruments. During the course, students will enrich their understanding of music history as well as gain practical experience. Students will also participate in the Music PBL, where they will create an original piece that reflects real-world problems. If students are passionate about selecting Music as one of their electives in their senior years, they will get the opportunity to express their talents by performing their own original piece at the Music Showcase.

Visual Arts

Visual Arts provides opportunities for students to enjoy the making and studying of art. Students learn to investigate and respond to a wide range of artists and artworks in artmaking, critical, and historical studies, enhancing their understanding of Visual Art's place in the world. Students experience a range of media and techniques of traditional art-making practices, such as painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, and computer-generated artworks.

Student artworks are celebrated and displayed at school functions and in the local community.