Culture, Music and Sport
The Culture, Music and Sport Faculty is one of the six faculties at Carterton Community College. As a Faculty, our aim is to ensure that all students are given the opportunities to excel in all areas of the curricula that we provide. As an eclectic set of subjects, we all have individual subject specific aims but our key principle of positive outcomes for all students of all abilities from all backgrounds permeates through everything that we do.
Modern Foreign Languages
We teach French, German and Spanish.
The aims of the MFL curriculum are to:
Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
Speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
Can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
Discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
The aims of the PE curriculum are to:
Develop a positive attitude towards leading a healthy, active lifestyle.
To encourage physical activity for a sustained period.
To engage in competitive sports and activities.
Develop competence and confidence to partake in a broad range of physical activities.
To develop attributes beyond the physical, including empathy, leadership, communication, and cooperation.
MUSIC
The aims of the Music curriculum are to:
Students develop their performance ability through playing a range of different instruments
Students understand and can use different approaches to composing, developing their creativity
Students gain confidence in their use of specific vocabulary to describe and analyse music that they hear
For students to discover and develop an appreciation of different styles of music and cultures
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