Performing Arts
Drama
Our Drama program allows students to explore different theatrical styles through workshops. Students have many opportunities to participate in drama activities throughout their Middle and Senior School years, in addition to performing in year-level plays, which are part of our curriculum.
Year 8: Cinematic Theatre
Culminating in a student-devised play for a Junior School audience.
Year 9: Stand-Up Comedy
Some of our students have performed in Class Clowns, part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Years 9 And 10: Drama Victoria Theatre Festival
Students devise a play and perform with other schools from around Victoria.
Year 10: Australian And Contemporary Drama Performance Evening
Students perform a contemporary play.
VCE Units 1 – 4 Theatre Studies
In addition to the curriculum, students experience VCE Performance Nights, solo performance seminars, workshops and production analysis. Students perform either an ensemble or a solo performance for each unit.
Dance
Our students love experiencing the diversity of dance, rather than just the steps. All students in Years 7 to 12 are encouraged to participate in our Senior School production, which combines our Music, Drama and Dance departments. Students can also join Dance Club, which runs outside school hours and culminates in an annual dance evening.
Year 8: ‘Defying Gravity’
Students explore physical theatre, focusing on free running and parkour, performing for their peers in alternative spaces around the School grounds.
Year 9: Dance Styles
Students explore why people dance, including the history of dance in ancient cultures and what dance looks like in the 21st century. They perform for their peers, and there is the opportunity for some to perform at the annual dance evening.
Year 10: ‘5, 6, 7, 8 Dance’
Students learn skills through choreography workshops. They choreograph their own dance work and teach it to a younger dance class.
VCE Units 1 – 4 Dance
In addition to the curriculum, students travel to Melbourne to participate in workshops and to see VCE Dance Top Class performances. Students perform their solos and group pieces at the Dance Evening.
Music
We foster musicianship through core curriculum and elective classes. All students are encouraged to pursue their love of music, whether through taking lessons in instrumental, voice, music theory or speech art. Students have the opportunity to participate as a band, ensemble, choir or providing backstage, lighting, sound and technical support.
Acknowledgement of Country
Ballarat and Queen’s Anglican Grammar School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we learn, live and work, the Wadawurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Commitment to Child Safety
Ballarat Grammar maintains a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of child abuse and actively implements measures to identify and manage any risks of harm to students within our school environment. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people are central and fundamental responsibilities of the School. We are firmly committed to fostering a child-safe culture that provides an environment where students are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices heard in decisions that affect their lives. Ballarat Grammar values diversity and strictly prohibits any racist or discriminatory practices. All members of our school community share the responsibility to care for children and young people by promptly raising any concerns regarding their safety, promoting their wellbeing, and protecting them from all forms of harm or abuse.
