Visual and Performing Arts.
Performing Arts
Students at Torquay College enjoy a well-resourced and established Music department, with dedicated teachers who collaborate on all aspects of the program. From Foundation level, students play instruments including kazoo, ukulele and percussion, explore musical concepts through dance and movement, and sing a variety of songs suitable for young voices. The main aim is fun and development of a love of music, as well as a sense of pitch and beat.
The music program builds through each year of primary school, with all students learning to play tunes on harmonica and ukulele, as their skills progress. Students are encouraged to express themselves through song-writing, through exploring the sounds of different instruments, and by using technology to create and record music in the later years.
From year 3 on, students are invited to audition for the band program, which runs as an extra-curricular program during lunchtimes. Our bands perform at community events, assemblies and at the annual Geelong Schools Music and Movement Festival.
Torquay College also runs a Circus Troupe and Drama Club, as additional Performing Arts opportunities. These are also run as part of the lunchtime clubs program.
Visual Arts
Torquay College’s Art Program is highly regarded by the students and wider community. The students are exposed to a variety of mediums, equipment, techniques and work in both 2D and 3D mediums.
Contemporary and traditional art work is regularly used as a stimulus for students’ work. Large collaborative work is often undertaken and students have the opportunity to display their work in exhibitions at school and professional settings including our Creations Fair at the end of the year .
Torquay College also offer's an Art Academy program to our Yr 6 students who show special interest and talent in art. This program begins at the end of Term 1 and runs throughout the year.