ABSTRACT
The requirements of the National Curriculum 2000, although subject based, can be interpreted and taught in a variety of ways, implementing traditional and innovative approaches. Dance, drama, music and visual art, in addition to possessing a unique role as part of the creative and aesthetic area of the curriculum, also possess central and pivotal roles in drawing together other subject areas in the form of integration and interdisciplinary experiences of the primary school. In this way, the arts are both conceived and organised as an integral and central part of every school day. This chapter illustrates how, when primary school children formulate their responses in the performing and visual arts through the use of different forms of expression (sound, movement, voice and art materials), they are also empowered to understand other types of learning within the primary school curriculum. This occurs because diversity and richness are provided by using a number of media forms that address contrasting modes of perception.
