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The Specialist Visual and Performing Arts (SVAPA) program at Mount Lawley SHS in Year Eight and Nine (Middle School) is distinctive.
Drama, Media, Music, and Visual Arts are practiced with a combined, collaborative and contemporary focus.
This approach in the Middle School maximizes potential and allows students a broad appreciation and understanding of the Arts.
It ensures that the Arts are central to the learning experience and provides an opportunity for integration of the Arts across Learning Areas.
The SVAPA program has an additional pastoral function in the Middle School for students who have gifts and talents in this area.
The SVAPA Parent Group through fundraising and regular meetings supports the aspirations of the program. The reputation of SVAPA is embedded in the local community.
In Year Ten students are encouraged to specialise in their area/areas of excellence.
They are also involved in a SVAPA Project class which is a collaborative program assisted by artist-mentors from the community.
We aim to develop the students academically, vocationally and socially so that they are independent, creative and responsible lifelong learners.
Our proximity to WAAPA and Edith Cowan University has provided course enrichment and research-based initiatives that extend our combined, contemporary arts' focus.
As a pilot school in the Growing Future Innovators program or Spark-lab at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) the SVAPA program has been recognised for its unique arts' approach.
The SVAPA Production in 2012 was part of this project. The Museum of Now was directed by James Berlyn with four other artists from a Visual Art and Music background.
In 2013 the SVAPA Parents Support Group (PSG) supported further work under James Berlyn's guidance and B.I. G. (Bullying Is Good?) was produced at MLSHS.
Year Ten students were an essential part of the projects each year.
Further details about the SVAPA Program
Details about applying for the SVAPA Program
SVAPA News
Midsummer Dreaming
If you crack, pick and excavate ... you will find something, something that moves, breathes, pulses in a rhythm that echoes. In the beginning, there was nothing but darkness where spiritual beings drifted aimlessly through until Ngarkk the sun rose for the very first time. Midsummer Dreaming is a fierce and inspiring production guaranteed to move you, perhaps move you to the dream land where love is forbidden, however, passionate. Midsummer Dreaming is the 2017 Year 8 SVAPA production that has been reinterpreted into an Indigenous Noongar context ...
SVAPA Information Night
Prospective parents of buddying artists and performers will have a chance to gain some information on Mount Lawley’s Specialist Visual & Performing Arts Program on the 14th of March 2017. Details of course content, extra curricular and professional opportunities will be addressed, as with our structure and ethos. Information on the application process will be discussed as well ...
Lawley Art Auction Success 2016
On Saturday June 18th, the senior school building was transformed into the excitement that is the annual Mount Lawley Senior High School Lawley Art Auction. With performances from our talented Music students and a bevy of willing student and parent volunteers, guests were welcomed to the night with a range of delicacies and a beverage or two whilst they browsed the artwork up for auction. Bidding was fierce for an array of stunning artworks and we’re happy to report that sales were excellent ...
Year 8 SVAPA Production - Tickets Now Available
Come and see the wonderful SVAPA year 8 Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, showing at the Tricycle Theatre on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 June, 2016, at 7:00pm ...
Continue reading Year 8 SVAPA Production - Tickets Now Available ...
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