Creative arts

Creative Arts assists students in their lifelong learning in the visual arts, music, drama and dance. It also assists students to participate in and contribute to cultural life, to become informed consumers of the arts and culture and to empathise with others.

We are very privileged at Cromer Public School to have a specialist art teacher. You can read all the news about art in the school's art blog. 

A wide range of extra-curricular activities are offered  to our students ranging from:

• Choir - Senior choir and junior choir.
• Dance - Senior dance, junior dance, senior hip-hop dance and junior hip-hop.
• Drama - Senior drama and junior drama.
• Violin - Senior string ensemble, intermediate string ensemble and training string ensemble,
• Band - Senior band, intermediate band and training band, senior chamber ensemble
• Debating teams - for Year 5 and Year 6.

Many of these talented groups are chosen for the district, regional and state performances at the Sydney Opera house, Glen Street theatre, the Seymour Centre, NIDA and the Sydney Entertainment Centre. The school is extremely proud of it's creative and performing arts programs. Each year the school showcases these talented groups Cromer's annual creative and performing arts evenings.

The school is indeed extremely fortunate to have so many dedicated and talented members of staff whose expertise in this area is outstanding. Many of the groups rehearse before and after school, as well as during lunch time periods.

Visual arts

How to help your child in visual arts:

• Try to make available a variety of simple tools and materials for artmaking activities, such as paper, pens, brushes, glue, coloured pencils, paints, cardboard cylinders, boxes, leaves and twigs, and containers to store these materials.
• Find purposeful ways for your child to use their art knowledge and skills - for example, occasions such as birthdays, children could design and make cards and gifts.
• Talk to your child about the design and construction of artworks, signs, logos, shopping centres, public parks, buildings and public sculptures.
• Display your child's artworks at home.
• Encourage your child to keep a diary for their drawings of things that interest them and a scrapbook for images they like.
• Make artworks with your child and discuss what you are each doing and why you are doing it.
• Talk to your child about what artists and designers do.
• Where opportunities arise, encourage your child to visit galleries and museums (including virtual galleries on the internet).
• Many art galleries have children's programs that run on weekends and during school holidays.
• Check out art games and activities online as this encourages information and communication technology (ICT)as well as art.
• Encourage your child to enter art and drawing competitions.