This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 7 Creative Arts, made up of four separate plans for Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts. Across the year learners build practical skills, learn the terms and theory of each art form, and create and perform their own work.
Each art form has its own plan set out week by week for Terms 1 to 4, showing CAPS topics, concepts and skills, resources, informal assessment and the formal assessment task. Most formal tasks are 25 marks, and the mid-year and end-of-year assessments give equal weight to practical and written work.
Download the ATP
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- Download Drama (PDF, 206 KB)
- Download Music (PDF, 239 KB)
- Download Visual Arts (PDF, 304 KB)
What the Creative Arts Grade 7 ATP covers
Term 1
- Dance: posture, alignment and safe warm-ups
- Dance: elements of space and time
- Drama: voice and body warm-ups
- Drama: improvised drama and careers research
- Music: treble clef, note values and sol-fa
- Music: listening for meter, graphic scores
- Visual Arts: drawing and painting, still life
- Visual Arts: 3D work based on local craft
Formal assessment: Dance: practical performance (25). Drama: improvised drama performance (25). Music: practical music performance (25). Visual Arts: 2D artwork (25) and 3D artwork (25).
Term 2
- Dance: jumps, turns and spotting
- Dance: improvising with force and energy
- Drama: choral verse and folktales
- Drama: careers in the creative team
- Music: dotted notes, tempo and dynamics
- Music: creating vocal and instrumental music
- Visual Arts: etching and colour mixing
- Visual Arts: researching a local crafter
Formal assessment: Dance: practical performance (25) and written test (25). Drama: practical group performance (25) and written test (25). Music: practical performance (25) and written music literacy test (25). Visual Arts: 2D artwork (25) and written test (25).
Term 3
- Dance: a short South African dance
- Dance: composing a sequence from a stimulus
- Drama: drama from a cultural event
- Drama: careers in the support team
- Music: treble and bass clef, polyrhythm
- Music: African drumming and improvisation
- Visual Arts: 3D buildings or craftwork
- Visual Arts: paper-cut collage and patterns
Formal assessment: Dance: composition of a movement sequence (25). Drama: improvised drama performance (25). Music: practical music performance (25). Visual Arts: 3D artwork (25) and 2D artwork (25).
Term 4
- Dance: group dance from a South African theme
- Dance: revising dance theory and terms
- Drama: folktale storytelling and vocal expression
- Drama: drama-related fields of study
- Music: sound pictures from a story or poem
- Music: writing song lyrics on a social issue
- Visual Arts: life drawing on large scale
- Visual Arts: 3D change of a recyclable object
Formal assessment: Dance: practical examination (25) and written examination (25). Drama: practical examination (25) and written examination (25). Music: practical performance (25) and written examination (25). Visual Arts: practical examination, 2D and 3D artwork (25 each).
Source: Department of Basic Education, 2023/24 Annual Teaching Plans. DBE Circular S19 of 2025 keeps the 2023/24 ATPs in use, with some exclusions, so check with your school or district for any changes.