Aesthetics

The Art Department aims to nurture in pupils a love for the visual arts by developing their art-making skills and enabling them to creatively express their ideas in visual form. In understanding themselves and appreciating the diversity around them, pupils learn to create meaningful artworks.

Starting 2016, all pupils are expected to use a sketchbook as part of their art experience. The sketchbooks serve as a platform for pupils to record information, generate ideas, explore different techniques and reflect.

The Music Curriculum incorporates both experiential learning and visible thinking routines, to create a culture of positive musicianship. Using blended learning techniques, students use a variety of tools and platforms, including physical instruments, electronic music and loops, to create music and to perform. We believe that music is not a static subject, but that it will develop both the heart and mind. As students develop their music listening and performance skills, they also develop character and values, and learn to display dispositions that appreciate art, music and culture. They also develop creativity. All primary 2 students begin learning about music elements such as note values and rests. This is further reinforced in primary 4, as they learn about further music elements such as accidentals, major and minor keys, and musical terms.