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Elementary School Visual Arts

Our students are encouraged to investigate and explore various art techniques, concepts and ideas introduced to them through visual arts instruction. Through careful teaching, they are also encouraged to develop a sense of enjoyment and excitement with the subject, as they make and display their artistic ability to others through individual and group work. 'Creativity' balanced by the study of art 'tradition' is at the heart of this instruction.

Students are given the opportunity to learn:

  • To work with various tools, processes and media.
  • To coordinate their hands and minds in an exploration of visual and tactile art,craft and design.
  • To make choices that can enhance the communication of their ideas.
  • To ask questions about the world’s appearance and it many symbols.
  • The value of perseverance and effort.

Middle School Exploratory Art

The overall objectives of the Middle School Art course are:

  • Personal - to inspire interest and curiosity in children, to place the work within a meaningful context for them and to generate responses to the ideas and problems presented by a theme or project.
  • Technical - to develop the understanding of those visual elements that reveal the appearance of the world: color tone, pattern etc. and the understanding of different forms of visual response.

The course is based upon investigation of the Elements and Principles of Design and how artists have developed their ideas and approaches to the subject. This in turn directs the work of the students towards producing well-developed artwork of their own. The course incorporates techniques of working from both observation and imagination alongside which, students develop skills of critically analyzing both their own work and the work of others. Each student has a sketchbook, which they work in both in class and at home.

3d Design class involves the creation of a variety of models using a collection of mediums: Clay, plaster, styrofoam, and wire/mesh paper-mache and ready-made goods for example, plastic waste. Students will involve the elements and principals of art primarily; the design process will be adopted. Assessment will involve the student giving a presentation, displaying their study and drawn plans. Photographs are taken to create a gallery on study wiz. 

High School Art

This course provides an introduction to the visual Arts, focusing on studio production and development of practical art skills, research analysis development is also included. Students explore a wide range of 2D and 3D media through set assignments.

The Aims of the visual Arts course are as follows:

  • Develop skills in various basic elements of art, self-expression and imagination.
  • Encourage experimentation with various medium.
  • Increase art vocabulary.
  • Introduce relative elements of art history to the student.
  • Though the use of various materials the students will develop; a value of design, a knowledge of basic principals: proportion, balance, negative and positive space, pattern.
  • The ability to critique and discuss artwork

Grade 9 and 10 Art perform the role of art foundation courses with instruction in basic skills as well in more advanced concepts such as abstraction. The Grade 9 art course builds upon and develops art skills learned in middle years.

Grade 10 also acts as a pre-IB course with a first year of IB Art as a logical progression.

IB Visual Art - High School

Grade 11 and 12  follow the IBO Art guidelines.

The IB Visual Arts Diploma Program course enables students to engage in both practical exploration and artistic production and in an independent contextual, visual and critical investigation, with option A students focusing more on the former and option B students on the latter. The course is designed to enable students to study visual arts in higher education and also welcomes those students who seek life enrichment through visual arts.

Higher Level - Option A
Studio work60% & Investigation workbook  40%
Higher Level - Option B
Studio work 40% & Investigation workbook 60%

Standard Level - Option A
Studio work60% &Investigation workbook40%
Standard Level - Option B
Studio work 40% & Investigation workbook60%