Visual Arts

Junior Form

1. To develop students’ perceptual abilities, with special emphasis on visual, aesthetic and arts experience;

2. To enable students to express personal feelings and thoughts through artistic presentations;

3. To develop students’ visual cognition, generic skills and metacognition through art making, appreciation and criticism;

4. To broaden students’ perspectives through exploration of the arts of diverse cultures; and

5. To cultivate students’ emotions, personal refinement, morals and sense of commitment towards the nation and the world.

Senior Form

The aims of the Visual Arts curriculum are to enable students to:

1. enrich their aesthetics and arts experience;

2. strengthen their abilities to appreciate and create various forms of visual arts work aesthetically and critically;

3. develop perceptual abilities, generic skills, multiple perspectives and metacognition through autonomous and open-ended processes of enquiry in art learning;

4. enhance cultural and cross-cultural understanding through exploration of the art of diverse cultures;

5. cultivate personal refinement, positive values and attitudes, self-identity and a sense of commitment towards the community, the nation and the world; and

6. acquire a foundation for pursuing education and career opportunities in the art and creative industries.

Teachers