Arts Week 2022

WELCOME TO ARTS WEEK 2022

The IB arts curriculum through its Programmes, PYP, MYP, and DP, encourages students to develop skills through creating, performing and presenting arts in methods that engage and communicate feelings, experiences and ideas. Through this practice students acquire, learn, refine and master the skills necessary to develop learning.

The Arts Week at CIS, celebrated annually in the early part of May, provides students the opportunity to showcase how they have functioned as artists, as well as learners of the arts. Ideally, during this entire week, artworks, performances, and activities are displayed and promoted all over the school featuring student artwork, art activities, performances from band and drama classes, expert talks, and concerts by visiting musicians and our very own CIS band.

This year the arts department is once again upholding the Arts Week tradition online with this virtual gallery. Please enjoy exploring our featured student work.

Arts are integral to the PYP. They are a powerful mode of communication through which students explore and construct a sense of self and develop an understanding of the world around them. Arts provide students with a wide range of opportunities and means to respond to their experiences and engage with historical, social and cultural perspectives. The students are stimulated to think and to articulate their thoughts in new ways, and through a variety of media and technologies. The PYP recognizes that not all learning can be supported solely through language, and that arts as a medium of inquiry also provide opportunities for learning, communication and expression. Learning about and through arts is fundamental to the development of the whole child, promoting creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and social interactions.

PYP Arts Scope and Sequence

The arts are a universal form of human expression and a unique way of knowing that engage us in effective, imaginative and productive activities. Learning through the arts helps us to explore, shape and communicate our sense of identity and individuality. A focus on the individual enhances our self-confidence, resilience and adaptability. It encourages our sense of belonging and community through the recognition of identities. During adolescence, the arts provide an opportunity for age-appropriate and holistic development of the social, emotional, intellectual and personal intelligences of the student.

In MYP arts students have opportunities to function as artists, as well as learners of the arts. Artists have to be curious. By developing curiosity about themselves, others and the world, students become effective learners, inquirers and creative problem-solvers. Students develop through creating, performing and presenting arts in ways that engage and convey feelings, experiences and ideas. It is through this practice that students acquire new skills and master those skills developed in prior learning.

MYP Arts Guide

The subjects in the arts allow a high degree of adaptability to different cultural contexts. The emphasis is on creativity in the context of disciplined, practical research into the relevant genres.

In addition, each subject is designed to foster critical, reflective and informed practice, help students understand the dynamic and changing nature of the arts, explore the diversity of arts across time, place and cultures, and express themselves with confidence and competence.

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