Arts

Arts

Arts stimulate young imaginations, challenge perceptions and develop creative and analytical skills. Involvement in the arts encourages students to understand the arts in context and the cultural histories of artworks, supporting the development of an inquiring and empathetic worldview. Arts challenge and enrich personal identity and build awareness of the aesthetic in a real-world context.

How is Arts structured in the MYP?

In MYP years 1 to 3, arts course structures include a minimum of one visual arts discipline and one performing arts discipline followed by a choice of disciplines in years 4 and 5 of the programme.

The arts disciplines offered in the MYP are:

• Visual art

• Media

• Drama

• Music

• Dance

Schools can organize the study of arts in the MYP as:

• discrete disciplines, focusing on each discipline separately

• integrated courses, in which a combination of either performing arts disciplines or visual arts disciplines are studied. Schools are not permitted to combine performing and visual arts as one integrated course

• modular courses, students undertake a consecutive rotation of disciplines for a set period of time each, though not necessarily a full school year. These modules each focus on a single arts discipline – such as visual art, music, or drama.

The arts disciplines offered at ILG are: Music and Visual Arts