2020 Aesthetics Department
The Aesthetics Department nurtures and empowers students by developing students’ flair in embracing and implementing their learning of the arts in life. We offer a magnitude of programmes in which students are exposed to various methodologies and practices to become independent problem-solvers and apply important life-skills.
The Lower Secondary Music curriculum utilizes self-directed and collaborative learning, to motivate students to achieve instrumental mastery and performance competency. Students apply their knowledge of musical theory, music recording and developed their creative musical abilities in an Arrangement Module, making use of the iPad app Garage Band. Through the Music Appreciation module, students develop an awareness and appreciation across various cultures.
For Lower Secondary Art, we anchor our lessons on the Big Ideas from the Lower Secondary Art Syllabus. Using Inquiry-Based-Learning, Secondary One students take on a more personal approach in their art-making processes while using useful Visual qualities. Secondary Two learn to value their friends’ artwork by collaborating, appreciating and critique using Feldman's approach. Higher Art students emphasise on honing their aesthetic qualities by developing their observational skills through effective techniques. Through contextual settings, students produce 2-d, 3-d and environment artworks. Home-based Learning allowed them to deepen their knowledge in Art Theory and art practice independently.
Design and Technology emphasizes the design-thinking process through problem-solving as well as design-and-make activities. Students conducted need analysis of selected targets; learning to journey-map the activities of their chosen client and uncover possible issues to derive at a design direction. They use divergent thinking to generate ideas before converging their ideas to arrive at the final solution. Models were made to test out the solutions before making prototypes.
Food & Consumer Education lessons place much emphasis on authentic learning experiences through exploration of nutrition, diet-related diseases, and their impact on our lives. Students are engaged in robust discussion on food resource and money-management topics. Mind Mapping enabled students to identify important issues in consumer habits; while various ICT tools and platforms enabled effective collaboration in their research; helping them develop greater literacy in the subject.
Novelist Thomas Wolfe once said: “Culture is the ARTS elevated to a set of BELIEFS.” Everyone is born with imagination. The Arts allow students to imagine, think, synthesize and beautify with a purpose. Our aim is to engage them to use these skills to serve the community and society.