Visual Arts

NAG 1: CURRICULUM

TRENTHAM SCHOOL STATEMENT OF INTENT

VISUAL ARTS

Reviewed by Staff – June 2020

Reviewed by Board – June 2020

Ratified by BOT – June 2020

Next review date – June 2023

PURPOSES

For students to:

1. Participate in and celebrate their own and others’ visual works.

2. Develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness.

3. Investigate the contexts in which art works are created, used and valued.

4. Explore and appreciate the visual cultures of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

GUIDELINES

1. Teachers will provide opportunities for students to express themselves using a variety of materials and processes..
   

2. Teachers will provide opportunities for students to discuss, manipulate and transform visual, tactile and spatial ideas to solve problems.
   

3. Teachers will develop students’ conceptual thinking within a range of practices through drawing, sculpture, design, painting, printmaking, photography and moving image.
   

4. Teachers will expose students to Māori contexts and other visual arts (e.g. European, Pasifika, Asian) that add significant dimensions to New Zealand visual culture.

REFERENCE:

The New Zealand Curriculum 2007