東涌天主教學校(小學部) Tung Chung Catholic School

Visual Arts Course Introduction

The Arts Education curriculum aims to help students:

develop creativity, critical thinking and communication skills, also nurture aesthetic sensitivity and cultural awareness;
develop arts skills, construct knowledge, and cultivate positive values and attitudes;
gain delight, enjoyment and satisfaction through participating in arts activities; and
pursue a lifelong interest in the arts.

(Arts Education Key Learning Area Curriculum Guide (Primary 1 - Secondary 6) (2017))

To develop students’ art-making skills and creativity through progressively designed learning activities and art criticism.
to nurture aesthetic sense, critical thinking and effective communication through the interaction with artworks. 
to cultivate students’ ability of critical responses and the understanding art in context.

to enhance continuity in curriculum and strengthen collaboration between primary and secondary schools by the “through-train” programme mode.

To provide students with coherent, all-round and balanced learning experiences the “through-train” programme mode.
The curriculum framework is module-based planning. There are at least two topics under each module. Students are learning under clear learning targets, incorporated with the characteristics of teaching materials. We aimed to provide students with choices and encourage them to participate actively, which allows them to learn systematically.

Extracurricular visual art activity is held to further develop students with outstanding performance in the arts.
To engage students in authentic contexts to learn the arts, e.g. visiting an art exhibition, creating a mural on-site. These activities are essential for students to acquire first-hand experience of the arts.
Collaboration with art organizations, e.g. designing creative lessons, holding a talk or workshop by artists to broaden teachers and students’ horizon.

Exhibition space of students’ works is all around the school, and the works will be regularly updated.
A constant system for collecting students’ excellent works is run. Good works will be exhibited on the website.