Fine Arts
Fine Arts
The Fine Arts provide opportunities for students to represent their learning in creative and personally relevant ways. Through creating, communicating, performing, and responding to works of art, students grow in their creative abilities, curiosity, open-mindedness, independence, persistence and flexibility. The Fine Arts also provide students with a source of pleasure and enjoyment and a deepened awareness of themselves and their place in their environment, community, culture, and world.
Key Components
Fine Arts curriculum includes the following areas of instruction:
• Dance
• Drama
• Music
• Visual Arts
Each of these areas has its own essential skills, techniques, and processes that provide students with unique ways of assimilating and expressing their learning. Secondary schools offer more specialized courses within these components, based on student interest.
Related Programs
Art Stretch: a program for elementary students who demonstrate very high artistic ability and an extraordinary passion for the Visual Arts. A small number of students from Grades 5-7 are selected each year for the Art Stretch program, based on the submission of a Portfolio. Sessions are held on Saturdays. The program includes a field trip to an art gallery as well as an exhibition/celebration of the young artists' work.
Related Links
BC Ministry of Education - Fine Arts
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/irp_fa.htm