Aesthetics

Aesthetics

The HeARTS (Holistic Education through the ARTs) programme refers to the school’s aesthetics curriculum. Adopting the E-Cube approach of Exposure, Experience and Engagement, the Aesthetics Department strives to provide depth and breadth in our students’ experience of the arts as well as inculcate graciousness, resilience and confidence, therefore developing the artistic grace in all our students.

Approach	Platform	Details
Exposure	Assembly Programmes	To provide an arts programme for our students that develops their appreciation of the various art forms (theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literary arts, film and multimedia).
Experience	Art and Music Curriculum, Talent development, Aesthetics CCAs and platform	To give our students opportunities to develop their talents through modular approaches in: • The art and music curriculum • Talent development programmes • A progressive 4-year CCA experience and • Various platforms to showcase their talents
Engagement	Learning Journeys Sessions with special guests	Our children have the opportunity to go on learning journeys to various arts venues for authentic experience and exposure to a variety of art forms. During Interest Week - Discovering The Unique Me!, the Primary 3 to 5 children have a chance to meet guest speakers who are involved in the various arts industries and find out more about the career paths and be inspired by their stories.

Art Curriculum @ CCPS

The art curriculum in our school provides a foundation for all our students to understand art as a way of learning about themselves and the world around them. Through our 6-year HeArt & Soul Art curriculum and programme, we hope to promote a holistic and inclusive culture of growth.

Our art modules are planned based on the Seeing, Expressing, Appreciating (SEA) approach.

Approach	Details
Seeing	Students engage their senses to observe the surroundings, view and discuss artworks to develop their sensory skills, encourage imagination and promote ideas generation.
Expressing	Students generate ideas, experiment and explore different ways to create artworks to communicate their ideas, feelings and experiences.
Appreciating	Students acquire appropriate art vocabulary to interpret and share about their artworks. They also learn to draw connections and see the relevance of art in their daily lives and the community.

Students are exposed to different local and global artists and a wide variety of art forms such as 2D, 3D, Design and Digital Media.
Cooperative learning structures and thinking routines are infused into the different art modules

Music Curriculum @ CCPS

All music lessons are carefully planned based on the Experience-Concept-Application-Recap (E-C-A-R) approach.

Experience	Students experience and perceive the new concept through singing and accompanying kinesthetic, aural and visual activities
Concept	Teachers will help their students relate the activities in the Experience phase to formal learning
Application	The Application phase involves various forms of practice such as recognition, notation, reproduction, improvisation, creating, performing and listening
Recap	Serves as a recall and summary of the music concepts learnt during the music lesson

Students are exposed to a wide variety of composers and music genres through ‘Genre Studies’ which infuses thinking routines.

Through learning journeys, such as a trip to the Esplanade, students will appreciate the different roles musicians play in an ensemble. Through our robust Digital Music Programmes, students will have the opportunity to explore music creation using technology. Canossa Has Talent is also another platform for our children to showcase their talents in the various arts forms and stand a chance to perform for their teachers during Teachers’ Day Celebration.

The 6-year journey in developing the artistic grace in all our students can be seen during our annual Primary 6 Graduation Musical. All the students will be involved in this massive production, from the creation of props to the final musical showcase on their Graduation Day. All the students will have the opportunity to act, sing, dance or play an instrument in the musical, showcasing what they have learnt and developed over their six years of arts education in Canossa.

The quality of our Arts Education and that of our performing Arts groups has been recognised through a number of awards, in particular the National Arts Education Award (NAEA) - Silver (2009-2012), the Glow Award (2013-2016) and the SYF Certificates of Accomplishment (2024) in Choir, Guitar Ensemble and Handbell Ensemble and SYF Certificate of Distinction (2024) in Modern Dance.

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