heart & SOUL

HeART & Soul

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

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
Excursion	Learning Journeys	Each level goes on a learning journey to an arts venue to expose students to a variety of art forms as well as introduce iconic art venues to them.

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 (P2), students will appreciate the different roles musicians play in society. Through the Digital Music Programme (P3 and P4), students will have the opportunity to explore music creation using technology. All students will apply their learning by performing on stage during the Teachers’ Day Celebrations.

Recognising the increasing popularity of digital media in the aesthetics, the use of ICT has been woven into the arts curriculum. For example, our P2 students learn the use of MS Paint while our P5 students learn about Stop-Motion Animation. Our students’ talents are groomed through the Arts Instructional Programme, Arts CCAs and Arts Enrichment Programme. Their confidence in their own talents is enhanced through the provision of opportunities for external performances. In addition, since 2007, all members of Arts CCAs are given opportunities to attend concerts, performances and exhibitions to extend their understanding of the Arts.

The quality of our Arts Education and that of our performing Arts groups has been recognized 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 (2014, 2016 and 2018) in Choir and Modern Dance.

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