heart & SOUL
heART & Soul is Canossa Catholic Primary School's distinctive art programme, designed to shape and engage our children's hearts and souls through rich art experiences in the curriculum and meaningful interactions with the environment around them.
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 children’s experience of the arts as well as inculcate graciousness, resilience and confidence.
E-Cube approach
Approach | Platform | Details |
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Exposure | Assembly Programmes | To provide an arts programme for our children that develops their appreciation of the various art forms (theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literary arts, film and multimedia). |
Experience | Art and Music Curriculum, | To give our children opportunities to develop their talents through modular approaches in: • The art and music curriculum |
Excursion | Learning Journeys | Each level goes on a learning journey to an arts venue to expose children 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 children 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.
Seeing, Expressing, Appreciating (SEA) approach
Approach | Details |
|---|---|
Seeing | Children engage their senses to observe the surroundings, view and discuss artworks to develop their sensory skills, encourage imagination and promote ideas generation. |
Expressing | Children generate ideas, experiment and explore different ways to create artworks to communicate their ideas, feelings and experiences. |
Appreciating | Children 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. |
Children 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-Concept-Application-Recap (E-C-A-R) approach
Experience | Children experience and perceive the new concept through singing and accompanying kinesthetic, aural and visual activities |
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Concept | Teachers will help their children 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 |
Children 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), children will appreciate the different roles musicians play in society. Through the Digital Music Programme (P3 and P4), children will have the opportunity to explore music creation using technology. All children 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 children learn the use of MS Paint while our P5 children learn about Stop-Motion Animation. Our children’s 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.
