Curriculum:Art
As an essential part of a comprehensive, balanced primary school curriculum, visual arts programs present opportunities for children to realise their full potential.
Such programs provide a means of expression for intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual needs, thereby providing a unique means of communication.
A Visual Arts program should develop students’ aesthetic sensitivities, thus fine-tuning their abilities to make choices and judgements in life, thereby allowing them to make quality contributions to their environment, to their own lifestyle and to their personal state of being. Learners will therefore need to experience a visual arts program that responds to their individual and collective capabilities and needs for aesthetic development and development in critical literacy.
Art education provides opportunities for people to participate in their cultural heritage, to build self confidence by better understanding themselves, their own and other cultures, the natural world and created environments.
The Rainworth Visual Arts Program will reflect the strong community interest in art and the high value placed on art by the parents of our students. A quality Visual Arts Program provides enrichment for all, and outlets for the particularly gifted amongst our children.
The program provides a balanced sequential experiences across the range of studio areas for yrs 1 - Yr 7 ensuring the consistent development of :
- Visual Art knowledge
- Skills and Techniques
- Critical and Creative thinking processes - while children Discover, Plan, Do and Evaluate
- Visual Literacy
- Attitudes to do with appreciation and evaluation
This program is unique to our school and is supported through the early years from Prep through a play based focus.
Excellence in the Visual Arts Integration Program is an extention program for selected year 7 students held each week at The Gap State High School. At the end of year 6, interested students are invited to submit a portfolio of works to secure an interview with the Gap High School art department selection panel.
Biennial Art Show Art curators take note - Rainworth's pupils from all year levels create works throughout the Art Show year in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, print making, textiles, construction, modelling and carving, electronic imaging and mixed media.
Rainworth's curriculum is enriched by an exceptional visual arts program, the results of the syllabus and the children's efforts are on display again in 2010.
