Visual Art
The Visual Arts specialist program is delivered and implemented at West Leeming Primary School to cater for students in Year 1 and Year 2 once a week for 1 ½ hours.
Benefits of learning Visual Arts:
- appreciate Art around us
- learn through the Arts
- integrate with other Learning Areas to explore, extend, enhance
- use of Art to express feelings
- tell stories through Art
- use Art for students with special needs for fine motor skills
- express thinking
- a way to communicate ideas
- develop language
Students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express their own and others ideas. Visual Art supports ability to recognize and develop cultural appreciation of Visual Arts both past and present contents through exploring and responding to artists and their artwork.
Students in Year 1 and Year 2 are offered a range of resources to enhance their love of learning in Visual Art.
As Art is all around, through shape, colour, texture, patterns and lines, students can expand on these elements to create some individual masterpieces.
