CREATIVE ARTS

Creative Arts provides opportunities for a learner to: self-explore, self-express, build mental focus, skilfully use hands to create (physical dexterity), manage and reduce stress,
achieve personal satisfaction and enjoyment. The skills acquired through the study of Creative Arts enable learners to improve their performance in other learning areas. The study
of Creative Arts prepares learners to undertake the study of the technical and vocational programmes in later years. It also prepares them for the modern world of work.
Creative Arts study at the primary school level is aimed at developing a functional and all-round learner. Learners are exposed to the 3Hs of Head (cognitive/mind/thinking), Hand
(psychomotor/body) and Heart (affective/feelings). Creative Arts inculcate in the learner the basic knowledge and understanding of diverse cultures, strong logical competencies, and
a range of comprehensive communication and interpersonal skills. Learners are to become critical thinkers and problem solvers as a result. Their self-esteem and sense of emotional
intelligence is also improved as they engage in tasks that require intuitive, emotional, holistic, nonverbal and visual-spatial methods for processing ideas and issues. Creative Arts
study will enable learners to be artistic, intuitive, imaginative, and visually oriented.
Therefore, the study of Creative Arts will:
1. develop learners to have creative and innovative skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, collaborative and communicative skills.
2. engage learners to acquire, develop and express their feelings and emotions in different ways during the learning process for effective transfer of knowledge: vertically and
horizontally.
3. shape the individual’s personal sense of social and cultural identity.
4. facilitate the recognition of the importance and value of the culture of the people; locally, nationally and globally.
5. prepare and predisposes the learner for advance learning in the Junior and Senior High schools thus contributing to informed choices of career courses and vocations in
the creative arts industry.
6. transmit, promote and preserve the culture of a nation.
7. help learners think critically and imaginatively to develop ideas for designing, making and responding to artistic processes and products.
8. embrace all domains of knowledge and life: intellectual, social, psychological, spiritual, artistic, aesthetic and physical.
9. provide avenues for self-expression, visual knowledge and the sense of discrimination between what is beautiful and unpleasant, so that people can make the right choices.
10. develop the skills, ability and aptitudes to adapt positively to:
i. the changing local and global environment and
ii. the need to sustain it.