Page 24 - St Edmund's School Yearbook 2014

CREATIVE ARTS
Mrs Margriet Shaw-Taylor
The students have so many opportunities to be creative. In Art they each get at least one opportunity to visit an art gallery, they create installations outside, work with clay and mosaics, draw, paint, do decoupage and experiment with the art of Tie Dye among other things.
Kelvin’s Fruit
Student works
The Creative Arts program at St Edmund’s incorporates Visual Art, Drama, Music and Dance. There are so many benefits of quality creative arts programs in schools, with an engagement in the arts proven to increase levels of academic achievement and effective learning outcomes for our young people.
Teaching the arts can be noisy, messy, time consuming, resource intensive and at times, daunting. But we teachers who are involved regularly in arts lessons indicate that the outcomes and changes in our students are so important that the positives significantly outweigh these challenges.
Art Gallery workshops NSW
Kelvin viewing fine art at Art Gallery NSW