To cultivate students’ temperament and enable them to appreciate things from aesthetic perspective.
To help students gain experience, knowledge, skills, values and attitudes in art and aesthetics.
以不同類型的創作及評賞活動，讓學生表達自己的想法和感受。
Curriculum Planning:
Three Learning Areas
To enhance students’ interest in visual arts creation and develop their aesthetic ability through the integration of visual arts knowledge, criticism and creation into the modular theme of art creation and criticism.
Curriculum Features
Modular Teaching
To integrate students’ interest in visual arts and appreciation of visual arts works through a modular teaching design, and to cultivate students’ pursuit of aesthetics in visual arts works.
Criticism for Creativity
To develop students’ aesthetic and analytical skills through understanding art works, and their creativity can thus be enhanced through appreciation.
Learning and Teaching Features
Project-based Learning
Part of the curriculum is conducted in the form of project-based work, in which students explore issues by collecting, selecting, analyzing and summarizing data, and then go through the steps of creating a complete work.
Collaborative Learning
This subject is often conducted in small groups, allowing students to discuss, research and create works together…
In art criticism: students can collaborate to evaluate the works of masters or schoolmates
In art knowledge: students can collaborate to clarify and consolidate the concepts they have learnt
In art creation: students can collaborate to create larger or more complex works
Collaborative learning can help students complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses in the group, so that they can be more motivated and actively involved during the lesson and become the masters of learning
Utilization of Information Technology (IT)
Various types of IT are used to teach different topics. For example, in recent years, the “Flipped Classroom” mini-videos have been introduced to facilitate students to prepare for lessons at home and for self-learning, so as to enhance their learning effectiveness during the lesson in the future.
Direct creation through application programmes (APPs), such as animation and drawing, is used in some topics to enhance students’ motivation and self-confidence in learning.
Cross-curriculum Learning Activities
To develop students’ creative thinking skills through linking relevant forms of artistic expression, e.g. photography, music, etc.
To collaborate with Mathematics and Science subjects in designing the S.T.E.A.M. programme and students can thus be cultivated creativity and aesthetic sense in life.
Life-wide Learning
To provide different types of visual arts activities for developing students’ self-learning ability and correct their attitude towards art.
To increase the opportunities for students to appreciate and exchange their creative ideas through the online exhibition of students’ works.
To invite professionals/alumni to give talks on the design industry/further studies.
To encourage interested and potential students to participate in different types of off-campus competitions, activities, visits and art services for life-wide learning, so as to broaden their horizons and increase their exposure to the arts.
Visual Arts for New Senior Secondary
The curriculum emphasizes visual arts criticism and visual arts creation as learning highlights. The four learning objectives of the curriculum include nurturing students’ creativity and imagination, developing students’ skills and processes, developing students’ ability to evaluate art, and enabling them to understand art in context.
During the three years of senior secondary study, students are required to demonstrate their criticism and creativity in individual portfolios, in addition to sitting for public examinations.
Awards and Achievements
Public Examination Results
Over the years, the results of the HKDSE Examination in the subject have been very good, with the percentage of passes at all levels above the Hong Kong average, and 35.7% of the students achieved Level 4 or above.
