What is Visual Art for Junior Cert?

Visual Art at junior cycle aims to provide the student with a set of personal attitudes and qualities as well as skills and processes and a sense of the aesthetic. Through practical engagement in the areas of art, craft and design students will develop self-confidence, inquisitiveness, imagination, and creativity.

What is visual art curriculum?

The visual arts curriculum comprises interrelated activities in making art and in looking at and responding to art. It presents a range of activities in perceiving, exploring, responding to and appreciating the visual world.

What syllabus does NSW use?

Teachers and schools in NSW are implementing the Australian curriculum by using the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum.

How many strands are there in visual arts curriculum?

six strands
The Visual arts curriculum is for children from junior infants to sixth class. The curriculum consists of six strands: Drawing.

What is visual art in school?

Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of visual arts, develop skills, techniques and processes, and use materials as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts.

Does NSW follow the Australian Curriculum?

NSW will implement the Australian curriculum through new syllabuses. The Board of Studies will provide notification and information about changes to NSW syllabuses as they are approved by the NSW Minister for Education.

Which syllabus is followed in Australia?

The Australian Curriculum is a national curriculum for all primary and secondary schools in Australia under progressive development, review, and implementation. The curriculum is developed and reviewed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, an independent statutory body.

What do visual arts classes do?

It provides intensive work with various drawing skills and media while introducing students to the basic vocabulary of art and design. Specific topics covered include drawing, color, architecture, painting, photography, graphics, printmaking, and sculpture.