Arts: Wake County Public School System (https://www.wcpss.net/what-we-teach/academics/arts.html)
The Arts Education Program provides a variety of classes in Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts. The curriculum is based on the North Carolina Essential Standards and the belief that the arts are basic to every classroom experience and life-long learning. At the elementary level students explore music and visual art. Magnet schools offer additional electives in dance, instrumental music (band, strings), and theatre. At the middle and high school levels more electives become available in each of the arts areas for students to expand their technical and artistic skills.
Study in the Arts helps students develop skills in creativity, communication, collaboration, making connections, analysis, critique, problem solving, and self-discipline.
Parents can help students make real world connections to the arts by talking with them about their classroom experiences, participating in their school-based activities, and attending arts events in the community.
Overview
Rigorous arts classes focus on technical skill development, creativity, and artistic appreciation. Students share their work at school and in the community through all-county performing festivals and visual arts displays. Along with the Wake Education Partnership and the City of Raleigh Arts Commission, the Arts Education Department of the Wake County Public School System produces Pieces of Gold/Gifts of Gold annually – a celebration of the arts showcasing the creative excellence of Arts Education in our schools.
Arts Education encompasses a broad range of experiences related directly to literacy skills in Math, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. Students who learn how to read music, compose choreography, create visual art, and calculate and execute theatrical designs are able to transfer their skills into their other classroom experiences.
Arts education in the WCPSS encompasses a sequential program in visual arts, dance, music, and theatre. Lessons focus on critical thinking and problem solving, creative self-expression, and aesthetic awareness. The program is based on the belief that the arts are basic and add richness to an individual’s life.
North Carolina Standard Course of study (http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/acre/standards/new-standards/#arts)
Visual Arts
From the beginning of time, the compulsion to create a visual vocabulary has been as innate in every society as the desire to acquire a system of spoken symbols. Visual art from past civilizations is frequently one of the few remaining clues with the power to illuminate which values were held most dear. Today, every aspect of our designed environment will serve to explain who we are to those of the future. The pattern of human growth in society is to develop a multi-sensory means of communicating symbols and values. A child discovers objects, those objects take on meaning, and this meaning is denoted and communicated through the various means of expression available to that child. The visual arts program is designed to develop visual literacy by promoting fluency in the various modes of visual communication. Students learn the visual arts by using a wide range of subject matter, media, and means to express their ideas, emotions, and knowledge. They evaluate the merits of their efforts and this assessment forms the basis for further growth that extends to all disciplines in school and to life. Visual arts education is a multifaceted creative process which includes the development of perceptual awareness and the ability to use materials expressively. Through participation in visual arts, students have the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the creativity and diversity inherent in all of us.
standards for Visual Arts K-8: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/standards/new-standards/arts/visual/k-8.pdf
Visual Arts Courses offered at FVMS include:
6th grade Visual Arts Exploratory
7th grade Painting
8th grade Sculpture
The Arts Education Program provides a variety of classes in Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts. The curriculum is based on the North Carolina Essential Standards and the belief that the arts are basic to every classroom experience and life-long learning. At the elementary level students explore music and visual art. Magnet schools offer additional electives in dance, instrumental music (band, strings), and theatre. At the middle and high school levels more electives become available in each of the arts areas for students to expand their technical and artistic skills.
Study in the Arts helps students develop skills in creativity, communication, collaboration, making connections, analysis, critique, problem solving, and self-discipline.
Parents can help students make real world connections to the arts by talking with them about their classroom experiences, participating in their school-based activities, and attending arts events in the community.
Overview
Rigorous arts classes focus on technical skill development, creativity, and artistic appreciation. Students share their work at school and in the community through all-county performing festivals and visual arts displays. Along with the Wake Education Partnership and the City of Raleigh Arts Commission, the Arts Education Department of the Wake County Public School System produces Pieces of Gold/Gifts of Gold annually – a celebration of the arts showcasing the creative excellence of Arts Education in our schools.
Arts Education encompasses a broad range of experiences related directly to literacy skills in Math, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. Students who learn how to read music, compose choreography, create visual art, and calculate and execute theatrical designs are able to transfer their skills into their other classroom experiences.
Arts education in the WCPSS encompasses a sequential program in visual arts, dance, music, and theatre. Lessons focus on critical thinking and problem solving, creative self-expression, and aesthetic awareness. The program is based on the belief that the arts are basic and add richness to an individual’s life.
North Carolina Standard Course of study (http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/acre/standards/new-standards/#arts)
Visual Arts
From the beginning of time, the compulsion to create a visual vocabulary has been as innate in every society as the desire to acquire a system of spoken symbols. Visual art from past civilizations is frequently one of the few remaining clues with the power to illuminate which values were held most dear. Today, every aspect of our designed environment will serve to explain who we are to those of the future. The pattern of human growth in society is to develop a multi-sensory means of communicating symbols and values. A child discovers objects, those objects take on meaning, and this meaning is denoted and communicated through the various means of expression available to that child. The visual arts program is designed to develop visual literacy by promoting fluency in the various modes of visual communication. Students learn the visual arts by using a wide range of subject matter, media, and means to express their ideas, emotions, and knowledge. They evaluate the merits of their efforts and this assessment forms the basis for further growth that extends to all disciplines in school and to life. Visual arts education is a multifaceted creative process which includes the development of perceptual awareness and the ability to use materials expressively. Through participation in visual arts, students have the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the creativity and diversity inherent in all of us.
standards for Visual Arts K-8: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/standards/new-standards/arts/visual/k-8.pdf
Visual Arts Courses offered at FVMS include:
6th grade Visual Arts Exploratory
7th grade Painting
8th grade Sculpture