FINE ARTS

At CIS, our students work with art and music specialist teachers to develop their artistic skills and set creative goals.

Creating a Reggio-Style Classroom

Learners develop different art techniques such as collage, painting, tessellation, 3D modelling and pencil drawing within a Reggio Emilia style classroom environment, underpinning their knowledge and exploring different outcomes.

GRADE 2 : Collage Creatures

Collages demonstrating that complex shapes can be created by combining a series of simple shapes.

Desert Landscapes

Painted drawings using warm colours and depicting the warm desert landscape.

GRADE 3 : Drawing With Scissors

Abstract collages inspired by the work of Marc Chagall.

GRADE 3 : Ink Creatures
Accidental drawings built from spilled ink.

GRADE 4 : Profile Companions
Profile portraiture depicting a relationship between two figures.

GRADE 4 : Faces
Charcoal portraits exploring value range and proportional drawing.

GRADE 5 : Dalinian Animals 
Surrealistic Dali inspired animals in watercolour. 

GRADE 6 : Islamic Arabesque Design 
Complex Islamic Arabesque pattern on tooling foil. 

Grade 7 : Stop Motion Animation 
60 second Stop Motion Animation. 

Grade 8 : Musical Paper Sculpture
Paper sculptures based off a musical composition. 

Grade 9 : Plaster Relief Sculpture
Acrylic and Gypsum Plaster relief sculptures. 

Grade 10 : Interior or Exterior 2 Point Perspective
An interior or exterior space is created using 2-point perspective digitally or on paper. 

Grade 11 : Reduction Self Portrait
Self-portrait created using the reduction process (eraser on charcoal). 

Grade 12 : Multiples Sculpture
Sculpture with a message made from multiples of one object. 

Kindergarten: KG 1 and 2 music is an exploratory Reggio based program along with teacher-led songs, games and dances. The goal of music in Kindergarten is to LOVE music. We do this while learning to sing in a group, match pitch and become familiar with instruments and the sounds they make. Centres-based creative play is one of the primary strategies in Kindergarten music with opportunities to perform puppet shows, listen and draw, dance to classical music and create compositions using notation.

Grade 1-3: Music in Grades 1-3 moves more toward an Orff based program. Students learn songs with instrumental accompaniments and corresponding dances. They also learn more advanced rhythmic notation and more complex songs. Students have the opportunity to compose and improvise on instruments and create their own dances along with Reggio based centres as well.