Our Curriculum
Explore how our art and music curriculum builds skills and appreciation progressively from Primary One to Six.
Our Curriculum
Every student goes through a broad-based Art and Music curriculum crafted in close alignment to MOE’s overarching learning objectives.
Art Curriculum
Art Curriculum Overview for each term for Primary 1 - Primary 6 levels.
Levels | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 |
P1 | People and Places All About Me! Exploring self-identity through relief assemblage of significant recycled materials | Environment (Natural World) What Animal Represents Me? Creation of 3D clay model of an animal that represents you with clear demonstration of attachment of basic forms | Experiences and Emotions My Feelings Responding to music through mark-making skills with analysis of feelings associated to them | Free studio sessions and portfolio curations |
P2 | Time and Space In My Neighbourhood Exploring space and balance through understanding foreground, middleground and background through an artwork of your neighbourhood . | Environment (Natural World) The View from my Window Retelling a story of your favourite Singaporean scene through a landscape artwork depicting a view from your window. | Environment (Natural) My Abstract Animal Creation of abstract animal paper collage through exploration of drawing with scissors | |
P3 | People and Places Honesty Starts with Me!
| Time and Space Cultural Performances in SG Collaboration with a group to create a soundscape and visual of a selected cultural performance. | Natural World Save Our Earth Collaboration with classmates to create an installation artwork that sends a message about sustainability and environmental issues | |
P4 | Experiences and Emotions My Surrealist Dreams Exploration of Surrealism techniques and introduction to Canva workspace | People and Places My Family Experimentation with paper techniques to create abstract paper sculptures of Family | Time and Space A Day in My Classroom Tonal value exploration to depict personal experiences in your classroom | |
P5 | People and Places Messages from the Streets Creation of a collaborative mural artwork that champions a selected social cause | Experiences and Emotions My Feelings & Relationships Sculpting a clay form that encapsulates a relationship and its emotions | Time and Space Singapore in the Future Collaboration with a group to create a 1 minute stop motion video envisioning Singapore’s Future | |
P6 | People and Places People of Singapore Photojournalism and photo series curation based on theme of choice | Experiences and Emotions The Day I Felt… Creation of a final cubist artwork that represents a significant memory/emotion through use of shape, colour and dominance | Environment (Natural World) Art and Nature Play and experiment with natural found objects to create transient art |
Music Curriculum
Music Curriculum Overview for each term for Primary 1 - Primary 6 levels.
Level | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 |
P1-2 | Building Musical Foundations | Exploring Rhythmic Composition | Exploring Melody and Music Composition Creating and performing melodic ostinatos on resonators bars/bells | Exploring Soundscapes and Ensemble Music-Making Creating and performing soundscape through classroom instruments and ensemble music making using boomwhackers. |
P3 | Melodic Performance and Composition Creating and performing melodies on Orff Xylophone | Western Orchestra and Soundscape using GarageBand Exposure and appreciation of Western Classical Music and Cultural soundscape using GarageBand (collaboration with Art) | Ukulele Develop ukulele instrumental proficiency by learning chords and TABS | Javanese Gamelan Exposure and appreciation of Javanese Gamelan music by performing on virtual instruments |
P4 | Orff Xylophone ensemble Develop instrumental proficiency on the xylophone through ensemble playing and group performances | Ukulele Develop ukulele instrumental proficiency by learning chords and TABS | Pop song arrangement (National day song) using GarageBand Exploring digital audio workstations (DAWs) to arrange popular music | Philippine music Surround soundscape Creating immersive soundscapes to represent different environments and moods |
P5 | STOMP Creating and performing in a percussion ensemble | Cambodian Music
| Exploration of Singapore Music Exposure and appreciation of the music in Singapore through listening, singing and performing? | Environment Advertisement Creating a jingle and rap for an advertisement using GarageBand |
P6 | Musicals | Oceanic Music Discovering the musical traditions of Oceania through the ukulele | Pop Song cover (singing, ukulele, making beats on GarageBand) Creating and performing pop song covers through singing, ukulele playing, and digital music production | Brazilian Music Discovering Brazilian musical traditions through drumming |