Some thoughts on Friday's Aesthetics Day. We shifted Aesthetics Day to the beginning of the year this year with the objective of increasing the pupils' and parents' awareness of the various units in the department to create interest. This is different from the previous years' approach of getting each unit to sum up the academic year in Term 4, showcasing what each had accomplished.
Due to a concurrent meeting in the afternoon, I was not there the whole time to have a closer observation. My immediate sense is that the objective was not really met. As much as we enjoyed the high traffic the whole afternoon due to the CCA Open House, I am not so certain if we caught much attention as a working department. Got to ask my team the next meeting about this. Nevertheless, there is no harm trying. If we don't, we will not know.
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original intent is sound and makes perfect sense.
if the review turns out that the intent was not met, then another strategy could be to incorporate this as part of Sec 1 week 1 curriculum orientation, and have the other units do likewise.
the curriculum orientation can be structured to allow Sec 1 pupils experience, understand and take ownership of the various learning strategies, expectations and assessment of outcomes.
e.g. they will understand that Art will require them to explore their ideas and express them, through artefacts; Science will require them to experiment, observe, infer through enquiry base learning, etc
2 subjects a day for week 1 should suffice.
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