The curriculum for Visual Arts 7 focuses on: ● expanding each learner’s knowledge base ● building skills in visual arts to provide learners with the necessary tools for self-expression ● extending the range of visual arts strategies each learner uses to construct meaning ● extending the range of situations that each learner can create, interpret, and respond to ● providing consistent challenge and support as learners engage with and develop the competencies of: communication, critical thinking, personal and career development, creativity and innovation, technological fluency, and citizenship
For access to the Grade 7 Visual Art Curriculum please click here.
The Nova Scotia Education System has recently created and implemented a renewed curriculum with a focus on project based learning and inquiry based learning. Inquiry-based learning is an approach that promotes inquiry, the creation of ideas, and observation and Project-based learning asks students to learn through practical projects that require them to acquire a thorough understanding of the subject that they can apply in the real world.
Assessments Students will engage in both assessments of learning and for learning. Assessment for learning helps teachers and students know where they are and where they need to go in order to meet the expectations. Assessment of learning happens at the end of particular section of study and demonstrates how thoroughly a concept is understood. As such, students are provided will multiple opportunities to show their learning through activities. Students’ achievement of the outcomes will be assessed using a 1-4 point rubric. This information will be used to calculate a percentage grade for each strand at the end of each term.
Students and their parents are strongly encouraged to keep track of their progress by using the Parent Portal of PowerSchool which is accessible on the Parent tab of the OPA website and by adding themselves to the Google Classrooms created by each teacher.
Please contact the main office if you need information to access this portal. Please contact Ms. Nicky Golding at 902 889-4300 to obtain your username and password.