Fine Arts
PK-8 Fine Arts
Fine Art Department Mission Statement
The mission of the Westborough Public Schools’ Fine Arts Department is to provide an integrated arts education through a dynamic K-12 curriculum and engaging aesthetic experiences. We encourage exploration, critical and reflective thinking, as well as hands-on learning, fostering a lifelong relationship with the arts.
The core values of the K-12 Fine Arts Department include:
- Collaboration: Working with students, families, and colleagues to provide unique opportunities and experiences.
- Community: Cultivating a feeling of fellowship with others through shared attitudes, feelings, and goals.
- Creativity: Promoting the use of imagination and original ideas in the production of artistic work.
- Excellence: Setting a high standard of quality for both students and staff.
Learning Expectations
Visual Arts
Visual Arts students are expected to:
- Apply the elements and principles of art in their work
- Apply a broad range of two and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes
- Apply creative thinking by observing, analyzing, inventing, and expressing ideas
- Apply critical thinking by observing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating their artwork and the artwork of others
- Make connections between the visual arts and other disciplines
- Describe the purpose and meaning of art as it relates to cultures and historical periods
Theatre Arts
Theatre Arts students are expected to:
- Apply the dramatic elements to portray characters in scripted and improvised scenes
- Apply creative thinking by reading, analyzing, and writing dramatic works
- Rehearse and stage dramatic works
- Demonstrate skills in the basic tools, media, and techniques of theatrical production
- Describe and analyze their own theatrical work and the work of others using appropriate theatre vocabulary
- Describe the purpose and meaning of theatre as it relates to other disciplines.
Music
Music students are expected to:
- Apply the elements of music in performance and/or composition
- Sing and play alone and with others a varied repertoire of music
- Read and notate music
- Listen to, analyze, describe, and evaluate music and musical performances
- Apply creative thinking by analyzing, expressing, inventing, and interpreting ideas.
- Describe the purpose and meaning of music as it relates to cultures and historical periods
PK-3 Fine Arts Curriculum Documents