The arts are a very important part of the curriculum as dance, drama, music and visual arts, strengthen all areas of oral and written communication and provide more opportunities for creative problem-solving and analytical thinking.
The arts provide students with the knowledge, skills and understandings to express ideas, observations, experiences, values and beliefs. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork.
At ISBergamo, class timetables give ample space to Creative Arts in order to comply with these objectives.
Art Programme- Though art is integrated in the curriculum on a day-to-day basis during the Early Years, a specific Art Lab takes place in school for all children in the Primary Years. Held by Bruno Munari association, these workshops educate children on the sense of touch and the impact of diverting the visual focus and refocusing the tactile. (see the video below)
Music- A Musical Centre is also available in school and music lessons are held by a specialist teacher, trained in teaching music from the Early Years.
Drama- Young children naturally explore their world through dramatic play, taking roles, acting out situations through cooperative play, in order to learn about their world, about themselves and especially about human nature. In the early years, learning through process drama links naturally with the preferred learning styles of children and is thereby integrated as an important part of the curriculum.