Visual Arts The year began with the key aim of maintaining the smooth delivery of the Visual Arts programme to all year groups in the Preparatory School. After the disruptions caused by start of the global pandemic in 2020, the hope was that there would be few disruptions to the school year. The revised timetabling of Years 7–8 Art lessons continued to prove its worth with each class scheduled to receive eight double period lessons over two semesters. The three and a half week-long Level 4 lockdown in August 2021 did interfere with this timetabling as there was a class swap during that time. Once again, all learning was conducted remotely to all year groups. However, in reviewing the procedure involving individual emailing during the 2020 lockdown, the method of teacher feedback was refined. Instead of emailing correspondence between the students and their Art teacher, the students who completed the online Art lessons received feedback on return to the classroom. All completed artworks were then glued into their Art workbooks as a record of the student’s engagement in the online Art lessons. Teaching and learning Visual Art online required creativity and adaptation of the usual programme to suit the situations families found themselves in during Level 4 and subsequently, in Level 3. All Art classes from Year 1 to Year 8 were designed to accommodate the resources students had at home. The Art teacher now has a considerable bank of online lessons for all levels.
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