Art Department
“Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
— PABLO PICASSO
Our Aims
The aims of the Art Department are to develop creativity within our students, and to allow them to express themselves in a wide range of artistic media. Alongside developing an artistic skill set, we want our students to enjoy Art lessons and we wish to provide a fun ‘recreational’ lesson, where students can escape from the pressures of the more academic subjects and be allowed to explore their creative selves. We also want our students to develop an appreciation for the Arts, both ancient and modern, as well as to critique pieces objectively.
Our Curriculum
In KS3, the students will study art history, art critique, aesthetics, and focus more on art production. We will continuously develop our students’ appreciation, exploration, and curiosity about the arts while exploring various drawing materials, techniques and subjects. The students will enhance their observation and accuracy skills as they progress through a variety of assignments such as still-life drawing, landscape, figure studies, portraiture, and painting. A wide range of drawing and painting media may be used, such as graphite, charcoal, ink, pastel, oil pastel, colour pencils, acrylic and water colour.
IGCSE Art and Design is a popular option at Key Stage 4, achieving excellent results, well above the world average. It is a key choice amongst our more creative students. At Sri KDU international School, we focus more on traditional skills such as observational, still-life and portraiture, but students can explore expressionism and sculpture as well if desired.
We visited numerous international schools in Klang-Valley and Sri KDU Subang Jaya was not even on our list. Reason being it is way out of our travelling radius. However, we are glad we made the visit to the school before our final call, and it was the best decision ever! It was a huge transition period for us during the first 2 weeks into school, but the school’s team (Teachers, Administrative and Parent’s Teacher Association) made us feel right at home. We were given clear guidance and was kept well informed on the happenings in the school. My daughter blended into the community quite well with the care provided by the Homeroom teacher. All the teachers here are the kindest, as she told me. She looks forward to going to school and has become more disciplined in terms on knowing what tasks she needs to complete daily. She has gained so much confidence during this short period of time and was given the encouragement to explore and develop her abilities here. She was just selected as the new Primary House Captain for Year 6 AY2022/2023.
Every parent want to find the ‘perfect’ school for their child and are afraid of making the wrong decision. For us, as long she is safe and happy, we believe, she will eventually find the way to her own success.