Seychelles Secondary 3 School Syllabus - Art and Design

This syllabus is based on the Cambridge International Lower Secondary Art and Design Curriculum Framework ( It aims to develop students' creativity, aesthetic sensitivity, critical awareness and skills through visual inquiry and art-making activities.

Curriculum Aims

The curriculum aims to help learners:

• See themselves as artists and become increasingly independent and reflective.
• Develop the skills needed to express creative ideas and communicate visually.
• Understand their place and the place of others in an interconnected, creative and innovative world.
• Make informed decisions about creative practices and products and about the art and design they encounter, engage with and generate.
• Understand the role of the creative arts in society.
• Analyze and reflect on issues and creative ideas, practices and outputs from different perspectives.

Curriculum Strands

The curriculum is organized into four interconnected strands:

1. Experiencing: Learners encounter, sense, experiment with, and respond to a wide range of sources, including art from different times and cultures. They explore media, materials, tools, technologies, and processes, gathering and recording experiences and visual information.

2. Making: Learners develop skills in using various media, materials, tools, technologies, and processes, selecting appropriate resources for specific purposes. They learn to apply formal elements like line, shape, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition.

3. Reflecting: Learners celebrate artistic experiences and learning. They analyze, critique, and connect their own and others' work as part of the artistic process. This includes developing the ability to provide constructive feedback and engage in artistic dialogue.

4. Thinking and Working Artistically: Learners generate, develop, create, innovate, and communicate ideas by connecting the artistic processes of experiencing, making, and reflecting. They embrace challenges and opportunities, working with growing independence, and review and refine their own work. This involves developing visual journals to document their artistic process, including research, experimentation, and reflection.

Progression through Secondary 3 (Stage 9)

Learners are expected to demonstrate increasing independence, skill, and critical awareness in their artistic work. They should be able to:

• Experiencing: Research and explore art from different times and cultures, demonstrating the influence of this research in their own work. Record reflective responses and interpretations in their visual journals.
• Making: Demonstrate competence and sensitivity in handling selected media and explain their choices using art-specific vocabulary. Experiment with sophisticated techniques and processes.
• Reflecting: Provide informed responses during evaluations of their own and others' work, demonstrating an understanding of the artistic process and the impact of choices on the final outcome.
• Thinking and Working Artistically: Demonstrate originality and a purposeful use of the entire artistic process in their work. Solve problems creatively and independently, justifying their artistic choices. Use visual journals to document their process of review and refinement.