The Department of Arts and Sports
The Department of Arts and Sports aims at providing students the learning experiences in Music, Physical Education and Visual Arts, and developing students’ talent in these areas. Numerous activities have been initiated by the Department, including Garbage Revolution, Annual Concert, TKO Joint Schools Concert and Sports Day.
Visual Arts
Mission/Aims
Visual Arts cultivates creativity, imagination and innovation. It enables students to experience and communicate through the use of visual elements, different materials and processes. We aim at enriching students’ enjoyment and appreciation towards art-making experiences, developing their own talents and techniques, increasing their knowledge towards different artists’ contextual backgrounds, and exploring their own unique ways of expressing their ideas.We apply various teaching and learning strategies in teaching visual arts, so as to foster students to engage in their exploring journey of inquiry, investigation, reflection and creative application in visual arts.
Objectives
- To sharpen students’ abilities of observation, imagination and invention by visual languages and visual forms.
- To foster students to explore alternative means of arts production through learning about visual culture and various methods of arts creation.
- To experience and analyse the arts and culture of the motherland and different parts of the world.
- To express ideas, feelings and experiences in visual forms and with imagination, enjoyment and a sense of fulfilment.
- To improve students’ ability to control materials, tools and techniques.
- To increase students’ critical awareness of the roles and purposes of art and design in different times and cultures.
- To develop increasing confidence in the use of visual and tactile elements and materials.
- To foster an enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and a knowledge of artists, craftspeople and designers.
International Baccalaureate Visual Art Exhibition
Music
Curriculum
Students at G.T. College are surrounded by music. General music classes are scheduled for G7 – 9 students twice a week, aiming at developing creativity, nurturing aesthetic and cultural understandings to pursue a life-long enjoyment of this form of art. With these objectives clearly stated, a diversified and balanced curriculum with integrated music activities, such as performing, creating and listening, are provided.
Musically gifted students are also given the chance to enrol in the Accelerated & Enrichment Class, which aims at further development in music appreciation, musicianship, music composition and arts administration.
G.T. College Music Department also provides co-curricular performance-related activities for our students through Talent Class courses and after-school music programmes. These activities provide students with opportunities to participate in groups, such as Chamber Orchestra, and College Junior Choir and G.T. A cappella which are all directed by the members of the department.
Besides, we explore the diversity of the arts across time, culture and contexts, express ideas creativity and with competence in forms appropriate to the artistic discipline. Our school offers both IB and DSE Music programmes. Many of our music graduates continued their studies in music at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in world-renowned universities.
We also encourage our students to attend local and international music competitions, such as Hong Kong School Music Festival, The Hong Kong-Asia Piano Open Competition, to enhance their musical skills and techniques through practice and observation, cultivating their self-confidence through performance. All these initiatives are aimed at widening students’ global outlook.
Objectives
Sian Lee (G11A) is a comprehensive young singer and composer and she will launched her personal EP this year.
Our music program focus on multiple intelligences development, we had launched different kinds of music concert for students to enhance their performance and stage management skills.
Physical Education
Introduction
Physical Education is “education through the physical”. It aims to develop students’ physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use these to perform in a wide range of activities associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops students’ confidence and generic skills, especially those of collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking and aesthetic appreciation. These, together with the nurturing of positive values and attitudes in PE, provide a good foundation for students’ lifelong and life-wide learning.
Curriculum
Physical education is part of the school curriculum. Its overall aim is to help students to develop an active life-style and acquire good health, physical fitness, and bodily co-ordination by means of teaching them various sports skills and knowledge. It further helps to promote the qualities of desirable moral behaviours, co-operation in communal life, the ability of making decisions, and the appreciation of aesthetic movements.
 Sports Sunday |
Attempt a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS |
