Opening Addresses
In this excerpt, Mdm Ang reminded AEP students that they are very privileged to be part of the programme, and compared it to the reality of the situation in other government schools. Here she gave an example where students of another school had to bring their younger siblings to school with them because their parents were unable to hire a helper to assist with the family.
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Transcript written by Yuqin:
Good morning Guests, teachers and friends.
Today, I'll be sharing my experiences in the past four years as a student in the Art Elective Programme.
Personally, I've loved art since as long as I can remember, so naturally I was elated to be accepted into AEP in secondary 1. I remember feeling incredibly excited and hopeful for the programme and what it would entail, and it has never once fallen short of my expectations. Through my time in AEP, I have gained many valuable takeaways, and it's overall been an enriching experience for my peers and myself.
It makes me glad that, although art is often treated as less important than more strictly academic subjects, the school and MOE has still invested so much into helping people with a passion in art to pursue it to further heights.
With the society in Singapore changing to become increasingly art literate, I hope to one day contribute to this change, to be part of this legacy, to help bring the creative arts scene to greater heights, and I think AEP has been tremendously helpful in helping me do so, by equipping me with so much that I hope I can use to positively direct the future. Thus, I am grateful to the school management and MOE for giving us the opportunity to be part of AEP, for supporting our growth as artists and as people, and proud call myself a student of the Art Elective Programme.
We are very excited to be part of today's celebrations, and hope you all have a good time!
Thank you.
Today, I'll be sharing my experiences in the past four years as a student in the Art Elective Programme.
Personally, I've loved art since as long as I can remember, so naturally I was elated to be accepted into AEP in secondary 1. I remember feeling incredibly excited and hopeful for the programme and what it would entail, and it has never once fallen short of my expectations. Through my time in AEP, I have gained many valuable takeaways, and it's overall been an enriching experience for my peers and myself.
- Support in terms of providing a rich diversity of useful resources for our use
- Huge range materials from paper to paints to even wood and cardboard
- Mac Lab, scanner, printer
- never restricted by resources
- Encouraged to experiment with various mediums, expanded our artistic freedom
- Guidance from teachers/curriculum
- teachers have provided valuable guidance, helping us sort out our thoughts and ideas for artworks, suggesting directions in which we can take our work
- Ample room for creativity and individual ideas, personal insight encouraged
- especially grateful to this as schoolwork in general can often get kind of stifling and dry
- AEP provides an avenue through which I've been able to work creatively, to put my personal ideas and feelings into artworks, where there's a lot more than one right answer
- I clearly remember one incident last year, where we were meant to design cards based on an artist in out syllabus's works, but I interpreted the instructions for the task quite differently from my classmates and ended up designing a completely unrelated set of cards. When I realised what I had done, I initially panicked and thought I had committed a grievous error, but our teacher actually accepted it and even gave it a very high mark --> this could never have happened in another subject
- Opportunities
- to contribute back to school, designing logos for lsc t-shirts each year, umbrellas for 95th anniversary celebrations, making chinese new year cards for key stakeholders of school
- to enter exhibitions/competitions e.g. national day exhibition (watercolour artwork assignment), as well as exhibitions where we can showcase our ideas and artworks, like the SYF and AEP exhibitions
It makes me glad that, although art is often treated as less important than more strictly academic subjects, the school and MOE has still invested so much into helping people with a passion in art to pursue it to further heights.
With the society in Singapore changing to become increasingly art literate, I hope to one day contribute to this change, to be part of this legacy, to help bring the creative arts scene to greater heights, and I think AEP has been tremendously helpful in helping me do so, by equipping me with so much that I hope I can use to positively direct the future. Thus, I am grateful to the school management and MOE for giving us the opportunity to be part of AEP, for supporting our growth as artists and as people, and proud call myself a student of the Art Elective Programme.
We are very excited to be part of today's celebrations, and hope you all have a good time!
Thank you.