Aldar Education’s The Pearl Academy is inspiring its pupils to get creative in their homes – by staging its first-ever E-learning Creative Arts Week.
Starting from Sunday, April 19, the week-long celebration of the arts aims to encourage The Pearl Academy’s young students to learn and practice a new creative medium and keep students engaged during the current period of distance learning.
Children aged between three and 11 will be able to access eight virtual art studios – each focusing on a different area of the creative arts; fashion and textiles, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography and Islamic art.
In each studio, children will be able to find workshops in each the different areas which will give them a virtual introduction to an artist or a style of art.
The workshops have been carefully designed to use items and art equipment that would generally be available in the average household.
Once the children have completed assignments in their workshop of choice, they are encouraged to photograph the finished masterpieces and upload the image into an online art gallery.
Abigail Fishbourne, Principal of The Pearl Academy, said: “Our biggest priority has always been to ensure that our students – even from the age of three-years-old – are not only happy and secure but that they receive a learning experience that is both progressive and innovative.
“Now, more than ever, we must find an opportunity in every challenge and explore new modes of teaching while taking advantage of technology to enhance the educational experience.
“While subjects such as the arts have traditionally been taught in a physical setting, we must find innovative ways to keep children engaged and we hope our online Creative Arts Week will do just that.
“The aim is to make this resource available for other schools to use with their children and, fingers crossed, to add more workshops so that as many pupils and faculty can engage with this online virtual arts resource during this distance learning phase.”
The Pearl Academy, which opened in 2007, is a British curriculum private school which caters to 645 students. It was awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating in all areas of educational provision following the latest inspection by the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK).
Redefining the delivery of education, Aldar Education is committed to educating the whole child holistically and beyond the academic learning experience.
