1. The arts encourage development by promoting growth by using the
following development skills -
• Fine and gross motor skills
• Problem solving
• Interpretating
• Production of
• Imagination
• Experimentation
• Trial and error.
• Co-operation
• Goal setting
• Using feedback
• Visual and non verbal forms of expression
• Language development
• Express Feelings and ideas.
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2. • Use questioning to support children’s
thinking.
• Allow children to reflect on being the
audience and being the performer.
• Encourage written reflection – This can
organise thoughts. E.g. Journals or reviews.
• Review being positive.

3. • Children begin to understand how they differ from others,
which helps them to develop their identities.
• Children may have impairments which will need to be catered
for and embraced to have meaningful experiences.
• Children we teach will be from a range of backgrounds,
teachers should embrace their cultures in order to validate
and develop their heritage.

4. • Give children opportunities to respond to artworks
• Know your children as individuals – What are their backgrounds and
interests?
• Build awareness and knowledge about the arts.
• Build the arts as a culture in your class
• Use spiral learning – lay down the knowledge
and revisit.
• Build the levels of complexity over time.
• Learn by DOING.
• Use open ended learning structures.
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