The PYP approach to the arts offers more by virtue of its diversity. In TISA your child will learn music, drama and dance as part of our performing arts programme.They will take part in two, fifty minute lessons each week with our specialist performing arts teachers. Our aim is to foster an age-appropriate love of the arts, with a sense of the aesthetic to last beyond school and into adulthood. Our classes enhance children’s everyday skills of communication, coordination, presentation, and confidence. Based around an approach of creating and responding, we allow children to explore their inherent creativity, and express it in a safe and clearly structured environment. We regard performing arts as paramount in developing problem solving, creativity and higher order thinking skills. Classes are organised with warm-up games and songs at the beginning of the class in order to develop eye contact, awareness of others, spatial awareness and tune-in to past lessons. Students spend the rest of the class creating, then responding to their work and the work of others.