Art education at San Silvestre aims to provide every student from Early Years to the International Baccalaureate with a platform to express their feelings and ideas about the world they live in with creativity and originality. Research demonstrates that the Arts are crucial for creating well-rounded, well-prepared learners and leaders. We weave the arts into our core classroom curricula as well as teaching specific artistic skills and abilities.

Why learn Art at San Silvestre?

• The arts help our learners to develop creative problem-solving skills.
• Art helps our students to develop motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness.
• Art education boost critical thinking and it teaches our students to be meticulous and to observe.
• The arts teach our learners about colour, perspective, and balance: all techniques that are necessary in presentations of academic work.
• The arts provide challenges for all our learners - at all levels.
• The arts can make difficult concepts visual, thereby making them easier for our students to understand.
• Art education connects our students intimately with their culture and with the wider world.

Our teachers of Art collaborate to bring together a wealth of knowledge and understanding about Peruvian and world cultures, art movements, techniques and Art History. The girls have opportunities to visit Museums, Art Galleries; local Artists are invited to come to school, to share their art and to demonstrate techniques.

All teachers of Art employ a wide range of teaching strategies and techniques to correspond with our students’ preferred learning styles thus facilitating emotional and intellectual growth, and creative expression.  

Students acquire and employ a wide range of visual arts vocabulary thereby enabling them to speak confidently about their work and the work of others.