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2020/04/27 by Natalie

RMS’ Virtual Visual Arts

Two students displaying their tape art projects — Two students displaying their tape visual art projects

Virtual Visual Arts Featuring Tape Art with Household Materials!

Recently, our Visual Arts teacher conducted a creative Virtual Visual Arts project, featuring tape art, with students from kindergarten to grade 8! Tape art is an artwork created with adhesive tapes such as duct tape or packing tape. It developed from urban art in the 1960s, as an alternative to the widespread use of spray can art in the urban art scene. The tape is used to produce a “stained glass” effect when applied to glass or plastic. The tape art is then attached to a wall to form the outline of an image or can be shaped into three-dimensional sculptures.

Students from kindergarten to all grades will enjoy using tape while creating their art masterpieces. This activity encourages fine motor skills, compositional choices, creative thinking, and more. Children and adults will enjoy this craft activity that can be done at home. All you need are some supplies, including tape, acrylic or water-based paints, and a thick piece of construction paper. Our students put together a video of their Tape Art from last week’s lesson.

Virtual Visual Arts at Rowntree

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2020/04/10 by Natalie

RMS’ Little Van Goghs

Little Van Gogh’s Hard at Work!

Learning is more effective when the students are having fun!!

Some of our Senior Kindergarten students recently learned about the Post-Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands in 1883. Some of his famous paintings include The Starry Night, Sunflowers and Cafe Terrace at Night.

Students worked in a group and created their own masterpiece by mixing together various colours to see what different colour combinations they could develop, using some water-based paints.

This is another great project that younger and older children can work on at home. All you need are some colourful water-based or acrylic paints, some construction paper or a canvas and a paintbrush or two. It’s easy to tie a bit of a history lesson into this art lesson by talking about some Post-Impressionist artists like Van Gogh and Rembrandt. For some ideas on Post-Impressionist art projects that your children can work on from home, please click here.

Have fun!

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2020/03/17 by Natalie

A Walk through the Seasons with Art

A student's artwork of Van Gogh's Starry Nights — RMS offers a robust Arts Programme to all of our students

Art is Part of a Balanced Academic Programme

Looking for a balanced academic programme for your children that includes a robust Arts programme? Look no further. At Rowntree Montessori Schools, an Education in the arts is essential to students’ intellectual, social, physical, and emotional growth and well-being. Experiences in the arts – in dance, drama, music, and visual arts – play a valuable role in helping students to achieve their potential as learners and to participate fully in their community and in society as a whole. Watch a wonderful video from our Central Park Prep Campus, celebrating the Arts.

A Walk Through the Seasons

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Rowntree Montessori Schools wins Top Choice Award for Brampton Private School for 6th consecutive year

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2020/02/18 by Natalie

Why Art is Important in Education

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Celebrating the Arts at Rowntree Montessori Schools

A Beautiful Display of our Students' Art — Some of our students art on display during our Festival of the Arts

At Rowntree Montessori Schools, we celebrate the Arts! Studies have shown that there are numerous benefits gained from integrating the Arts into a child’s education. These benefits include:

Working in the arts helps learners to develop creative problem-solving skills.
Teaching through the arts can present difficult concepts visually, making them easier to understand.
Art instruction helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness.
Visual arts teach learners about colour, layout, perspective, and balance, all techniques that are necessary for presentations (visual, digital) of academic work.
Integrating art with other disciplines reaches students who might not otherwise be engaged in classwork.
Arts experiences boost critical thinking, teaching students to take the time to be more careful and thorough in how they observe the world.
The arts provide challenges for learners at all levels.
Art education connects students with their own culture as well as with the wider world.
A report by Americans for the Arts states that young people who participate regularly in the arts (three hours a day on three days each week through one full year) are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, to participate in a math and science fair, or to win an award for writing an essay or poem than children who do not participate.

Check out some of the Arts projects our students have been working on this year.

Arts at Rowntree Montessori School

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2019/02/20 by Natalie

Learning through Performance

Recently the students at the Academy Campus from Kindergarten Montessori to Grade 4 had the privilege of watching a live performance of the Paper Bag Princess, a much-loved story by Canadian children’s author Robert Munsch. This spellbinding production was brought to the school by the “To Be Determined Theatre Company.” This group that has been touring youth focused theatre in Ontario, for the last eight years.

The production embodies the message of Grit, Teamwork, Kindness and Patience. Some of these values are fast diminishing from today’s society, and this production surely delivered these valuable messages. For example, through the kidnapping of Prince Ronald, who Elizabeth and Emily really cared for they realize that putting aside their differences and working together was the only way to free Ronald from the dungeon. Through their journey they learned to be empathetic, kind and patient with each other.

Instilling these morals at a young age is one of many responsibilities that we as adults, parents and educators have in our fast-paced, ever-changing world. Finding interesting ways to inculcate these morals ensures that students will embrace these morals. This fascinating theatrical production of the Paper Bag Princess most certainly succeeded in bringing these moral values out loud and clear, leaving our students absolutely mesmerized! Plus we are now celebrating the Festival of the Arts, so learning values through performance is perfectly in line with what we are celebrating this week.

To learn more about Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS), continue browsing our website and ideally drop by any of our welcoming, friendly and family oriented campuses for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm. If you prefer, call to book an appointment for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm.

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2019/02/11 by Natalie

WEEKEND Open House Sat February 23rd (11am-3pm) featuring our Arts Programme

Come and discover the opportunity you can provide your child to succeed Now and in their Future. Our Weekend Private School Open House is the perfect opportunity to tour our campuses and meet our teachers, particularly if you are unable to take advantage of our Open House ANYTIME opportunity. It’s your chance to see our campuses when it might be more convenient for you! We will be highlighting our Arts programme.

Take just a few minutes to come by our Private School Open House on Saturday February 23rd (11am-3pm) at our welcoming, friendly and family oriented campuses. Discover the opportunity and possibilities for your child to love learning and excel. Your visit could be your first step in empowering your child’s journey towards their dreams!

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Virtual Visual Arts Featuring Tape Art with Household Materials!

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Little Van Gogh’s Hard at Work!

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Art is Part of a Balanced Academic Programme

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