It’s not for everyone, perhaps, though for many students it’s an important means of engaging with the curricular content. Rather than reducing and isolating the arts, they’ve decided to bring them forward. Which is the thinking that ArtsCalibre brings to the delivery of the curriculum. As such, they are central to the way we understand the thoughts, ideas and identities of others. The arts-music, fine art, dance-are central to the way we express our thoughts, ideas, and our identities. They were communicating about hunting, or so it seems, and they did it through art. When the people, all those thousands of years ago, wanted to express themselves to others on the walls of the caves at Lascaux, they painted pictures and (presumably) told stories about them. But the division between those and the arts isn’t perhaps as clear as some might think. We like the three Rs, to be sure, and they’re important.

Too often when a public school board seeks to trim costs they look to arts programming.

Calibre academy website