Langley Fine Arts School

OUR PURPOSE
To provide a comprehensive education for students, while focussing on the development of aesthetic intelligence through programmes in the Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Dance, Drama, and Music.

OUR PHILOSOPHY
Langley Fine Arts School is a dynamic school community of Grade 1 – 12 learners who value the following:

EXPLORE
• Providing equitable access to the school while expecting a high level of student commitment to learning, to achieving fully one’s potential, and to attaining high standards in all areas of the curriculum.
• Engaging in the processes of creating, presenting, and responding in the arts; and developing in students a firm foundation in the practices and principles of the individual arts disciplines.
• Exploring a curriculum in all of the "multiple intelligences" (verbal/lingual, mathematical/logical, spatial, musical, kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, natural, and existential).
• Collaborating among the staff in order that the total curriculum is presented in an integrated and cohesive way while still honouring the skill development in the respective disciplines.
Experiencing in the lower grades a broad array of the arts, and gradually working toward specializing in one of those arts in the upper grades.

CREATE
• Ensuring that instruction takes a holistic approach to the creative and expressive development of the students, combining a search for significant artistic advancement with purposeful development of individual life skills.
• Offering an education that includes learning in, through, and about the arts.
• Ensuring that students will be well-prepared and competitive in the arts, and also in Provincially Examinable courses.
• Providing a stimulating and aesthetic school in which one is surrounded with exemplary arts examples and experiences.

INSPIRE
• Providing an environment that allows students to express themselves with meaning while feeling safe, accepted, and loved.
• Fostering of the body, mind, and spirit.
• Responding collectively as a school to the global community.