Ignite D'Arts

Ignite D'Arts is OEPS's arts programme helping students explore and appreciate Art and Music across six years. Discover how students learn, collaborate, and celebrate creativity through four key domains.

Last updated 11 September 2026

Ignite De Arts @ OEPS is a distinctive aesthetics programme that provides opportunities for students to have a deeper appreciation for the Arts and Music and it is also one of the platforms of the school to emphasize the importance of holistic education in OEPS. The programme is designed comprehensively in terms of length, breadth and depth, to include 21st Century Competencies into the activities; to bring daily life routines and values education into the teaching of the Arts and Music; to synergize and collaborate with similar & related programmes such as PAL and Assembly programme so that school resources can be optimized to maximise students’ overall learning and development experience. Throughout the 6 years of education in OEPS, all students will progress through the 4 Arts domains: Learn Arts, Explore Arts, Collaborative Arts and Fun Arts.

Learn Arts focuses on the learning of fundamental skills and concepts in music & art based on the school’s GMP (General Music Programme) and GAP (General Art Programme) syllabus.

Explore Arts focuses on the appreciation of Arts and Music through PAL modules, Modular Arts Programmes and Arts Exposure Programmes (AEP) etc. The modules under each domain are carefully selected to be age-appropriate and well-paced. Students are also taught values explicitly in these modules, for example, understanding and appreciating the works of fellow schoolmates; learning to be patient, and being responsible for their own learning.

Collaborative Arts focuses on the application of skills in Art and Music in inter-department projects as well as external organisations such as SOTA, Tao Nan School Poi Ching School, LTA etc.

Fun Arts focuses on celebrating successes of students’ work and self-expression through art Exhibitions, performances in and outside of school events such as the Art Exhibition at i12 Katong, recess programmes and outreach events etc.

LEARN ARTS

Four school scenes: students doing art, kids with tablets and headphones, colorful craft animals, and a boy filming with a tablet.

EXPLORE ARTS

Five photos show school children doing art, music, museum, assembly, and theatre activities at various school programmes.

COLLABORATIVE ARTS

Four photos from TNS x OEPS Students Art Exhibition 2023 showing students and teachers posing near framed artwork displays.

Students and teachers pose and work on art projects during a Cultural Collaboration event with Poi Ching School.

FUN ARTS

A conductor leads a large group of uniformed schoolchildren playing djembe drums indoors during a flash mob.

Children in school uniforms interact with colorful interactive wall panels and bowls during recess play.

Three photos of young students in uniforms playing at colorful interactive school activity stations during recess.

Students in uniforms participate in a LEGO Interclass Competition, gathered around tables with LEGO bricks guided by teachers.