The aims of arts education are;

· To enable the child to explore, clarify, and express ideas, feelings and experiences through a range of arts activities.
· To provide for aesthetic experiences and to develop aesthetic awareness in the visual arts, in music, in dance and in literature
· To develop the child's awareness of sensitivity to and enjoyment of visual, aural, tactile and spatial environment
· To enable the child to develop natural abilities and potential, to acquire techniques, and to practice the skills necessary for creative expression and for joyful participation in different art forms.

To enablethe child to see and to solve problems creatively through imaginative thinking and so encourage individuality and enterprise
· To value the child's confidence and self-esteem through valuing self-expression

- To foster a sense of excellence in and appreciation of the arts in local, regional, national and global contexts, both past and present
· To foster a critical appreciations of the arts for personal fulfillment and enjoyment.

In Tineteriffe we give the children an appreciation of all strands of the new curriculum including;
Drawing, Construction, Clay, Fabric and Fibre, and the 'look and respond' section which gives them and appreciation of famous art and crafts pieces. This is a potter who came on a visit to the children showing them how she creates beautiful clocks in her workshop.