Grade 4Creative Arts

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 4 Creative Arts curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Creating and ExecutingMaking things and performing skills: drawing, painting, rhythm, melody and the first team game.5 topics·159 questions

  • Percussion Musical Instruments (Drawing)

    7 skills

    Drawing percussion instruments accurately, looking at how they are actually built.

  • Netball

    4 skills

    The basic passes, positions and rules, and playing within them.

  • Painting and Montage

    4 skills

    Mixing and applying colour, and building a picture from cut and arranged pieces.

  • Rhythm

    5 skills

    Keeping and clapping a beat, and reading simple rhythm patterns.

  • Melody

    6 skills

    Following a tune up and down, and singing or playing it back.

2Performing and DisplayingThe largest strand: doing it in front of other people, on a track, in a pool, on a stage or through a lens.7 topics·210 questions

  • Athletics

    4 skills

    Running, jumping and throwing with proper technique, and improving on a personal result.

  • Gymnastics

    4 skills

    Balances, rolls and simple sequences, done safely and in control.

  • Songs

    5 skills

    Singing in tune and in time, alone and with others.

  • Photography

    4 skills

    Framing a photograph, holding the camera steady, and saying why a picture works.

  • Descant Recorder

    5 skills

    Holding and blowing the recorder, the first notes, and playing a short tune.

  • Swimming

    5 skills

    Water confidence, basic strokes, and the safety rules that come before either.

  • Indigenous Kenyan Games

    4 skills

    Learning and playing traditional games, and the rules and counting that go with them.

3Appreciation in Creative ArtsOne topic: saying why a piece of work is good, in words.1 topic·31 questions

  • Analysis of Creative Arts Works

    6 skills

    Looking at a piece of art, music or performance and describing what was done well and what could be better.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 4 Creative Arts curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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400 Grade 4 Creative Arts questions in the bank, covering every topic on this page.