Program of Studies

Elementary

Theatre arts and dance are taught through a variety of different experiences since we do not offer individual theatre arts or dance classes during the school day.

Oftentimes in the primary grades, classroom teachers, physical education teachers, and the music teachers collaborate around curricular themes that result in musical, theatrical, or movement performances. 

Students have the opportunity to participate in the yearly Village musical combining 4th - 6th grades and a Veterans musical combining 7th/8th grades.

Seventh grade students have the opportunity to participate in the Shakespeare Residency which is a component of their grade level social studies and language arts curriculum. 

In high school, students have the opportunity to try out for the following events:

Shakespeare (state) Competition

Musical

Drama

Drama Festival (state competition)

Theatre Tech – lighting, sound, stage crew, costuming, set design space, props

Student Directed Play

 

ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

Through school funds, PTO funds, and grants, numerous enrichment programs are brought into the schools to further expose students to quality theatre and dance performance and to connect to curriculum studies.  Students attend programs such as:

Elementary Schools:

• Art Quest
• Underground Railway
• Bash the Trash
• Tanglewood Marionettes: “Hansel & Gretel”
• Authors and illustrators

Middle School:

• Theatre Espresso, “Justice at War: The story of the Japanese Internment Camps”
• Are You Ready, My Sister? The Underground Railway Theatre
• Shakespeare Residency

High School:

• Artist in residences: Don Gorvett and Sean Hurley, printmakers
• Poet in residence: Taylor Mali
• Master classes with college a cappella groups

 

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