Arts
At Holy Child Academy,
the arts are more than just programs - they are a vibrant celebration of imagination, collaboration, and self-expression.
Fine Arts
From painting and drawing to collaborative murals, modeling, and sculpture, our students explore diverse mediums to bring their creativity to life.
Musical Arts
Every student at Holy Child Academy develops a strong foundation in music, learning melody, rhythm, pitch, and the fundamentals of reading musical notation.
Performing Arts
Beginning in the earliest grades, students are encouraged to express themselves through dance, movement, and stage performance.
Fine Arts
"The greatest scientists are artists as well. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world."
-Albert Einstein
The spirit of our visual arts program is to open the hearts and minds of our children to the beauty of the world around them and their ability to express themselves in a variety of media. Projects are brought to expression through many mediums: painting, drawing and modeling with clay, to name a few.
Styles of various artists are explored as students develop their own personal style. A multicultural approach allows students to experience art from many traditions.
The students exceptional work is proudly showcased in our annual End-of-Year Art Show, celebrating their growth and achievements.
Musical Arts
The halls of Holy Child Academy are truly alive with the sound of music. Our children experience the joy of singing and music from their first day of school. Stroll through our Early Childhood Center and hear our youngest children singing seasonal songs and playing music related games, stop in our lunch room and our children will be singing a thank you prayer, visit Connelly Hall and hear the enthusiastic sounds of our vocal and hand bell choirs practicing for the next school performance.
By 8th grade, our students are musically literate young adults having experienced and studied a variety of musical genres, melodic, rhythmic and structural concepts.
Starting in Kindergarten all students participate on stage in a number of musical performances each year.
Fourth grade students have leads in the Lower School Musical and 8th grade students have leads in the Middle School Musical.
All students learn melody, rhythm, pitch and how to read musical notes.
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Choral singing is introduced in the 5th grade and continue through the 8th grade.
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8th grade students lead the audience in sing-alongs during our Christmas concert, perform solos throughout the year and bid farewell to the school with an original medley during Commencement exercises.
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Our program features an award-winning Select Choir that showcases the talent and dedication of our young vocalists.
Performing Arts
Starting in the earliest grades, Holy Child students are given many opportunities to express themselves through dance, performance and movement. Theater is a cooperative and interdisciplinary effort which serves as the common thread for the performing arts. The discipline and self-confidence required to research, plan, rehearse, and perform a skit or short play are invaluable life-skills.
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Nursery, Pre-K and Kindergarten
Our Nursery and Pre-K students study basic movement and dance and put on seasonal performances.
Kindergarten through 2nd grade students study many styles of dance at an introductory level: jazz, tap, ballet, musical theater, and folk. They participate in the Lower School musical theater performance and a multicultural dance and song performance at the end of multicultural week.
3rd and 4th Grade
Program includes:
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Pantomime, character study, improvisation, breathing techniques and the characteristics of a good stage voice.
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In Dance, students study choreography techniques, musical theater, folk dance and are introduced to modern dance.
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Students participate in the Lower School musical theater performance and a multicultural dance and song performance at the end of multicultural week.
5th-8th Grade
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Focuses on the study of musical theater choreography in Dance class and the study of pantomime, stage voice, improvisation, scene production and performance in Theater class.
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5th grade students produce and lead the Christmas Nativity Pageant and participate in the Middle School production.
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6th - 8th grade participate in the Middle School Theater production with our 8th grade students taking the lead.
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Performances over the years have included, Annie, Seussical, Lion King, etc.
