Total Arts Program
Orff-Schulwerk music, creative movement, recorder, quelbe music/scratch band, ethnic drumming and dance and theatre arts are all components that make up this comprehensive arts education program servicing Kindergarten through 8th grade. The advantage to this program is that it offers a year round arts experience through diverse teachings.

Interactive Arts for Literacy through Music and Movement
Speech, rhythm, singing, poetry, movement and the playing of instruments are experienced by the student to explore reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies. Emphasizing critical thinking, this program will attempt to develop student's skills and concepts while adopting the idea of spontaneous creative music making and movement through improvisation. The approach emphasizes the development of musical and personal growth and the totality of expression.

Art
To introduce basic art techniques using different age appropriate mediums.

Bach to Rap Music
This course will focus on discovering and identifying the rhythmic, melodic and instrumental characteristics of various genres. We will then translate these elements to our own music-making and study of rhythmic and melodic notation and score-reading. Students will learn the basic skills of solfege sight-singing and rhythmic notation, and will explore improvisation thru the creation of their own musical pieces. This course will encourage students to develop their own ideas and text to create ensemble pieces, and give them the tools to develop their own musical ideas.

Books Alive!
This program is to celebrate the child’s imagination through movement and acting out storybooks.  Acting vocabulary is introduced while using basic acting skills and directions.  Listening skills are developed to promote self control which, in turn, instills harmony for group interaction success.  Self confidence is encouraged through self expression and character building.

Creative Movement
Based on choreographic methods and philosophies of well known, diverse modern dance choreographers, the teachings of movement as creative expression through various techniques and exercises along with improvisation are presented at age level. The program focuses on the kinesthetic approach in academia including language arts, mathematics, cooperative learning and socialization skills. Creativeness is at the forefront of building confidence while the structured class provides the discipline and direction for a successful experience.

Cultural Music & Dance Program
To offer a cultural dance and music program that introduces Virgin Islands cultural dance and music to elementary school children. At the completion of the program, students will be able to identify the various rhythms of quadrille and quelbe music and perform related dance movements to quadrille and quelbe music while incorporating Virgin Islands folk songs.

Developing an Artistic Eye: Exploring Drama, Poetry and Art through Movement and Self-Expression
This course hopes to instill an appreciation of art forms through intelligent insight; enabling students to develop self-expression and uphold their own ideas in drama, poetry and art through gestural movement, character building, and basic improvisation. Choreographic techniques are used for interpreting these elements.

Graduated Woodwinds: Recorder to Flute
To introduce music literacy through instrumental study as well as promoting group collaboration.  This class also prepares students for instruction in flute (Graduated Woodwind – Recorder to Flute – Upper Campus class), which is set up to promote woodwind instruments, evolving into ensembles.

Mind/Body Connection for Scholastic Improvement
To introduce relaxation and concentration skills and enhance the student's overall performance inside and outside the classroom this class improves self-discipline, while nurturing sense of care for others and themselves.

Orff Schulwerk: Music for Children
Orff adopts the idea of spontaneous music making, focusing on creative independence. Speech, movement, rhythm, singing, and playing of instruments are experienced to explore language and rhythm, rhythm and melody; and form and improvisation.

Recorder
To introduce music literacy through instrumental study.

Steel Band
To introduce students to the rudimentary skills of steel pan playing while exploring the four basic voices of music, and learning and applying the elements of music theory.  The students will learn and practice appropriate techniques such as rolls, right and left hand flams, and right and left hand double and triple sticking.  At the end of the program the orchestra should be able to perform a full simple composition in one key.

Theatre Arts
This program teaches basic life skills for life-long learning.  Students will learn problem recognition and problem solving, conflict resolution, critical and creative thinking skills.  While strengthening the imagination for creative self-expression, students will learn how to discipline the voice and body, and focus the emotions for purposeful use, developing self-discipline.  Approaches will include theatre games; vocal exercise; scene improvisation; and scene performance.  This program will give students an opportunity to learn to communicate more proficiently, work independently as a member of a team, and to value the individual contributions of others.