Student Life
Arts & Music
The arts and music program at Sacred Heart is part of every student’s week, not an elective a handful of children opt into.
Every student from PreK3 through eighth grade has art class once a week with a specialist, studying art history and criticism alongside their own painting, drawing, and sculpture. Music runs on the same schedule, moving from classroom instruments and note reading in the early grades to choir and our award-winning band program, where students in fourth through eighth grade take weekly lessons during the school day. A child who starts here in preschool does not sample the arts. They build a decade of them.
Arts Program
All students in Pre-K through 8th grade have art class once a week, taking part in:
Art history•Art production•Art criticism
Early Childhood & Primary
The process of creating art, experimenting with how materials work together while painting, drawing, and sculpting.
Elementary
Growing as artists, with a broader understanding of the elements of art and the principles of design.
Middle School
Observational drawing and developing a more personal artistic voice.
All students also study artists and art movements by analyzing famous artwork, watching videos, and reading about artists. By analyzing the artwork of famous artists, their peers, and themselves, students learn the process of art criticism and evaluation.
Music Program
Our choir in concert
Our band in concert
The Music program focuses on the proper use of classroom instruments and an introduction to note reading. Dancing, movement, and creative listening activities are part of music lessons, and students are encouraged to display their creativity through singing, dancing, or instrumental performance. Intermediate and Middle School students have the opportunity to join our Choir.
Award-winning band
Grades 4–8 · Extra-curricularOpen to students in fourth through eighth grades.