Arts Activities

Performing Arts
Performing arts class is offered to students in grades 1-8. Performing arts includes drama, dance, speech, impromptu performances, skits, puppet shows, and demonstrations. Students in grades K-5 participate in a Christmas program and students in grades 6-8 participate in a spring musical.

Speech
Students in grades 6-8 take speech class, and students in 7-8 are eligible to be on the speech team and compete in archdiocesan speech meets with other schools if they choose to.

Choir
Students in grades 3-8 may elect to participate in the church choir. Practice is from 8 to 8:30 every Friday before mass.

Christmas Program
Grades K-5 participate in a Christmas pageant that celebrates the birth of Jesus and the holiday season.

Spring Musical
Students in Grades 6-8 are required to participate in the spring musical as part of their performing arts grade. The sixth grade is the chorus and 7th and 8th graders play leading rolls or are members of the stage crew. Some plays that have been performed include Annie, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Guys and Dolls, Godspell, Fiddler on the Roof and The Music Man.

Cotillion
Fifth graders participate in a cotillion class that includes etiquette, ballroom dancing, and social skills. It culminates in a dinner dance where students pick the menu, design a place setting, serve their parents, and perform three dances with their classmates and a mother/son or father/daughter dance.