Visual Arts

SCS offers a comprehensive visual art experience for grades K - 12.

Lower School

• Instruction is focused on the elements of art through stimulating projects including drawing, painting, printing, weaving and fabric arts, ceramics and other three dimensional mediums.
• Students have received recognition and awards locally from the Daily Times, the Delmarva Youth Magazine the Ward Museum Art Show, and regionally from the Baltimore Arts Week exhibit at the Meyer Hall.
• 5th grade students take a yearly Fine Arts field trip to Baltimore to include a Baltimore Symphony Concert and a tour of the Walters Art Museum .
• Art students are introduced to famous art and artists through an integration of art history into the art curriculum.

Upper School

• The curriculum is designed to meet the six "National Visual Arts Standards:
• Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
• Using knowledge of structures and functions
• Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols and tools
• Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
• Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
• Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
• Students participate in the ACSI Fine Arts Festival. At the most recent festival select students received "Best in Show" for graphics Arts and Acrylic Painting.

Performing Arts

• SCS offers a Drama Club to our 6th -12th graders which becomes a training ground for our students to learn all aspects of the production process.
• SCS offers two full scale productions per year: a drama in the fall and a musical in the spring. Past drama productions include You're a Good Man Charlie Brown , C inderella , Fiddler on the Roof , Hello Dolly , Little Women of Orchard House , and The Sound of Music .
• The dramas mentioned above have included an average cast of 80 students and teachers with approximately 20 students in the orchestra.

Instrumental Music

• SCS offers band instruction starting in the 4th grade. Our 4th & 5th graders learn through small group lessons once a week.
• Our band program consists of both wind instruments and percussion.
• At the Upper school level band instruction becomes a part of the student's daily schedule.
• The combined total of students in the Upper school band programs totals approximately 75 students.
• SCS also offers a Pep Band option (Basketball games!) for interested students.
• Besides the Winter and Spring Band concerts, the band competes each year in regional competitions.

Vocal Music

• Each Winter and Spring our Lower School chorus, made up of all of our 1st - 5th grade students, perform amazing programs.
• At the Middle and High school levels, students are required to audition for Chorus. The Middle school chorus consists of approximately 30 students, while the High school chorus is around 45 students. In addition, SCS offers an Honors Chorus for select students.
• Our Upper school chorus performs in the ACSI Fine Arts Festival and has become accustomed to receiving "Excellent" ratings.