Fine Arts Academy Program
The fine arts academy program at St. Mary’s school attracts students from all over the city and surrounding area. The programming emphasis is on enriching a students experience in performing and visual arts. Our program meets the needs of many students, in particular; those students who enjoy the fine arts but are not considering it as a career option; and those students who are very involved in the fine arts and may be considering it as a career option. The program is for boys and girls, and all academy programming is taught by highly qualified experienced and certified teachers.
The five disciplines offered are Choral/singing, drama, band, dance and art.
• Grade 7 academy students participate in all five of the main disciplines. The fee structure is included below.
• Grade 8 Academy students participate in four of the five fine arts disciplines. and have extra time built in the timetable in the humanities class in order to help students prepare for grade 9 academics
• Grade 9 students participate in four of the five disciplines. Students will now take social studies and language arts, instead of humanities. This allows our students to be academically prepared for grade 9 provincial achievement exams, as well as to help prepare our students for high school.
• As a result students in grade 8 and 9 will still be able to take drama, dance and choir in the academy however will need to choose between art and band.
|
Class/fee |
Grade 7 |
Grade 8 & 9 With band |
Grade 8 & 9 With art |
|
Band ( 90.00 + 40.00) |
130.00 |
130.00 |
0 |
|
Choral |
35.00 |
35.00 |
35.00 |
|
Dance |
45.00 |
45.00 |
45.00 |
|
Drama |
40.00 |
40.00 |
40.00 |
|
Art |
35.00 |
0 |
35.00 |
|
District fee |
72.00 |
72.00 |
72.00 |
|
School council |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
|
Lock/locker |
2.00 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
|
Computer technology |
5.00 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
|
Substitute teachers |
30.00 |
30.00 |
30.00 |
|
Bussing |
25.00 |
25.00 |
25.00 |
|
|
420 |
385 |
290 |
Academic Program
Grade 9 students will have academic instruction in:
- Religion
- Language Arts
- Math
- Social
- Science
Grade 7 and 8 students will have academic instruction in:
- Religion
-
Humanities
- Humanities integrate the curriculum outcomes from both Language Arts and Social Studies. Most of the students' outcomes in these subjects are similar.
- Math
- Science
Academy Program
Each student in the Fine Arts Academy participate in 5 main disciplines: Dance, Art, Band, Choral/Singing, and Drama. The Fine Arts students also get 2 periods of P.E. each week. Students have the option of dropping one of the five areas to accomodate practice time (e.g. have a piano lesson, etc). The latter is only permitted if the student is registered in a formal program and is attending lessons on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Students who select to take four out of five classes will have three undesignated periods in which to practice or have an instructor come on campus to give a lesson.
Students who are seriously involved in Fine Arts lessons outside of the school day (with a private instructor) are afforded extra flexibility when it comes to timetable programming. Students may elect to drop one of their Fine Arts classes, and use these "free" periods to take a lesson at school, with your private instructor, leave the school to take a lesson, or practice material given to them by their private instructor. Please remember that practice space is limited at St. Mary's School because of growing enrollment and thus will be allocated on a first come first served basis (starting the last week of August).
It is very important for everyone to understand that these free periods are only available to students who are serious about their lessons outside of school. In order to access this time, students must be taking private lessons.
