Performing Arts

At St. Agatha Catholic School, all students are given the opportunity to perform in a yearly Christmas and Spring program. Students in Kindergarten through third grade participate in performing arts class that integrates music and movement taught by a specialist two times per week. Fourth grade through eighth grade participate in Drama classes.

Overall Goals

• Sing, play instruments, move to music, and create music
• Learn to read and notate music
• Listen to, analyze and evaluate various styles of music
• Participate in learning the music of various cultures
• Music performances from Kindergarten to Eighth Grade
• Students will be able to sing alone and with others in a varied repertoire of music
• Performance on instruments with a focus on rhythm skills and learning basic notation
• Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
• Improvisation of melodies, variations, and accompaniments
• Composing and arranging music using technology and instruments
• Students learn to play the xylophone/marimba while following rhythmic pattern
• Instruments include recorders and ukeleles.

Choir

Children meet every Wednesday before school to prepare the music for our Wednesday children’s liturgy. Open to grades 3-8.

Drama

Middle school students may choose to participate in Drama as one of the middle school elective opportunities. 3-8 students have an opportunity to perform as actors in the annual Christmas production. St. Agatha partners with the Young People's Theatre Project to bring an annual spring musical to life (2018: Aladdin; 2020: Mary Poppins; 2022: James and the Giant Peach). Open to grades 3-8.