Lower School Arts

The Lower School Arts Program

The arts play a significant, integrated role in the Lower School to affirm and develop artistry within every student. Our programming offers nurturing and exploratory environments for students to learn, grow, and play through creative processes in both visual and performing arts. Students participate in both forms twice each week throughout the year and regularly showcase their work through exhibits and performances.

Fifth grade students performing at the MAESA Episcopal Schools Celebration Service at the Washington National Cathedral in October.
Artist and St. Andrew's parent James Nyika leads fifth-grade students through a water color workshop, teaching them to mix colors, paint washes and add shadows as they painted their own mountain landscapes.
Fourth graders practice repertoire on their orff xylophones in the Lower School Music Room.
Lower School students display their self portrait paintings and quotes detailing how another classmate brought them happiness.
Second graders perform for grandparents and special friends at a Lower School Assembly in November.

Preschool - Second Grade

The focus for our younger students is to discover and celebrate their artistic and expressive abilities. Students are guided through artmaking, musical explorations, and creative movement tailored and sequenced to support their early childhood development. By exploring a wide variety of tools, materials, and diverse styles and genres, students develop their love for the arts and hone their gross and fine motor skills, as well as their abilities to concentrate, persevere, and collaborate.

Third - Fifth Grade

The focus for our older students is to further realize their creative potential and advancing their artistic literacies within the arts and interdisciplinarily. Visual arts courses collaborate with design science to develop students’ investigations and sensitivity to the elements of art, principles of design, how to understand patterns, and make predictions. Performing arts students continue honing their musicianship with classes emphasizing performance skills and musical literacy, expanding their instrumentation, vocal abilities, and musical complexity through sequenced levels of repertoire.

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Individual Music Lessons

The lower school offers individual and small group lessons for piano and violin. These are offered before and after school. For more information, please contact Judy Kee (jkee@saes.org).