Performing Arts

Music education is an integral part of the Lower Division curriculum. The program is designed to excite children about music by connecting music, words, and movement through rhythm into lessons that inspire the students' creativity and innovation. As with other aspects of the Brentwood program, the music program is integrated with other studies. As Third Grade students, for example, journey the world, they learn about various operas, and Sixth Grade students perform an original musical version of The Odyssey.

Students have the opportunity to share their talents and all they have learned in both winter and spring performances. But these are like no other elementary school performances, for each grade puts together and performs its own unique, hour-long program. Every child is a star as they sing, dance, and play instruments up on the stage. In addition, every spring the Kindergarten and Sixth Grade classes each perform in special musical theater productions.

There is also an after-school music theater program open to students in grades three through five. Students with a passion for music and performance may enroll in the program, which provides them added opportunities to develop their interests and talents.