Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA)
All students participate in a weekly standards-based visual and performing arts program, in addition to choral music instruction. Instrumental music is offered at the intermediate level. Students in grades 4 and 5 are expected to participate in
either instrumental or choral instruction.
The E.B. Scripps VAPA program includes the following goals:
- Arts Education Partnerships: provide opportunities where teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers as part of a shared-teaching experience.
- Learning through the Arts: provide arts-infused lessons that promote artistic thinking throughout the curriculum.
- Arts for Exceptional Students: develop and foster artistic talent, and support student talent through participation in district and community art exhibitions, honor concerts, productions, festivals, and school and community events.