All students from Nursery School to Grade 8 take
music as a compulsory subject with a music specialist teacher.
Students in Grades 9-12 are required to take at least one class by
the end of high school. The school has two music specialists, one
for all elementary students and one for upper school students. In
the
elementary music program instruction
is based on both Kodaly and Orff music teaching methods. Students in
grades 4, 5 and 6 learn to play the recorder. Upper school music
classes include instruction on guitar as well as computer music
programs. This year NISC is
introducing a band program with trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and
some other instruments.
Private music lessons are also
offered. Instruments include flute, clarinet, piano, guitar and
drums.
The school has two music specialists, one for all elementary
students and one for upper school students. In the elementary music
program instruction is based on both Kodaly and Orff music teaching
methods.Students in grades 4, 5 and 6 learn to play the recorder.
Upper school music classes include instruction on guitar as well as
computer music programs. This year NISC
is introducing a band program with trumpets, trombones, saxophones,
and some other instruments. Private music lessons are also offered.
Instruments include flute, clarinet, piano, guitar and drums.
Drama is offered in Grades 9 – 12 as an
elective. It is a participation course and all students are expected
to be active and participate in games, exercises, rehearsals and
performances. This course focuses on some of the following: mime,
tableaux, vocal studies, and performances including radio plays,
improvisation and character building, scene building, play building,
monologues, and theater terminology, basic staging and performance
etiquette. Students are expected to perform in front of their peers in
classroom and assembly settings
and also in larger school productions.
On an extra-curricular basis, the school affords students the
opportunity to perform musical theatre productions.
