Art & Music Appreciation
SHCS believes in Arts Education. Exposing children to music and art during early development helps them learn sounds and meanings of words. It also helps develop their creative thinking, problem-solving, self-expression and self-esteem. This development continues into older children and adults. Furthermore, an education in the fine arts helps students to see what they look at, hear what they listen to, and feel what they touch. It helps students to stretch their minds beyond the boundaries of textbooks or curriculum rules.


- The foundation of beats and simple rhythms
- To match vocal pitch
- Christmas songs & Easter songs
- To recognize notes by sight and by sound
- To play the recorder
- Christmas songs and & Easter songs
- Basic Theater & Drama Production
- To read notes
- To differentiate many types of music genres
- To compose a simple melody
- The foundation of music history
- Basic Theater & Song Performance

- Multimedia art forms including pencil and erasers as tools and paint as mass
- To experiment with lines, shapes, forms, and texture
- The difference between warm and cool colors
- To blend with pencil, charcoal, colored pencils, and paint
- The basics of art composition and special perspective
- Print making and the reversal process
- How to use acrylics in color mixing
- Basic color theory and design concepts
Our students have opportunities to participate in many different art competitions and shows throughout the school year such as Rowan Public Library's Annual Bookmark Contest, the Waterworks' School Art Show and the Rowan County Art Show.