UPPER SCHOOL ARTS
The Visual and Performing Arts stand out at St. John’s School. Every student has had or will have the opportunity to engage with their creative side whether it be through painting, singing, dancing, or performing. St. John’s School recognizes the need for the arts as they provide students with an outlet of creativity and exploration through self expression. At St. John’s we offer visual art classes in all the grade levels, such as art and pottery, and performing arts classes, such as dance, orchestra, band, and drama.
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In the Upper School students have the ability to work in any mode they would like, whether it be in the visual arts through pottery, paint, sculpture, Photoshop and much more or through performing arts through drama, orchestra, and dance.
Students learn the technical skills of each subject and showcase their work via art shows, plays, and concerts every year. Often, students, with the help of teachers, design posters for the school plays and fundraisers. We have had success preparing our students’ portfolios for admissions and acceptance to arts and performing arts colleges and schools. |
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HAND BELLS
Students show enjoyment and love of music through the uniquely beautiful hand bell sounds.
Hand Bells Ensemble is a club offered to St. John’s School students who wants to experience playing beginner and intermediate English Hand Bells.
- Students learn how sound is properly generated with English Hand Bells.
- They execute proper ringing technique.
- They perform proper bell maintenance and care.
- They learn Hand Bell techniques including Shelly ringing, 4-in- Hand, Weaving and Malleting.
- They learn to properly understand and analyze the hand bell score.
- They perform in Christmas Concerts and other events that require hand bell music.
IB DIPLOMA ART
Students in IB Diploma Art develop intercultural understanding, open- mindedness, and the attitudes necessary for them to respect and evaluate a range of points of view!
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme is a rigorous pre-university course of study designed for students in the 16 to19 age range. It is a broad-based two-year course that aims to encourage students to be knowledgeable and inquiring, but also caring and compassionate.
- IB Diploma Visual Arts student challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries.
- They have analytical skills in problem-solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art- makers.
- In addition to exploring and comparing visual arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media.
- The course is designed for students who want to go on to study visual arts in higher education as well as for those who are seeking lifelong enrichment through visual arts.
IB DIPLOMA MUSIC
Students in IB Diploma Music develop intercultural understanding, open- mindedness, and the attitudes necessary for them to respect and evaluate a range of points of view!
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme is a rigorous pre-university course of study designed for students in the 16 to19 age range. It is a broad-based two-year course that aims to encourage students to be knowledgeable and inquiring, but also caring and compassionate.
- IB Diploma Music students have an appropriate foundation for further study in music at university level or in music career pathways.
- They have the opportunity to engage in the world of music as lifelong participants.
- They are curious and open to both familiar and unfamiliar musical worlds.
- They learn to hear relationships of pitch in sound, pattern in rhythm and unfolding sonic structures.
- They explore the similarities, differences and links in music from within our own culture and that of others across time.
- They are informed and do active musical engagement that allow them to explore and discover relationships between lived human experience and specific sound combinations and technologies, thus informing them more fully of the world around them, and the nature of humanity.
IB DIPLOMA THEATER
Students in IB Diploma Theater develop intercultural understanding, open- mindedness, and the attitudes necessary for them to respect and evaluate a range of points of view!
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme is a rigorous pre- university course of study designed for students in the 16 to19 age range. It is a broad-based two-year course that aims to encourage students to be knowledgeable and inquiring, but also caring and compassionate. At the core of the theatre course lies a concern with clarity of understanding, critical thinking, reflective analysis, effective involvement and imaginative synthesis—all of which should be achieved through practical engagement in theatre.
- IB Diploma Theatre students learn the importance of working individually and as a member of an ensemble.
- Students develop the organizational and technical skills needed to express themselves creatively in theatre.
- They become aware of their own perspectives and biases and to learn to respect those of others.
- They exhibit a willingness to understand alternative views, to respect and appreciate cultural diversity, and to see the varied role that theatre plays in reflecting these.
- They celebrate the international and intercultural dynamic that inspires and sustains some forms of contemporary theatre, while appreciating the specifically local origins that have always given rise to performance, and which, in many parts of the world, still do.
- They understand that the act of imagining, creating, presenting and critically reflecting on theatre in its past and present contexts embodies the individual and social need to investigate and find explanations for the world around us.
POTTERY
Students in High School Pottery develop their own personal and artistic ways of working!
St. John’s School offers an exciting Pottery curriculum program designed to provide our students with the tools to develop their imagination and fine-motor skills. Students explore making functional and decorative ceramics using coil, pinch and slab hand-building methods. Although we provide a lot of traditional art instruction, we also encourage students to take what they’ve learned and apply it to outside-the-box projects. Past projects have included: spirit animals, latte stone sculptures, ramen bowls, and much more. Our most important mission is to tap into a child’s potential by encouraging their creativity.
HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
High School Orchestra students are talented and multi-awarded musicians who seek to make a difference in others and in the community!
High School Orchestra is class offered to St. John’s School students who are proficient in playing a woodwind, brass, percussion, and string instrument. The orchestra is devoted to provide its student musicians a sense of family that respects and cares for each other, a fun and intellectual musical experience, and a positive way to serve the school and the local community.
- Students have the opportunity to play in ensemble groups, such as: Concert Band, Symphony, and String Orchestra.
- They perform during the school’s Christmas and Spring Concert.
- They serve the school for its weekly chapel services, quarterly all- school prayer gathering, and fund-raising events.
- They help local community groups for their musical needs.
- They participate in the annual Tumon Bay Music Festival to experience the challenges and benefits of competition.
UPPER SCHOOL BAND
Upper School Band students are instrumental performers and song composers!
Upper School Band is for the serious SJS students who want to have an adequate knowledge of music theory and recording, to perform in public, and to learn a new band instrument.
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