In addition to our core academic subjects, we also encourage the development of our students in the arts (visual arts and music), foreign language, STEM, and physical education.
Beginning in Kindergarten, students will be introduced to an art vocabulary that will enable them to develop the skills necessary to describe various artworks. Students will learn how to use lines, shapes and color to convey meaning. They will explore a variety of subject matters and become keenly aware of their cultural and environmental influences. As students rise in grade level, their knowledge of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design will expand as well as their ability to plan, execute and reflect on their own art making process using multiply mediums including: watercolors, paints, pastels, clay, and multi-media sculpture and technology. Brief lessons on art history and art criticism round out their visual arts education. Each grade meets for Art class once per week.
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
– Frederick Douglass
Holy Redeemer School students experience a variety of music centered learning activities. Our music curriculum offers an opportunity for each grade to learn the fundamentals of music theory and perform in musical productions. Overall, our program explores many areas including:
Our expectations are high and achievable. The essence of what I teach and how I teach always includes the spirit of God. Every child is treated with love and respect. It is my daily goal to share the gift of learning with students in a loving and dignified manner. I teach my students the valuable lifelong skills of being responsible, and respectful while enjoying and growing to appreciate and love music.
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
– Victor Hugo
Our goal for physical education class is to stay fit and healthy while learning new skills and having fun. Depending on the grade level, students will be participating in a variety of activities and learning new skills, developing healthy habits, and learning the rules of new games and fair play.
Each grade meets for physical education class twice a week.
“Sports contribute to the love of life, teaches sacrifice, respect and responsibility, leading to the full development of every human person.”
– Pope St. John Paul II
As a school community, we participate weekly in our Monday morning prayer service and our Wednesday morning Mass with our students taking an active part in facilitating as readers, altar servers, and the choir. The Holy Redeemer school community participates in the Sacrament of Reconciliation during the seasons of Advent and Lent and celebrates special Masses throughout our liturgical calendar. Our students learn the Gospel values that will transform their lives and help them follow Jesus. Our alumni have shared that what they learned while at Holy Redeemer has carried them through the next steps in their spiritual lives.
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
– Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Spanish classes for grades PreK through 4th grade meet once or twice a week and include music, culture, and many vocabulary words chosen to blend with what they are learning and practicing in other subjects. Classes include fun games using physical movement and visual aids as well as some artistic projects. For 5th through 8th grades, classes are held three to four times a week with progressively more advanced grammar, composition, vocabulary, and lessons on Hispanic culture and countries. For all grades, there is a focus on:
Projects include written and oral presentations focused on a cultural or Biblical topic. 7th grade will read Pobre Ana while 8th grade will read a simplified version of Don Quijote as well as a novel on a painting by Picasso.
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart."
– Nelson Mandela
"The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God."
– Pope Francis