USCHOOL ARTS

With a wide variety of classes to choose from during the school day and a robust selection of extracurricular opportunities, students can discover their passions, exercise their talents, and express their creativity. Because our students have the benefit of small class sizes, personal relationships with their teachers and mentors, and access to unique opportunities, they can forge their own creative paths alongside and together with other student artists from different disciplines and backgrounds. Students in all arts programs can represent their school in local and national competitions, and while we don’t strive for the awards, we do strive for excellence. Ultimately, we aim to create an ecosystem of creative opportunities, where students can participate in multiple activities, exploring the depths of their interests and abilities in a safe and welcoming environment where risk-taking is encouraged, and where the people who do the work do the learning.

Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Theater)

Music

With an emphasis on a contemporary catalog of songs, our music electives prepare students to perform in small and large group ensembles and to record and mix music in a studio setting. They perform live at pep rallies, games, concerts, competitions, and events. Our music program offers opportunities for students who have vocal and instrumental abilities. Students who play wind, percussion, and strings instruments can perform with our Orchestral Ensemble, while students in Contemporary Music Ensemble and Vocal Ensemble perform contemporary music selections for events and concerts.

Dance

Middle and Upper School students can participate in our competition dance team, FINesse. The team practices after school and performs hip hop and modern dance routines at pep rallies, performances, and competitions. Students serve as choreographers for our Middle and Upper School musicals, which feature our talented dancers.

Theater

Immersed in the world of acting, stagecraft, and direction, our theater students produce plays and musicals, compete in Thespians at the local and state level, and compete in the South Florida Cappies. In Middle School, students begin with a Performing Arts Survey elective and advance to classes in Theater Arts and Thespians. In Upper School, they delve into the history of theater, acting, technical theatre, and theatrical production.

Visual Arts (Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, and Digital Photography and Design)

Visual Arts

In the visual arts, students have access to elective courses in drawing and painting, ceramics, and digital photography and design, which will help them hone their craft and build portfolios. Their artwork will be featured in digital magazines, competitions, galleries, and most importantly, in our own hallways.

Mass Communication (Speech and Debate, Broadcast Journalism, Media Production)

Mass Communication

In the world of mass communication, students can study everything from media production and broadcast journalism to communication and speech and debate. The USchool Network team publishes newspapers, produces a weekly news show, broadcasts school athletic events, and live streams performances. Middle School students begin with a Media Production Survey course that focuses on the fundamentals of photography, videography, and live studio production. In seventh and eighth grades, they can take courses in Broadcast Journalism and Digital Photography and Design. Once a student enters Upper School, they are ready to take advanced broadcast journalism classes with an emphasis on the production of weekly digital news magazine shows, live sports broadcasts, and short films.

Our speech and debate team travels the country and ranks among the best of the best. The speech and debate program teaches students about speech communication and works to enhance debating, public speaking, and interpretation skills. Students in this program also work on advanced research skills, which ultimately helps them prepare for competitions. Classroom debates will use the competitive debate model. Students are encouraged, but not required, to participate in rounds of competition outside of the classroom.

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