Freeport Schools Arts Department
Lynn Fusco, Director of Arts & Community Relations
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Shannon Abramovitz, Music Facilitator
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Susan Warren, Visual Art Facilitator
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Jocelyn Rodriguez, Freeport High School Arts Department Chair
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Iliana Rodriguez, Assistant to the Office of the Arts
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DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
The Freeport School District's Arts Department affords all students the opportunity to study music and visual arts. The vision of Freeport Public Schools is to inspire in all the desire to learn and succeed. Our schools will be safe learning communities that celebrate our achievements and encourage active partnerships with families and the entire community. We will empower students to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the future.
Our Freeport Arts programs align to the new New York State Standards for the Arts, which are designed on the following artistic processes: Creating, Presenting/Performing/Producing, Responding and Connecting. The NYS Standards for the Arts includes five disciplines, and our arts curricula proudly provides students with opportunities to experience each: Music, Visual Art, Media Art, Dance and Theater.
ELEMENTARY K-4: FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Elementary students are immersed in visual art, general music, orchestra and band in grades K-4. Throughout their artistic education in elementary school, students are exposed to the elements of art and music, experience a wide and varied repertoire of artists, and gain authentic artistic opportunities through performance-based assessments and community presentations such as annual winter and spring festivals of the Arts. Students also have a variety of club opportunities available to them including Art Club, Dance/Step Club, and Chorus.
Every elementary child is provided with the opportunity to showcase their artwork at the state and national levels through visual art festivals and competitions through the Art Supervisors Association All County Art Exhibit, and participation in music festivals sponsored by the New York State School Music Association, and the Nassau Music Educators Association. The course offerings by grade level are listed below:
Kindergarten-Grade 2: Visual Art and General Music
Grade 3: Visual Art and General Music
Grade 4: Visual Art, General Music (Choral Emphasis), and the option to begin Instrumental Studies in Orchestra or Band
INTERMEDIATE & MIDDLE SCHOOL 5-8: FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Students at the Caroline G. Atkinson Intermediate School and J.W. Dodd Middle School have the opportunity to study visual art, chorus, band, percussion, orchestra, and general music. The intermediate and middle school experience provides students with the opportunity to become more independent learners, taking advantage of the many available experiences that will help to shape them into soloists and innovative artists. Our intermediate and middle school students gain authentic artistic opportunities through performance-based assessments, and presentations such as annual winter and spring festivals of the Arts. Students also have a variety of club opportunities available to them, such as Step/Drill Team, Drama Club, Select Chorale, Art Club, Musical Theater, Select Orchestra, and Jazz Ensemble, some of which afford them the opportunity to work in concert with Freeport High School artists.
Our intermediate and middle school students are provided with the opportunity to showcase their work at the state and national levels through visual art festivals and competitions through the Art Supervisors Association All County Art Exhibit, and participation in music festivals sponsored by the New York State School Music Association and the Nassau Music Educators Association. The course offerings by grade level are listed below:
Grade 5: Visual Art, General Music, Chorus, Band and Orchestra
Grade 6: Visual Art, General Music, Chorus, Band, and Orchestra
Grade 7: Visual Art, General Music, Chorus, Band, and Orchestra
Grade 8: Visual Art, General Music, Chorus, Band, and Orchestra
HIGH SCHOOL 9-12: FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Freeport High School's Fine and Performing Arts programs prepare students for life-long artistic literacy in the Arts and/or the ability to pursue professional studies in an Arts college program. Students have varied course offerings to choose from, inclusive of Advanced Placement classes in Music Theory and Art History.
Students enrolled in the Visual and Media Arts display their work throughout the community in annual winter and spring festivals of the Arts, as well as participate in festivals, competitions through the Art Supervisors Association All County Art Exhibit, and gallery shows at the state and national levels.
Students enrolled in music are provided with solo and ensemble performance opportunities in annual winter and spring festivals of the Arts, in addition to music festivals sponsored by the New York State School Music Association, and the Nassau Music Educators Association.
Freeport High School Arts students have a variety of extra-curricular opportunities available to them including Art Club, Musical Theater, Jazz Band, Brass Ensemble, Colorguard and Kickline, Ninth Grade Select Chorus, and Marching Band.
Course offerings in the Arts at Freeport High School include:
Studio in Art
Creative Crafts
Studio Drawing & Painting
Advanced Studio Drawing & Painting
Principles of Cartooning
Ceramics
Beginner Fashion
Intermediate Fashion
Advanced Fashion
Portfolio
Advertising & Media I & II
AP Art History
Music in Our Lives
Music Technology
Concert Band
Wind Ensemble
Orchestra
Freshman Orchestra
Sinfonietta
Mixed Chorus
Concert Choir
Select Chorale
AP Music Theory
LINKS/FORMS
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14_T6bOwtBtRGMS_Q6a_nCQ-gmSao-1SK/view?usp=share_link
Elementary Instrumental Music Welcome Letter (English)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RIJsb4R40sj-HlhPbBdSyrX3g7r2jkvl/view?usp=share_link
Elementary Instrumental Music Welcome Letter (Spanish)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZrU2F3fdf1UFIUGq3CLAmjCanmoAUrZ6/view?usp=share_link
Instrumental Usage Form
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uboPuk_SLzbxCav9px4S_J9SGF6Yq-f8/view?usp=share_link
MySchoolBucks Payment Directions for Instrument Rentals
http://www.nysed.gov/curriculum-instruction/arts-standards-implementation-resources
New York State Learning Standards for the Arts