Electives

Elementary School physical education stresses gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and general fitness; this moves to more specific skills as children mature. Leadership, sportsmanship, cooperation, empathy, and positive self-image are encouraged throughout all grades. Team sports include basketball and soccer starting in 4th grade. An emphasis on breathing, yoga, mindfulness, and meditation are also interwoven into the program. Wellness is offered three times a week.

True to the tides of the 21st century, the use of technology is both seamless and scrutinized. Students learn keyboarding skills, internet use, research skills, Google apps, and digital media skills. IPad apps are carefully chosen to reinforce reading, math, and language. In Grades 2–5, students work on multimedia projects as well as basic word-processing, spreadsheet, and drawing applications. New Roads is a cross-platform school, using iPads, laptops, and Chromebooks depending on the activity and need. Coding is offered as a second language, facilitating familiarity in designing commands for purpose and cross applying these skills to new platforms.

Our electives program is intentionally broad to pique the curiosity of our students. Electives include the arts, academics and wellness. Our electives are diverse, reflecting our philosophical commitment to the value of the nonlinear creative process and the full development of each unique individual and their creative thinking and expression. New Roads has developed an elective program that allows students to choose from among several classes each semester. Although different in style and modality, our hope is that all students begin to learn and explore the ways our common humanity and cultural differences are expressed in artistic creation and perception.

Conceptual Clothing
Conceptual Clothing II
Dream Home
Introduction to 2D Art
Introduction to 3D Art
Murals & Installations
Photography Processes
Printmaking
Small Scale Sculpture I & II (Sculpture & Jewelry Design)
The Art of the Film
Art of the Journal
Yearbook

Drama
Drama - Improv
Glee/Vocal Music
Guitar/ Bass l
Guitar/ Bass ll
Keyboard
MS Brass
Music Production
Percussion
Pop Ensemble
Songwriting
Strings

Coding
Game Design
Introduction to Animation Introduction to Digital Media Video Shorts (Level 1 & 2)

Advanced Robotics
Creative Writing
Kitchen Chemistry
Robotics
Science Odyssey
Speech & Debate

Dance Ensemble
Dance Fitness
Foundations of Dance
Hip Hop
Fitness
Group Games
Sports Fundamentals
Yoga

Dance Company
Dance Studio
Dance Technique: Hip Hop
Dance Technique: Jazz/Modern

Drama 1-4, Honors
Improv Team
Technical Theater

Band (Jazz Band, Rock Band)
Chamber Music (Orchestra, Strings) Music Production 1-4
Music Theory
Songwriting
Vocal Arts
World Music 1-3

Visual Art 1
Visual Art 2
Visual Art 3: Figure Drawing
Visual Art 4, Honors: Studio Art/Portfolio Graphic Design: Yearbook  
    Production
Conceptual Clothing 1-2
Costume Shop
Photography 1-4
Printmaking
Sculpture

Film Literacy and Production
This program introduces students to the latest techniques and application of technology. Courses help nurture their self-expression through creativity, strengthen their technical skills, develop their problem-solving, and provide them with foundational theories and procedures to create/ understand thought-provoking media. Our main goal is to allow students the opportunity to learn by “doing.” Every student will be given the chance to bring their imagination to life through courses such as Film Analysis, Film Production 1-7, Film Theory 1-2, Director's Workshop, and Screenwriting 1-4.

Digital Media
Our Digital Media program combines creativity with exercises and activities that result in fluency in the language of technology and in employing it to innovate. Some of the Upper School courses we offer include Animation 1-3, Computer Science 1-4 (Honors), and Photoshop.

Creative Writing 1-4
Journalism
PE
Robotics
Speech & Debate
Sports Leadership
Sports Media
Student Leadership Council
Yoga
Mysteries