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Our courses are designed around architectural drafting/model making, drawing/painting, and sculpture/ceramics. Students utilize a classroom complete with an art history library and a kiln for sculpting projects.
Students from Briarwood have been nominated, attended, and graduated from the Glassell School of Art’s Advanced Curriculum for Teens Program in Houston.
Music strengthens areas of a student’s brain with learning disabilities by building the auditory, visual/spatial, and motor cortices. These areas relate to issues with speech and language, reading, focusing, attention, and concentration.
Students experience basic acting and technical skills through theater games, exercises, and short classroom performances. The class culminates in a final performance of a short play where students learn about the production process and perform for an invited audience.
Throughout the semester, students work with a variety of performance genres including Ancient Greek Theatre, Commedia Dell’ Arte, Shakespeare, Realism, Theatre of the Absurd, Contemporary American Theatre, and Devising.
The Drama Department presents fall and spring productions each school year. Students in grades nine through twelve audition for parts in productions or to be part of the technical crew, working behind the scenes.
Theatre isn’t just about performing. Students learn to form an inclusive community, collaborate with their peers, give and accept criticism and feedback with grace, think creatively, and problem-solve on their feet. It is a place where they can explore their creative side, freely express their ideas, and take creative risks in a safe and supportive environment.
The Briarwood School is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive and equitable learning experience for our students.We value the diversity of the community and will continue to celebrate, engage, reach and retain as well as explore differences in experiences based on, but not limited to, racial, socioeconomic, gender, age, country of origin, culture, sexuality, physical ability, and religious diversity amongst our staff and students. We promote acceptance of learning differences and disabilities and celebrate the many positive experiences and viewpoints that diversity brings to our school community in all of its forms. Our respect for diversity is reflected in our mission, programming, community involvement, admissions, and hiring practices.