Concord Road School’s K - 4th grade art program focuses on your child’s opportunity to experience the joy and satisfaction of creativity. Our program fosters a basic love of art, an appreciation of abstraction, and the ability to enjoy looking at art with their families. The art curriculum includes the study of famous artists, art styles, and diverse cultures. We provide “hands-on” experience with a wide range of artistic media and techniques.
Computers
Technology is an integral part of the Concord Road School curriculum. The technology curriculum is designed to help your child be a better problem solver, information seeker and user, and a more effective communicator. We strive to create an environment where technology becomes "transparent," where your child develops a seamless connection between the use of technology as a tool and the completion of a classroom project.
Library
Our curriculum goal in the library is to help each student become an independent learner and to introduce him/her to the full range of resources available in the library. The school's library media center is a place for the students to read a book, research a topic, and find a quiet place to do a project. We also read to the students exposing them to the many types of literature that we have available to them in the library.
Every class comes to the library once a week for library instruction and we encourage all students to use the library and to borrow books as often as possible.
Music
The Concord Road Music Program provides a weekly general music class to all grades. Our goals are to bring a variety of music to children, encourage them to understand elements of music, and give them opportunities to listen, play, and sing together to create and share music. Students listen to, compare, and analyze music from our country, countries around the world, and different periods of history. A wide variety of rhythm and Orff instruments are used to perform and create music. Children move and play games with music. Third and fourth grade students may participate in our performance programs. Small group lessons are offered in band and string instruments, and students may also choose to sing in the third or fourth grade Chorus. The Strings, Band, and Choruses present a Winter and Spring Concert.
Physical Education
The Physical Education (PE) program at Concord Road prepares students with the skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activity. Physical activities are undertaken in a supportive atmosphere. Every student is challenged. Sport and movement skills are taught, integrating the concepts of health and wellness, fair play, teamwork, and personal living skills. We aim to nurture a healthy and active lifestyle. The curriculum combines team and individual activities.
Science
Our science department's goal is to stimulate your child’s natural curiosity and to encourage a love of learning about the world around them. We nurture a desire to ask questions and to develop the skills to answer these questions themselves. Our program helps students acquire the investigation strategies used by scientists as they learn important science concepts. Our activity-based program encourages our children to collaborate with others in the exploration of life and physical science. Our curriculum is designed to meet the New York State Learning Standards for Scientific Inquiry and Elementary Science.
The Science Department also exposes your child to an exciting Elementary Space Curriculum, including the use of StarLab -- our own planetarium. We also have an outdoor garden to support the study of plant forms.