Westwood Charter School offers several after school activities to support its students. Please contact the main office to get more information on how to participate.
Instruments and Orchestra
If you are a member of the instrument or orchestra program, be sure to remember to bring your instrument to school every Tuesday!
Chorus
The Westwood Charter Chorus is open to students in grades three through five. Chorus meets every Monday and Wednesday during lunch in Bungalow 2.
Westwood Charter Players
Westwood Charter Players is an after school drama program open to students in 3rd grade to 5th grade. It’s available on either Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Fridays for two hours each week starting at the end of September and running all the way to the end of the year- culminating in a full production in June.
Drama helps shy kids grow more confident in expressing themselves and offers the outgoing kids a place to strut their stuff. It teaches kids how to work as a team. It gives the older kids the opportunity to lead and the younger kids great role models to work alongside. With our drama program lasting the full year we can see the progress your children make and feel very rewarded when it shows on their faces at the end of a successful year. Almost all drama kids come back the next year bringing even more personality and confidence with them. We're very proud of our drama kids.
For more info and to see what we’re up to visit www.westwoodcharterplayers.com
Mini-Players
Westwood Charter Mini-Players is an after-school musical theatre and exploratory creative dramatics program for K - 2 grades! The first/second grade Ensemble meets September thru March: program culminates with performances of a Broadway Musical. Kindergarten meets January thru April: program culminates with performances of a thematic Showcase that includes original material developed by cast members along with published Broadway material.
In Mini-Players, students will: build and develop performance skills; enjoy personal and artistic growth and development; work as a collaborative community; research and explore; and receive instruction from experienced artists and educators in singing/vocals (with live piano accompaniment); dance/movement; acting/character development; basic improvisation; fundamentals of set, prop and costume design; theatrical vocabulary; performance techniques and theatre etiquette.
Environment is collaborative, energetic, nurturing, validating and fun! Every student will thrive. Mini-Players has been specially developed for Westwood Charter Elementary School by CCLO™ (Children's Civic Light Opera).