CMS Theater: NEWSIES, JR.

Join Us May 18-20, 2023 at BHS for the Annual Chenery Middle School Seventh and Eighth Grade Musical!

Grade 5 Music Registration Open

The Grade 5 Music curriculum at Chenery provides all students with their first large ensemble experience - Band, Chorus, or Orchestra. Keep reading to learn how to take advantage of this important opportunity for your student.

BHS Performing Arts Company: One Act Plays

Join us for our annual Student Directed Festival of short plays. May 11th-13th at 7:00PM in the BHS Black Box.

K-12 Art Show 2023: April 27 - May 8

Celebrate the arts with us this week at the K-12 Art Show from April 27 through May 8.

Belmont Students Receive High Honors in Visual Art and Music

Over 100 students earned recognition for their individual achievement in the arts.

"Off the Clock" Faculty Art Exhibit

Visit the Belmont Gallery of Art between January 26 and February 26 to experience works of art created by members of the Belmont Public School Visual Art faculty.

Masquerade Concert - Wednesday Oct. 26, 6pm

The Belmont High School Music Department offers a fun evening of Halloween-inspired performances.

Elementary Instrumental Music Fee Elimination

The Belmont School Committee has voted to eliminate the $250 Participation Fee for Grade 4 and Grade 5 Instrumental Music

Grade 5 Music Selection

The following message contains information about the Grade 5 Music Program, with enrollment instructions below. Please read through this message carefully, and feel free to contact Arto Asadoorian (Director of Visual & Performing Arts, aasadoorian@belmontschools.net) with any questions.

Grade 4 Strings Enrollment

The following message contains information about the Grade 4 Strings Program, with enrollment instructions below. Please read through this message carefully, and feel free to contact Arto Asadoorian (Director of Visual & Performing Arts, aasadoorian@belmontschools.net) with any questions. All Belmon...

Visual Art

The Belmont Public Schools K-12 Visual Art program offers students a comprehensive education in the visual arts, led by expert educators who are leaders in their field.  Student artwork has been recognized by Scholastic Arts and the Boston Globe for its quality, consistently earning awards at the state and national levels.

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Music

The Belmont Public Schools is nationally recognized for the excellence of its K-12 Music program.  Student musicians are recognized each year for their achievement, performing in honors ensembles on the local, state and national level.  

Belmont has been named one of the "Best Communities for Music Education" in the United States by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM).

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Theater & Dance

The Department of Fine and Performing Arts offers curricular and co-curricular opportunities for the study of Theater Arts beginning in Grade 8. The Belmont High School Theater program has received several awards from the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild for the work of individual students as well as the overall quality of its productions.

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Mission Statement

To educate all students in a supportive, nurturing and challenging environment by providing them with the skills, knowledge and opportunities for expression in art, music drama and dance that enable them to participate actively as consumers and makers of the arts in a diverse global community.

K-12 Department Learning Goals

  • Creating: Students will learn to use the symbolic languages, structures, materials and techniques of the four arts disciplines (music, visual art, drama and dance) to create works of art. 
  • Performing: Students will apply skills in singing, reading music, playing instruments, acting, directing, dancing and exhibition (visual art) to interpret and share artwork that already exists, including their own. 
  • Perceiving and Responding: Students will demonstrate their ability to critically respond with understanding when they describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate their own artwork and the artwork or others. 
  • Connections: Students will demonstrate understanding of their artistic heritage through investigation of the historical and cultural contexts of the arts, will demonstrate knowledge of the arts in their community, and apply knowledge of the arts in the study of other disciplines.

Guiding Beliefs

  • An effective and challenging arts curriculum provides students with opportunities to perform and create in art, music, drama and dance; perceive and respond to each of the arts disciplines; understand the role of the arts in our heritage and cultures past and present, near and far; understand the nature of the arts, and make connections between the arts and other disciplines.
  • Through education in the arts, students learn modes of personal expression; they imaginatively communicate and share ideas, approach the challenges of artistic expression with ingenuity, develop intellectual curiosity, and perceive the world around them in ways that are unique to the arts.
  • All students can learn in and through the arts and are entitled to challenging and sequential curricula in grades K-12, taught during the regular school day by a highly qualified faculty in each of those disciplines. The arts curricula include general art and music in grades K-8, instrumental and choral music in grades 3-12, studio/performance based electives in grades 8-12 and non-performance based electives in grades 9-12.
  • All students are entitled to opportunities during the school day to develop proficiency in at least two of the arts disciplines in grades K-8 and in at least one arts discipline over at least two years of study at the high school level.
  • An effective program in the arts is supported by adequate resources, instructional time and a highly qualified faculty.
  • The arts are most worthy of study for their intrinsic value, yet at the same time can enhance learning in other disciplines.
  • Through education in the arts all students are provided with unique opportunities for personal growth and social development, and can engage with confidence and skill in the life of the broader school community.