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Please contact your student’s school for additional information on summer programming.
Incoming students in 6th – 12th grades
Tara HS
Description: Designed for students who have previous instruction in bad courses, both middle and high school. The session will provide a wide range of engaging activities to reinforce and further students’ musical skills. Activities will allow curious students to study topics in-depth by discovering new concepts through musical play and exchanging ideas with their intellectual peers. Some activities include: proper mouth, hand, and body positioning; care of the instrument; more advanced rhythms; chromatic notes/rudiments; tuning with others; articulations/sticking/rhythms.
Purpose: To further students’ musical knowledge and skills within the framework of band music making.
Incoming 5th – 12th grade students
Tara HS
Description: Students will experience a wide range of engaging activities that reinforce and further students’ musical skills including chromatic notes, tuning with others, proper bowing, double stops, ear training, and pizzicato.
Purpose: To further students’ musical knowledge and skills in orchestra strings
Students in Transition
Claiborne ES
Description: The program consists of academics, enrichment activities, and field trips designed to enhance cultural development, and lessons provided by community partners.
Purpose: To serve homeless students and students who are performing below grade level expectations in grades Pre-K through 5th with reserved spots for homeless students.
Incoming Kindergarteners
Crestworth Early Learning Center, Capitol ES, Cedarcrest-Southmoor ES, Claiborne ES, LaSalle ES, Magnolia Woods ES, McKinley ES, Park Forest ES, Riveroaks ES, Ryan ES, and Woodlawn ES
Description: The Kick-Off to Kindergarten program is designed to ensure Pre-K students are engaged in intensive, phonological awareness and phonics instruction.
Purpose: Provide strong literacy foundational skills to promote Kindergarten readiness.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School System and all of its entities (including Career and Technical Education Programs) do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, national origin, disability, or gender in its educational programs and activities (including employment and application for employment), and it is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of gender by Title IX (20 USC 168) and on the basis of disability by Section 504 (42 USC 794). The Title IX Coordinator is Andrew Davis, Director of Risk Management – ADavis6@ebrschools.org, (225) 929-8705, 6550 Sevenoaks Avenue, Room #10, Baton Rouge, LA 70806. The Section 504 Coordinator is Danielle Staten – DStaten@ebrschools.org, (225) 930-5350, 12000 Goodwood Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70815.
