Published on Alta Community Enrichment (http://altaarts.org)
THE ALTA SCHOOL

The Jordan School District (now Canyons Shool District) opened a one room school in Alta in 2002, it is housed at the Goldminer's Daughter Lodge, ranges from K-8th grades with about 15-20 children.

Read their Blog HERE [1]

ACE has been involved with the school for many years.In 2008-2009 ACE expanded its outreach to the Alta School by hosting art and music teachers, museum and theater field trips to Salt Lake City and arranging extracurricular art and dance activities.  Since 2009, we have financed the language arts & scientific endeavors, hosted educational and dance fieldtrips, as well as monthly art and dance teachers.

A listing of programs ACE has bought to the school

  • Field trip to Kingsbury Hall to see Tap Dogs [2]
  • Field trip to Salt Lake County Hogle Zoo [3]
  • Field trip to Kingsbury Hall to see Vox Lumiere, Phantom of the Opera [4]
  • Monthly Dance classes since 2009
  • Guest artists
  • Recycling class from Momentum Recycling [5]
  • Art teacher for the annual camping trip
  • Art supplies
  • After school art activities
  • Telluride MountainFilm Festival [6]
  • Field trip to Salt Lake City to see Momix Dance [7]
  • Field trip to Utah Museum of Fine Arts to see Monet to Picasso [8]
  • Monthly art classes in winter of 2008-9 and 2009-10 taught by Alex Hardy [9]
  • Presentation drums by Samba Gringa [10]
  • Monthly Recorder classes
  • Weekly general music classes
  • Glass blowing field trip
  • Field Trip to Kingsbury Hall to see Golden Dragon Acrobatics


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Letter of support from Alta School [11]55.96 KB
ACE - Alta Arts Council :: info@AltaArts.org :: 801-742-9712 :: PO BOX 8142, Alta, Utah 84092-8142 :: AltaArts.org

Source URL: http://altaarts.org/about/ourcommunity/AltaSchool

Links:
[1] http://altatude.blogspot.com/
[2] http://www.tapdogs.com.au/
[3] https://www.hoglezoo.org/
[4] http://www.voxlumiere.com/
[5] http://www.momentumrecycling.com/index.php
[6] http://www.mountainfilm.org/tour/
[7] http://www.momix.com/
[8] http://www.umfa.utah.edu/monettopicasso
[9] http://www.alexhardyart.com/
[10] http://www.sambagringa.org/
[11] http://altaarts.org/files/ACE_letterofsupport.pdf