Come September, there will be four new courses offered to students at New Westminster Secondary.
The school board authorized courses include foundations of coaching 12; bicycle maintenance and repair 12; history through film 12; and musical theatre. These courses are pet projects for a group of teachers at the high school; they were required to develop the curriculums and submit them to the district for approval.
The teachers behind the musical theatre program are especially excited to get started in the fall. The new program offers students a choice between three different streams: stage performance, orchestra or production, but it will be taught as a whole so that students get exposure to all facets of musical theatre production, noted a press release from the high school.
The courses, which were approved at the board’s Feb. 23 meeting, will be available to students when they register for fall classes. Whether all four courses run or not depends on how many students register.
