Mayfield Junior School Celebrates the Arts

Traditionally, the month of May at Mayfield Junior School is appropriately dedicated to the arts. This year students could not contain their excitement to express their creativity. The celebration lasted a few more days than usual as a result.

Whether singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, or playing instruments, the visual and performing arts are valued and embedded into Mayfield’s educational program each day. As a Holy Child school, perhaps Cornelia Connelly, the founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, said it best, “…Art is one of the most important branches of education, second only to the art of speaking and writing, and in some respects even beyond the languages, as it is in itself a universal language.”

View the many opportunities for creative expression throughout Mayfield’s Lower School and Middle School towards the end of the school year: Live Stations of the Cross led by the 6th Grade along with 3rd Grade Sacred Dancers; the 8th Grade Musical “Children of Eden”; the 90th Anniversary Mass featuring Chamber and Concert Choirs; the popular Art Show, an impressive gallery of student work held in the Greg Smith Memorial Gymnasium; the 5th Grade Musical “Oliver Jr.”; Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day Mass featuring the 3rd Grade Choir; Kindergarten’s Noah’s Ark Play; the Spring Concert featuring Concert and Chamber Choirs, MJS Orchestra, and Rock Band; and the First Grade Musical “Friendly Neighborhood Helpers.”

About Mayfield Junior School

Founded in 1931 by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and located adjacent to historic Old Pasadena, Mayfield Junior School is a leading Catholic Independent coeducational school serving Kindergarten to Eighth-Grade students. Mayfield is distinguished by the Holy Child educational philosophy of developing the Whole Child as an intellectual, spiritual, creative, and athletic person. Mayfield’s educational program best prepares students for high school and beyond. Learn more at www.mayfieldjs.org.