From the December 6, 2007 issue of The Cape Codder

Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School news: Art education

Art at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School has been developed across the curriculum.

Science, language arts, social studies and math curricula have art components in lessons taught to students throughout the year. Art improves observational and communication skills as well as teaching students to think creatively to solve problems.

Throughout history, great artists have been scientists and scientists, artists. We only need to think of the valuable work carried out by Leonardo Da Vinci and explorers Lewis and Clark, among so many others throughout history who carried out research and art to complete their data.

The value of art education is clear. Recently, students at CCLCS took part in an art show at Cape Cod Museum of Art. The art show "Spanning the Years" will be on display through Dec. 12 in the education center at the museum in Dennis. The exhibit features kindergarten through Grade 12 students from Cape Cod and the Islands school districts. Students from CCLCS whose work was selected were Kianna Suchecki, Michaela Kelly, Morgan Mindrebo, Aodhan Hemeon-McMahon and Robert Marcantonio.

Rhiannon Thibeau, an eighth-grader at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School, has been awarded first prize by Newspapers in Education for a photograph she entered in the organization's "Faces of Freedom" photojournalim contest. The contest challenged students to photograph a representation of one of the constitutional freedoms found in the First Amendment.

Rhiannon's photograph placed first in the Freedom of Expression Category. Sixth-grader Jon Cabot was also a finalist in the contest with his photograph, which represented Freedom of the Press. They were among 10 CCLCS students studying photojournalism at the school.