Hub Quick Hits: Midlands school’s arts ‘field day’

Local school celebrates the arts

A boxer throws a left jabfrom ColaDaily.com

Sack races and water balloons it’s not. A Lexington County school is putting an arts spin on the more established field day concept. More from ColaDaily.com and writer Mercedes Dubberly:

Field days are a tradition at many schools, but Saluda River Academy for the Arts (SRAA) is putting a new spin on it that sticks to the school’s arts magnet mission.

Earlier this month, SRAA held Day of the Arts, an arts-focused “field day.” Students spent the entire school day exploring how the arts standards and concepts they learn in the classroom apply to careers in the arts beyond the classroom. 

Read Dubberly’s full story. Blue ribbons all around, as far as The Hub is concerned.


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