Extracurriculars
The school offers visual arts and drama in every grade, highlighted at an Art & Drama Show at each school. In May 2008, the first graders presented Pinocchio Goes To School, in costume, with all lines memorized. The kindergarteners joined grades 2–3 in staging a 45-minute version of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Grades 4–5 did The Taming of the Shrew in Shakespeare's original iambic pentameter. Middle school students put on Arabian Nights, grades 9–10 performed Knights of the Rad Table, and the juniors and seniors presented The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood.
Music is an equally important part of life at Liberty. Choir is required through eighth grade and elective afterward, with the Cantamus Christi group (pictured above) open to grades 9–12 by audition. Band is offered at both the Upper and Lower Schools beginning in fourth grade. All music groups perform at the All-School Christmas Program in December, the Annual Band/Choir Concert, and Graduation.
Liberty has a well stocked library, helped by a $10,000 award from retail chain Target that was the subject of a full-page ad in Newsweek magazine.
The school's numerous social activities include field trips to museums, bowling excursions, Harvest Festival, literary "Character Day", hayrides, theater nights, ice skating, and an all-school day of skiing and snowboarding each February. The Upper School has a Spring Formal, and the senior class goes on a retreat each fall.
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