Creative Arts & Technology

Fostering creativity and personal expression

We offer an exciting variety of opportunities for students to express themselves and interpret the world around them through creative arts and design. From our enriched music, drama and arts opportunities to our innovative design technology classes, each girl is able to find the medium that allows her to share her creative energy. Through these experiences, girls develop confidence, flexibility, critical thinking and collaboration skills.

Junior School
Senior School

Junior School

Students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 7 experience curriculum-based arts, including dance, drama, visual art, and instrumental and vocal music. Guided by specialist teachers and instructors, each girl is celebrated for her unique interest.

In Middle School, girls are ready to take on greater performance responsibility, and all of our Grade 6 and 7 students are welcome to participate in our annual musical production.

Students can also choose to participate in various clubs and activities outside of the classroom that can further spark a passion for the arts. Young girls showcase their artistic talents through musical performances, printmaking, photography, and other fun and creative pursuits.

Junior School Opportunities:

Middle School musical
Dance
Instrumental music
Primary and Intermediate Choir
Clubs such as Watercolour Wonders, Clay Creations, Photography, Art Hive, Make It! (textiles)
Visual arts, including visiting artists and field trips to the Vancouver Art Gallery and other local galleries
Design thinking and creation in our makerspace

“I love opening up a new blank page in my sketchbook and letting my creativity flow onto the page as if it was like a stream of water running through rocks and pebbles.”

Jo ’25 | CHS Student

Senior School

Senior School students experience curriculum-based arts and applied skills classes, including visual art, music, drama, textiles, graphic design, information and communications technology, food studies, computer programming and digital film. From Grade 10 to 12, students are encouraged to pursue their interests and passions through our extensive offering of arts electives and Advanced Placement courses.

Students can also choose to participate in various clubs and activities outside of the classroom and throughout the year – ranging from computer programming and robotics to pottery, improv and textiles.

From a choir trip to New York culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall, to class trips to the Vancouver Film Festival, Crofton House School girls have the opportunity to develop themselves as creative thinkers and performers, and spark a lifelong appreciation for the arts.

Senior School Opportunities:

Grade 8–9 annual production
Grade 10-12 annual production (alternates between a play and a musical each year)
VISTA One-Act Play Festival: Students work in small groups to self-direct and rehearse one-act plays, and two plays are selected to present at the annual festival
House Play Festival: House Captains direct and rehearse fun, high-energy mini-productions for all interested students
Protohack Challenge: Students work together to create and present innovative solutions using design thinking and technology
Music ensembles, including choir, band and orchestra, stage band
Annual film festival showcasing students’ work
Clubs: Drama, Stage Band, Studio 65 (Art), Tech Booth, Video

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“The community here is different from what you get doing a play outside of school, because here we're working with our schoolmates. And having amazing teachers and staff—you really get close with people in the school. There's just such a nice community there.”

Lucy ’22 | CHS Student

Grade 10-12 Production
**Murder on the Orient Express**

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of year, but by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

Grade 8-9 Production
**Echoes in the Dark**

Step into a world where every whisper lingers, and every shadow holds a story waiting to be uncovered. More than a play, it was a haunting come to life through five vignettes and one unforgettable finale—a journey to be walked, not just watched.

Grade 6-7 Musical
**Singing in the Rain JR.**

Oh, what a glorious feeling! This family-friendly adaptation of the beloved classic Singin’ in the Rain followed movie star Don Lockwood and his friends as they navigated fame, friendship, and a rapidly changing industry from silent films to “talkies". The show celebrated the magic of movies and reminded us all that “The show must go on!”

Exploring Exposure with Grade 10 Film

There’s no better way to learn about cameras than by getting hands-on. Grade 10 Film students explored the principles of exposure and composition by experimenting, conceptualizing, filming, and editing their own short films!

A Truly Talon-ted Model

From still life to wildlife, the Arts and Applied Design Skills & Technology Department is a wonderful source of creative inspiration. In a unique life drawing experience, students created gestural sketches and detailed drawings of a special feathery guest: Chili the Falcon from Island Raptors on Vancouver Island.