Middle School Curriculum Guide

The middle school experience is a vital transition from childhood to adolescence. Our program recognizes the unique needs of each grade level along this transitional path and offers appropriate challenges tailored to each level. We direct our efforts at helping students learn to focus their academic, artistic, athletic, social, and emotional energies into constructive, creative, and responsible channels. Because of the critical nature of these years in a child’s development, our middle school faculty and administration actively stress the healthy development of behaviors and skills that can contribute to success in all areas of the student’s life. To further this goal, each student is assigned an advisor who is part of that grade-level team. The advisor confers with both the student and the parents throughout the year. The middle school program offers numerous and diverse opportunities in academics, athletics, and the arts. We encourage students to participate in a variety of activities as a way to foster new interests and to interact with more of their middle school peers. Regular and frequent meetings among teachers result in an emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching at all grade levels.