Middle School

In the Middle School, we teach how to “read and write” – to “read a situation and write their future, becoming artistic human beings of initiative..
From the cocoon of the primary years, they start to emerge and find their wings. The teacher allows for an opening for the children to gently meet the world – still sheltered from the ugliness, but starting to exercise a growing autonomy in their engagement with the immediate world around them. Rules make for a greater allowance, as there emerges in the children a questioning of authority.

The children are hungry to engage with their growing intellectual capacity, and this reflects in the subjects we bring to them in these years.

The sciences demand greater precision, observation and analysis, with the first foray into experiments; we explore acoustics, optics, thermodynamics and electricity. In mathematics, we begin the transition to algebra, and a deepening of geometric concepts.

Language arts asks for more awareness and understanding of grammar – the form, function and syntax of language illuminating thought; the children are challenged by independent longer form writing work.

Having had their first encounter with History, the children are now ready to step into the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – a time that typifies our growing teen’s own inner scape, as they seek to understand and know the world, just like the Renaissance period did.