Grades 1-8
We find that using multi-age level groups helps us meet the individual needs of children. While we do keep student records using traditional grade levels to aid in the generation of transcripts, our students are grouped into "Forms" according to their ages, abilities, and needs. The teachers and the parents work together to determine the correct placement for a child.
Form 1
Children in Form 1 may range in age from six to about nine. These children are learning to read, to form letters, and to understand basic number operations. Children in this form have most of their books read aloud to them, although that responsibility is given over to them as they are able to handle their own reading, with careful support from their teacher. They orally "narrate" (or tell back) what is read from authors like Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Andrew Lang.
Form 2
Children in Form 2 are generally between the ages of nine or ten to eleven or twelve. They have mastered reading and basic number operations. They read many of their books themselves, and they begin to narrate in writing. Children in this form begin to join the older children in reading three Shakespeare plays each year and studying Latin.
Form 3
Form 3 consists of children between eleven or twelve and thirteen or fourteen (what is typically known as Middle School). They start to explore more abstract concepts and to write narrations, letters, and some essays and poetry. Students who have had at least three years of Spanish will add the study of French.
Form 1
Children in Form 1 may range in age from six to about nine. These children are learning to read, to form letters, and to understand basic number operations. Children in this form have most of their books read aloud to them, although that responsibility is given over to them as they are able to handle their own reading, with careful support from their teacher. They orally "narrate" (or tell back) what is read from authors like Howard Pyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Andrew Lang.
Form 2
Children in Form 2 are generally between the ages of nine or ten to eleven or twelve. They have mastered reading and basic number operations. They read many of their books themselves, and they begin to narrate in writing. Children in this form begin to join the older children in reading three Shakespeare plays each year and studying Latin.
Form 3
Form 3 consists of children between eleven or twelve and thirteen or fourteen (what is typically known as Middle School). They start to explore more abstract concepts and to write narrations, letters, and some essays and poetry. Students who have had at least three years of Spanish will add the study of French.