Our faculty work to foster a sense of responsibility in students and give their adolescent energy a positive focus. The curriculum includes humanities, mathematics, science, foreign language, the arts, physical education, health, computers, and an advisory period. As in other divisions, classwork and activities are integrated around a focused course of study. Field study, overnight trips, and guest visitors round out the Middle School curriculum. Fifth graders remain in a modified homeroom-based program that is geared toward the mastery of basic skills in reading, language arts, mathematics, and social studies.
Science is taught separately.
Units of study at this grade level use an interdisciplinary approach, integrating both content and skills from each of the disciplines. In the sixth grade, humanities is an integrated program including language arts and history, while the math and science curricula are departmentalized. In the seventh and eighth grades, the academic program becomes completely departmentalized and emphasizes both the conceptual and concrete understanding of the material studied. Students are taught to perceive critically, classify and synthesize new data, solve problems, and form judgments in the humanities, the arts, and the sciences. Organization and study skills are addressed throughout the Middle School years within the context of each student's content area classes.