Students also learn about various cultural celebrations and engage in mapwork. The course promotes a balance between content and skills. Multi-media resources, guest speakers, fields trips, and local resources are utilized to enhance learning experiences. The upper school course emphasizes the acquisition of historical and geographical skills. In Grade 6, students examine the origins of civilization and their cultural legacy.
Students use A Message of Ancient Days as their basic text.
The grade 7 course deals with the rise of modern individualized civilization. Grade 8 students participate in a history course using as a main resource A History of the Modern World. This course examines causes for social, political, and economic change over time. Case studies are drawn from European, North American, and Asian countries. The Grade 9 social studies course focuses on asian studies.