The faculty and staff provide knowledge work, which is meaningful to the learners and their community. The students are expected to solve problems and produce quality products that will enable them to increase their competencies to continue learning independently. Children who are interested in these areas will enjoy special experiences and opportunities. At the same time, they will gain a solid academic foundation in language arts, history and social science, art, and physical education. Technology is integrated across all content areas.
Students use a variety of technologies to gather, analyze, and communicate information.
They make decisions on a daily basis about how and what form of technology will be used to demonstrate their learning. As a magnet school we follow the NNPS curriculum and teach the Virginia Standards of Learning. In order for all children to succeed, teachers design and implement curriculum with the following principles in mind. This approach to curriculum provides experiences by focusing, in depth, on central ideas and issues. In math and science, students are inventing and discovering their own knowledge and understanding as they participate in hands-on experiments and activities using inquiry and the scientific method.