Beginning with language, reading, and computational skills, which are progressively investigated, expanded, and internalized from Kindergarten through Eighth Grades, the BPC curriculum feeds secondary socialization and the growing emotional needs of the child. Subjects and themes lightly touched upon return to be later developed in greater breadth and depth. Confidence and skills grow as familiar areas are expanded, and slowly the foundations of a Zeitundweltanshauung are laid down. Once again how something is learned is more important than that which is learned. Here the learning is from example and from encouraged social behavior.
Students are to respect each other, their environment and the staff.
Each person in the school must feel safe enough to be vulnerable, to make mistakes, to venture opinions and to experiment without fear. As with the school day, where social and emotional development is as important as intellectual development, so it is with homework. Never set as rote learning or as busywork, homework springs organically from the work in class, consolidating what has been done and preparing for what is to come. Above all BPC seeks teachers who have a passion for teaching - that is, persons who want and can excite and inspire a love of learning in their students. They must have a respect for and an understanding of the special peculiarities of their charges.