Religion
The subject at the heart of every other subject. The cosmos is an ordered unified whole as it is created in Christ “in Whom all things hold together” (1 Cor 1:17). This reality leads us to worship which is the highest form of knowledge. Religion class is intended to lead the student into a union of faith, prayer, and adoration of God. Through daily religious instruction and Liturgy, with a consistent focus on service and growth in virtue…
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History
The entire setting of the human drama has been and remains the search for answers to the fundamental human questions and the human desire for God. In a classical Catholic curriculum, students are provided the vantage point of Christian revelation which reveals the entire historical span of human activity and its fulfillment in Christ. From the pre-Christian cultures, whose works can be understood within their own setting, all is united in Christ who reconciles all things in Himself…
Read MoreReading/Literature
The language arts are grounded in the art of reading well, speaking well and thinking well. Reading must become both efficient and insightful—the foundation of communication between one mind and another, between the mind and its cultural heritage. Students must both achieve reading fluency in the lower grammar stage (Kinder – 2nd ), as well as a mastery of the English language through grammar (upper grammar stage and logic stage students)…
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Mathematics
The study of the amazing patterns, order, and relationships in the created world are a revelation of the intelligence of its Creator. The mathematical can be seen in science, music, language, art, and logic. In the grammar stage physical counting develops into grouping, place value, and combinations. This foundation provides for the developing in the logic and rhetoric stages the understanding of dimensions…
Read MoreScience/Nature Studies
Science should be studied first with a sense of wonder for the intelligence and meaning we see in the world. Then with our own intelligence, we are able to cooperate with this order in the world, understand its complex change and become stewards of its well-being. This wonder is grounded in the presupposition that all reality is God’s creation. While the act of creation is not an alternative to natural explanations, the doctrine of creation does state what the world is and not how it came to be…
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