Academic Life: Curriculum
Curriculum
Our curriculum follows the expanding developmental path of children. Our students work toward rigorous group standards and yet, in our small school environment, we have the opportunity to embrace each child’s talents, aspirations and needs. We believe we are best serving our students as learners and leaders when we offer them a dynamic curriculum that uses not “coverage” as its measuring stick but rather “un-coverage.” Developing a strong foundation of skills is critical to us as a means to equip our students with the tools needed for serious investigation and reflection. Enabling students to take ownership of their learning is an ambitious and important goal.
We value being a K-8 school community and intentionally seek to offer this wonderful range of students a continuum of instruction that is authentic, connected and sustaining. We additionally recognize the different needs of our lower school and middle school students and vary program and structure accordingly. K-5 students are primarily taught within a self-contained classroom setting. The Middle School offers a discipline-based team approach.
In the Lower School, instructional experiences include:
In the Middle School, students participate in:
A thorough explanation of Trinity’s middle school program is available online via the “MS Curriculum Guide,” located in the parents’ portal and on the Current Students page of the TES Web site.
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