Upper School Curriculum Overview
We strive to help our students achieve academic excellence and to develop a lifelong love of learning.
In our Upper School students discover a dynamic and challenging program grounded in the classics and engaged in the modern world. Students are energised by learning and become creative thinkers who can take on the complex questions of today’s interconnected world.
What sets our classes parts? Courses engage students at their stage of adolescent development. Integration of the arts and academics inspires student learning. Direct source material often replaces textbooks. Dedicated teachers lead small, seminar-style classes that foster dialogue, debate, and oratory.
Even the structure of the day, a morning period of intensive academic study called Main Lesson followed by subject lessons, helps students gain a depth and breadth of understanding. The Main Lesson is a two-hour period spanning several weeks. Students immerse themselves in subjects such as Trigonometry or Latin America and really “learn how to learn.”
Subject lessons are year-long courses in the humanities, mathematics, world languages, and music. Students choose a course of study, and many participate in a unique exchange program at Steiner Waldorf high schools abroad. All students take four years of music and art.
Overall, the curriculum exceeds general university admission standards. All students study physics and calculus, for example. Graduates excel at a variety of academic institutions in a wide range of subject matter, becoming young adults who make a difference in the world.
In our Upper School students discover a dynamic and challenging program grounded in the classics and engaged in the modern world. Students are energised by learning and become creative thinkers who can take on the complex questions of today’s interconnected world.
What sets our classes parts? Courses engage students at their stage of adolescent development. Integration of the arts and academics inspires student learning. Direct source material often replaces textbooks. Dedicated teachers lead small, seminar-style classes that foster dialogue, debate, and oratory.
Even the structure of the day, a morning period of intensive academic study called Main Lesson followed by subject lessons, helps students gain a depth and breadth of understanding. The Main Lesson is a two-hour period spanning several weeks. Students immerse themselves in subjects such as Trigonometry or Latin America and really “learn how to learn.”
Subject lessons are year-long courses in the humanities, mathematics, world languages, and music. Students choose a course of study, and many participate in a unique exchange program at Steiner Waldorf high schools abroad. All students take four years of music and art.
Overall, the curriculum exceeds general university admission standards. All students study physics and calculus, for example. Graduates excel at a variety of academic institutions in a wide range of subject matter, becoming young adults who make a difference in the world.
