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Continuing to integrate across traditional academic disciplines, the Middle
School curriculum for Grades 4-8 is an immersion into collaboration and
affirmation. With small class sizes, advisory groups, and learning specialists,
there is as much attention paid to the student as to the education.Actively
making choices, constantly gaining confidence
Activities like drama club, math club, art club, instrumental lessons,
athletics, chorus, handbells, literary magazine, student council and language
clubs - many of which meet during school hours - give students the option to
strengthen old interests or develop new ones. The reality of prioritization and
commitment is taught. The meaning of friendship and the issues of inclusion are
also part of a Hewitt education. Extended field trips, the Life Skills social
competency program, the Project Prepare Program and vibrant community service
projects combine to teach our students to trust their friends...along with
themselves. One curriculum with many ways to learn
Our core academic program assures a strong grounding in humanities,
mathematics, science, foreign languages, and the arts and technology. Integration
is the key. Reading, writing and the study of history are seamlessly interwoven
to reinforce each other. In turn, these humanities classes become reference
points for learning mathematics, technology and the arts. Organizational,
writing and mathematical skills are examined within a structured context, while
hands-on labs and science course work inform critical and analytical thinking.
Technology stimulates foreign language instruction with high-speed internet
resources building French or Spanish skills; forays into multi-ethnic New York
City put those language skills to real-life use. Through it all, what is
seen, heard, read and spoken is written into journals, painted onto
canvases, expressed through music and transformed into theater.
And so much more
that can't be measured
A dozen sports teams and a "no-cut" sports policy ensure that any student who
wants to play, can. The emphasis of our complete physical, nutritional,
and health instruction is always on understanding the issues and the consequences of
different decisions. 'Tactics' classes teach effective learning strategies.
'Life Skills' classes teach ethical behavior and taking responsibility for
one's actions. And the school itself - libraries, labs, teachers, students,
stairwells and hallways - become a backdrop for the student to put all she's
experiencing into action.
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