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School The Middle School is an environment rich with opportunities for exploration, leadership, achievement, and self-discovery. Gradually, the program becomes completely departmentalized with students receiving instruction in English, history, science, mathematics (pre-algebra and algebra), foreign language (Latin or Spanish), physical education and the arts. Our English curriculum includes vocabulary development, spelling, grammar, creative and expository writing and literature. Bible is taught in sixth grade, World Religions in seventh and Ethics in eighth. The religion curriculum enables students to apply Biblical and spiritual values garnered in the Lower School to circumstances of contemporary life. Students are encouraged to develop an appreciation of values important to them and to grow in understanding their own faith. Grace-St. Luke's provides laptop computers on mobile carts for use in the middle school classrooms. These computers operate within the school's wireless network. There are additional desktop computers available for student use in the classrooms and in the school library. Students in middle school are taught keyboarding, word processing and other computer literacy skills, so that by the time they graduate they are comfortably interacting with today's technology on a daily basis. Middle school students in the fall are taken off-campus for a daylong retreat to build class unity and form close bonds between faculty and students. In addition, each spring, at the conclusion of the school year, each class goes on an extensive three to five day trip to an outdoor educational center (fifth), Chattanooga (sixth), Chicago (seventh), or the Nantahala and Ocoee Rivers of North Carolina (eighth). Grace-St. Luke's encourages middle school students to develop leadership skills through participation in the Honor Society, Student Council, or Honor Council. The opportunity to hold such responsibilities helps adolescents develop independence, confidence and self-esteem. They also are responsible for publishing a yearbook, a school newspaper and literary magazine. The head of middle school and the director of admissions help parents in high school placement. Our sought-after graduates attend the best public and independent secondary schools in Memphis as well as boarding schools across the country. |
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