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Class Offerings
Our classes cover a wide range of subjects and are designed to provide a well-rounded education for homeschooling students grades K-12th.
In addition to quality core classes (literature, mathematics, foreign language, English composition, science and civics) we are proud to offer art and nature study, poetry, drawing, creative arts/life skills, physical education, folk singing/dancing, choir, and ballet (through the Staunton Ballet Academy).
Students are generally divided in classes by grade groupings (Kindergarten, 1st-3rd, 4th-5th, 6-8th, and High School), and meet in larger groups for lunch, recess and some enrichment classes. Additionally, there is flexibility for families as to which days/courses they choose to attend.
Our
Philosophy
We take for our guides educators who understand the classical tradition, which aims to teach a person how to reason and communicate the truth which he logically concludes. A classical education helps a child understand what it means to be human, by drawing on the wisdom of the ages, which is conveyed through the study of the liberal arts—and not to simply make him a knower of facts.
We seek to inspire a love for all that is good, and true, and beautiful. We believe that children respond to beauty--we seek to enliven that response through prayer, adoration and mass in our beautiful church, our art study classes, through the beauty of words in our poetry and recitation classes; and the beauty of music through our choir, and through the great medium of literature that speaks of the universal human condition, and inspires students to naturally align themselves with the good.
Quotes that inspire our educational philosophy
“How does a child fall in love with virtue? By being exposed to the right kind of stories, music and art, said Plato. Such education helps a child develop the right sort of likes and dislikes, and without those dispositions it won’t matter how much formal training in ethics a youngster later receives.... This is why books are so important for moral education. They inspire a love of goodness.”
"And imagination is one of the keys to virtue. It is not enough to know what’s right. It’s also necessary to desire to do right. Desire, in turn, is directed to a large extent by imagination.”
Books that Build Character by William Kilpatrick and Gregory and Suzanne M. Wolfe
“... Charlotte Mason ensured that the child was read to. Not isolated little stories but really good books, chapter by chapter. Those fortunate pupils had stories about all sorts of things—biographies of historical figures, works of literature, stories about far away places, fables, stories about animals and birds.”
“All this reading isn’t crammed in. After just one story, the little child tells back what he has heard, in his own words. Charlotte Mason called this ‘narration.’ It is wonderful that the mind that has heard can now express the interest and knowledge in the child’s own words.”
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum by Laura Berquist
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
Home Education by Charlotte Mason
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
Let Boys Become Men: The Need for All Male Education, article by Anthony Esolen
Further Reading
