The ELA curriculum is guided by the Common Core Learning Standards and includes instruction in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Collections curriculum inspires teachers' creative instructional choices by providing a plethora of unique resources—fully supported by point-of-use scaffolding—that make teaching exciting. Collections creates passionate student readers with texts that matter to them, and their engagement with the texts inspires them to become critical readers, writers, and thinkers. Collections' classrooms are current, creative, and challenging.

• Dramatic historical stories, contemporary events, and multi-genre and leveled texts ensure that content is age appropriate and always engaging for students.
• Instruction facilitates meaningful conversations about the texts to promote inquiry and active learning, helping students with annotation, analysis, and creative thinking.
• Online tools help students revise, evaluate, and incorporate text evidence and foster both peer and teacher feedback.
• Performance tasks and mentor texts offer practice and support to hone listening, articulate speaking, and writing skills.

The Math in Focus program is a rigorous and challenging comprehensive curriculum for grades 6 through 8. The program follows the pedagogical framework developed by the Singapore Ministry of Education: emphasizing concept mastery, a concrete-visual-symbolic approach, metacognitive reasoning, and the use of model drawing to solve and justify problems. It supports the Common Core State Standards. In fact, the writers of the Common Core State Standards used the Math in Focus curriculum as a model.

Course 1 (6th grade) Units include: Rational Numbers, Fractions & Decimals, Ratios & Rates, Algebraic Expressions, Equations & Inequalities, Geometry, and Statistics.

Course 2 (7th grade) Units include: Rational Number Operations, Algebraic Expressions, Algebraic Equations and Inequalities, Ratios & Proportionality, Geometry, and Statistics & Probability.

Course 3 (8th grade) Units include: Real Numbers & Expressions, Algebraic Expressions, Algebraic Equations, Functions, Geometry, and Statistics & Probability.

The overall aim of the study of science in the Middle School is to deliver an effective student-centered programme that engages students kinesthetically and cognitively in a rich and rigorous inquiry-driven laboratory programme. Students will study Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, which will give them a strong foundation in scientific literacy, along with sound knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts, theories and processes. The programme provides students with opportunities to expand, change, enhance, and modify the ways in which they view the world. Students actively participate in safe, hands-on, scientific investigations and develop the skills associated with the formation of scientific explanations. For many children, this is their first opportunity to experience working in a fully-equipped laboratory environment, and our Science team captures this excitement and wonder. Middle School is a safe and welcoming environment specifically designed to engage, challenge, and inspire our early adolescents.

The social studies curriculum meets the common core standards. Students study ancient civilizations(6th grade), World Geography (7th grade), and U.S. history (8th grade).

 

Middle School students are offered the opportunity to experience a wide variety of sporting and physical activities. PE fosters the development of knowledge, skills and attributes that will contribute to a balanced and healthy lifestyle. The curriculum is balanced to include individual and team sports incorporating a variety of transferable skills, techniques and conceptual understanding. We want our Middle School students to experience the satisfaction of performing an activity well whilst developing a greater understanding of their bodies and how they can use them to express themselves. Ultimately we want students to develop passion and love for physical activity and understand the life-long benefits that sport offers their physical and emotional well-being.