Curriculum Highlights
Saint Brigid School offers a comprehensive curriculum that stresses reading & writing across all content areas and math development. This basic skills approach begins as early as pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. Each grade level curriculum builds on the previous. Study skills are taught and enhanced through all grades. The end result is a comprehensive and challenging pre - k through eighth grade approach to learning. The following are highlights by grade level:
Early Childhood - Pre-K and Kindergarten
- Emphasis on School Readiness
- Reading and mathematics begin
- Hands-on activities allow for creative expression
- Science and Social Studies integrated
- Field Trips enhance curriculum
- Art, music and physical education included
- Stimulating positive learning environment
- Student centered activities that create opportunities to explore, discover, question and succeed.
Primary - Grades 1-3
- Intellectual and emotional nourishment that will match their growing developing powers
- An environment conducive to developing their full potential
- We set out to achieve high levels of academic knowledge
- Qualities and characteristics that will enable these students to successfully face the challenges of higher grades and life in general.
Intermediate School - Grades 4-5
- Continuation of solid core curriculum
- Transition from learning to read to reading to learn
- Enhancement of study skills
- Daily religion classes
- Computer Lab experiences
- Science lab experiences
- Introduction to research process
- Transitional programs for 5th graders as they prepare for middle school
- Addition of extra curricular and athletic programs and clubs
- Interactive developmental programming to accommodate different learning styles
- Weekly specials including art, music, physical education, library
- Extensive fine arts programs
- World Language 1/week
Middle School - Grades 6-8
- Departmentalized middle school experience
- Challenging academic curriculum with advanced courses available such as algebra and writing seminars
- World language offered 2/week
- Weekly specials including art, band, music and physical education
- State-of-the-art science and computer labs
- Science Fair demonstrating scientific method
- Cross-curricular research papers
- Integrated study skills
- Rotating schedule
- Transitional program to prepare students for high school
- Daily religion classes
- Athletic programs and clubs