Aberdeen Hall Preparatory School Kelowna

Our Curriculum

Senior School: Grades 7 - 12

Middle Years Programme at Aberdeen Hall Grades 7 to 9

These middle years are a tremendously important stage for all students and we have designed an excellent programme that includes a focus on exceptional academic, social and emotional development. Our goal is to give the students the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to make the most effective decisions as they enter their adolescent years.

Programme Outline:

Aberdeen Hall's Middle Years Programme is designed to teach our students the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes necessary to have enjoyable and successful high school years, and to ultimately live happy, balanced and purposeful lives.

The Middle Years Programme at Aberdeen Hall is both engaging and empowering. Our rich academic environment is designed to provide the foundation and enrichment necessary for adolescent learners to bridge the transition from elementary to senior school. Our faculty has specialty training and experience in mentoring and motivating adolescents. Small class sizes allow our faculty to design lesson plans that respond to the needs of individual students.

Academic success is supported by an effort to expose our students to the world around them. This experiential learning is accomplished through numerous field trips and outdoor leadership opportunities.

Students at Aberdeen Hall take part in a comprehensive Arts programme which includes Music, Visual Art and Drama. In music, we start the students on a band instrument in Grade Four and continue this instruction through the middle years. To complete the programme, all students participate in four health and physical education classes per week.

Goals:

Provide a rich, accelerated academic programme
Teach the attitudes and values required for them to become compassionate and contributing citizens
Develop an appreciation for the Arts, including drama, music and visual arts
Provide students with wide array of life experiences beyond the classroom setting,

Specific Features:

Personal attention with an excellent student to teacher ratio
Academic programming that exceeds provincial standards
A professional, dedicated and talented faculty
Regularly scheduled field trips
After school clubs and sports
Drama and Band performances
An examination of the works of Shakespeare
"Global Horizons" experiential learning trips for the different grades.
Character-based leadership programmes Speech art enrichment (Spelling Bee, Science Fair, Public Speaking and Debate, Poetry recitation)
Instructional Designs that teach global knowledge, and incorporate traditional pedagogy with inquiry and project based teaching
Student Mentorship programmes

Philosophy:

The transformation from child to young adult occurs during the middle years. Our goal during this time is to continue to build on the solid foundation of knowledge and skills taught in the elementary grades, and teach the students the benefits of empathy, perseverance, hard work, integrity, caring, courtesy, respect and kindness. This can be a confusing and complicated time. Our Middle Years Programme provides opportunities to succeed, and strategies for learning from and dealing with disappointments.

At Aberdeen Hall, we believe in the importance of manners. We teach our students how to be kind and support one another, and how to effectively communicate with adults. We understand that mistakes are made, and that these mistakes can make for valuable learning opportunities.

"MIDDLE YEARS" FEATURES AT THE NEW CAMPUS

We have designated part of the new Junior Hall's second floor to the Middle Years Programme. This section will include specialty labs for Math and Science, and unique classrooms for Languages. We will also have a designated middle student meeting area for recess and study.

Grade 8 is being offered in September 2008

Grade 9 will be offered in September 2009 unless sufficient enquiries warrant proceeding sooner.

Senior Years Programme

We look forward to offering Grades 10 to 12 in the near future.