We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of all truth and the foundation for our school. This belief is reiterated through daily attendance at the Chapel service by all students and faculty members. All students learn the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, the Morning Prayer Canticles, and the Ten Commandments, as well as many Bible verses.
As soon as the children are able to read well enough, they follow the daily Chapel lessons in their Bibles. The religious training is the favorite part of the curriculum for many of the children. Moral training is emphasized throughout the Lower School curriculum and is reinforced through the study of the Bible, Psalms, Aesop’s Fables, McGuffey’s Readers, and numerous other texts.
We introduce history in the first and second grades through a study of selected Bible stories. The formal study of history in the third grade begins with the book of Genesis: the creation, the Flood, the patriarchs, and the life of Joseph.