Middle School
Grades 6-8
Developing Critical Thinking Skills
Saint Thomas’ Episcopal Middle School curriculum builds on principles of personal responsibility and citizenship as introduced during a child’s Lower School years. Our Middle School serves as a safe place during a critical time in the development of a child’s personal identity. Students enhance their abilities in time management, independent versus team-based collaboration, and connected thinking throughout their academic day. Logistically, students have different teachers by subject, and teachers facilitate adjustment to different teaching styles throughout the day. Students select their own electives from a broad range of possibilities, including dance, foreign languages, and oral performance. Various clubs and class trips supplement the traditional education offered at Saint Thomas’, catering to student creativity and class bonding.
For more information, download our Middle School curriculum. You can also view the Middle School math sequence of classes.
Vu has an extensive background in education with years of public school experience at YES Prep Public Schools and Baker Ripley Promise Community Schools and River Oaks Baptist School. He has held various roles, including teaching science (grades 5–8), After-School Director, Athletic Director, 6th-grade Science Teacher, Grade-Level Chair, GT Coordinator, and Middle School Dean. Currently, he serves as the Head of Middle School and Interim Head of Lower School at STE. For three summers, he also worked as the Math and Science Instructional Coach for Breakthrough Houston.
Vu holds a B.S. from the University of Houston and an M.Ed. from UT-Arlington. His hobbies include traveling, being outdoors, and staying active. He deeply values the close-knit, family-oriented community at STE, where working alongside family and friends makes the school a truly special place.