Middle School 7-8 Grades | Independent School for Girls in Washington, DC
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Middle School 7-8 Grades | Independent School for Girls in Washington, DC
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Middle School (7&8)
Thriving in a Time of Transition
While establishing a superb grounding in core and specialized subjects, Middle School girls tackle the complexity of adolescence through an intentional and proactive approach to social and emotional wellness.
Middle School is often a time when students begin to chart their own path of intellectual, emotional, social, and physical transformation. Gifted and devoted teachers attend to every aspect of this journey and create courageous spaces for girls to practice leadership, challenging themselves and one another, exploring new interests, and reaching beyond their comfort zones. Girls tackle such critical issues as gender, power, identity, bias, and difference, both in their own lives and in global contexts—whether linking classroom learning to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or travel opportunities to Costa Rica with classmates.
Students leave Middle School having taken important risks vital to their intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual, and moral learning and growth.
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Learn More About Middle School
Over the course of their two years in Middle School, we aim to nurture students to emerge as strong writers and communicators, thoughtful advocates for themselves and others, creative problem-solvers and global thinkers, ready to take on their years in Upper School and beyond with enthusiasm and confidence.
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Beyond the Classroom
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Community Engagement and Student Life
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Joyful Exploration and Empowerment
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Middle School at-a-Glance
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Seminar
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Social and Emotional Wellness
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Student-Teacher Connections
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Traditions
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Learn Well
Live Well
Lead Well
Programmatically, Learn Well, Live Well, Lead Well (LW3) is the framework for building Holton’s curriculum. It allows teachers to stretch the work they do with students beyond traditional academics and is rooted in the institutional priorities of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; health and wellbeing; and global education.
Holton’s middle school nurtures a love of lifelong learning, tenacity of purpose, intellectual curiosity and interdisciplinary thinking while ensuring that students build core skills across disciplines while establishing key study and organizational skills.
The middle school curriculum places an emphasis on developing superlative writing skills. Students strengthen their analytical ability, reading comprehension and logical progression of ideas.
Gifted and devoted middle school teachers create safe spaces for students to challenge themselves, explore new interests and reach beyond their comfort zones.
A wide array of outstanding arts offerings allows students to perform and innovate while developing creative-thinking and problem-solving skills.
While establishing a strong grounding in core and specialized subjects, the middle school program embraces and honors the complexity of adolescence through an intentional and proactive approach to social and emotional wellness.
Small advisory groups provide safe spaces for students to interact with a caring adult on a regular basis. Seminar, an integrated, interdisciplinary, spiraling school-wide curriculum, helps students build a solid and healthy sense of identity by developing skills of self-awareness and empathy–asking such questions as, “Who am I and how do I relate to others, both in my community and throughout the larger world?”
Our goal is for students to leave middle school as confident, creative problem-solvers who know how to iterate and are comfortable with failure—and who are able to do all this with a global mindset.
Throughout their middle school experience, students tackle critical issues such as gender, power, identity, bias and difference, both in their own lives and global contexts whether linking classroom learning to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or traveling with classmates to New Orleans or Belize. All the while, students are nurturing personal integrity and a sense of responsibility that will help them to make wise and ethical choices.
This work seeks to ensure students can thrive in school and in life, growing into leaders who will make the world a better place.
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Middle School (7&8)
Thriving in a Time of Transition
While establishing a superb grounding in core and specialized subjects, Middle School girls tackle the complexity of adolescence through an intentional and proactive approach to social and emotional wellness.
Middle School is often a time when students begin to chart their own path of intellectual, emotional, social, and physical transformation. Gifted and devoted teachers attend to every aspect of this journey and create courageous spaces for girls to practice leadership, challenging themselves and one another, exploring new interests, and reaching beyond their comfort zones. Girls tackle such critical issues as gender, power, identity, bias, and difference, both in their own lives and in global contexts—whether linking classroom learning to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or travel opportunities to Costa Rica with classmates.
Students leave Middle School having taken important risks vital to their intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual, and moral learning and growth.
Example
Middle School Schedule
Learn More About Middle School
Over the course of their two years in Middle School, we aim to nurture students to emerge as strong writers and communicators, thoughtful advocates for themselves and others, creative problem-solvers and global thinkers, ready to take on their years in Upper School and beyond with enthusiasm and confidence.
Explore Middle School curriculum
Advisory
Explore
about Advisory
Beyond the Classroom
Explore
about Beyond the Classroom
Community Engagement and Student Life
Explore
about Community Engagement and Student Life
Joyful Exploration and Empowerment
Explore
about Joyful Exploration and Empowerment
Middle School at-a-Glance
Explore
about Middle School at-a-Glance
Seminar
Explore
about Seminar
Social and Emotional Wellness
Explore
about Social and Emotional Wellness
Student-Teacher Connections
Explore
about Student-Teacher Connections
Traditions
Explore
about Traditions
Learn Well
Live Well
Lead Well
Programmatically, Learn Well, Live Well, Lead Well (LW3) is the framework for building Holton’s curriculum. It allows teachers to stretch the work they do with students beyond traditional academics and is rooted in the institutional priorities of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; health and wellbeing; and global education.
Holton’s middle school nurtures a love of lifelong learning, tenacity of purpose, intellectual curiosity and interdisciplinary thinking while ensuring that students build core skills across disciplines while establishing key study and organizational skills.
The middle school curriculum places an emphasis on developing superlative writing skills. Students strengthen their analytical ability, reading comprehension and logical progression of ideas.
Gifted and devoted middle school teachers create safe spaces for students to challenge themselves, explore new interests and reach beyond their comfort zones.
A wide array of outstanding arts offerings allows students to perform and innovate while developing creative-thinking and problem-solving skills.
While establishing a strong grounding in core and specialized subjects, the middle school program embraces and honors the complexity of adolescence through an intentional and proactive approach to social and emotional wellness.
Small advisory groups provide safe spaces for students to interact with a caring adult on a regular basis. Seminar, an integrated, interdisciplinary, spiraling school-wide curriculum, helps students build a solid and healthy sense of identity by developing skills of self-awareness and empathy–asking such questions as, “Who am I and how do I relate to others, both in my community and throughout the larger world?”
Our goal is for students to leave middle school as confident, creative problem-solvers who know how to iterate and are comfortable with failure—and who are able to do all this with a global mindset.
Throughout their middle school experience, students tackle critical issues such as gender, power, identity, bias and difference, both in their own lives and global contexts whether linking classroom learning to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or traveling with classmates to New Orleans or Belize. All the while, students are nurturing personal integrity and a sense of responsibility that will help them to make wise and ethical choices.
This work seeks to ensure students can thrive in school and in life, growing into leaders who will make the world a better place.
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