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About
About
We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child. Students here are active partners in their education, and learning is joyful.
Academics
Academics
From its inception, Burgundy has educated children in innovative ways. Our students learn by doing. The school community and its two campuses offer a nurturing atmosphere that inspire creativity through the arts and develop critical thinking skills with an integrated curriculum and hands-on projects.
Admission
Admission
Burgundy educates children from Junior Kindergarten through grade 8. The admission process begins in the fall prior to the year in which a student enrolls.
B for Burgundy
Community
Community
Burgundy doesn’t just refer to our school or our campuses. Burgundy is a beloved community.
The Burgundy Difference
Burgundy Difference
The Burgundy community is united by its commitment to creating a learning community that affirms children for who they are and where they are developmentally and that helps all our students realize their full potential as students and as people.
Giving
Giving
The Burgundy that our students and families love and enjoy today is the product of a handful of families doing together what none could have done individually: purchasing land, rehabilitating and raising buildings, hiring a professional faculty.
Academics
Academics
Middle School
Middle School
Welcome to the Middle School! Burgundy’s Middle School has a strong feeling of community, high levels of academic engagement, and effectively prepares students for success and leadership in high school and beyond. Honoring each individual as a unique learner, experienced Middle School educators take students on a journey from high organizational support as an incoming sixth grader to greater independence and self-knowledge as a graduating eighth grader. The Middle School experience is a balance of content knowledge and skills that foster motivation, resourcefulness, goal setting, and worldly perspective-taking.
Throughout the Middle School journey, experiential learning beyond the classroom is a regular part of our program. Whether studying the historical artifacts in Alexandria, using our on-campus pond for water studies, or exploring nature and sustainability at our West Virginia campus, we understand that students learn best when experiences are based in real-world application.
Ultimately, our goal is for Burgundy graduates to feel empowered to make positive contributions to their communities and to continue down a path of lifelong learning.
I invite you to visit us to better understand what makes the Middle School journey at Burgundy so special.
Jared Givarz
Middle School Head
Sixth Grade
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Eighth Grade
Sixth Grade at Burgundy
Being the first year of the Middle School journey, sixth grade is a time of transition, and significant time is spent on organizational and executive functioning skills. Small advisory groups of just 10 or 11 students allow each individual to be well-known and provides a point of contact for academic and social-emotional support. As the sixth-grade year unfolds, students take on more abstract concepts and are expected to read, write, analyze, and discuss at higher levels of sophistication. The “Burgundy on Broadway” play performance, trips to the Cove, and water studies on the Potomac River are just a few of the student-centered learning activities that round out an exciting sixth-grade experience.
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Seventh Grade at Burgundy
Building off of the organizational and analytical strides made during sixth grade, seventh graders are now asked to expand their thinking beyond their direct community and take worldly perspectives that nurture greater empathy and compassion. Seventh graders extend their reasoning abilities and develop greater independence and autonomy by analyzing text, participating in lively debates, engaging in hands-on explorations, and collaboratively grappling with social-emotional challenges. Seventh graders reach new levels of abstraction and need to be more organized with their materials. During the winter trimester, they collaborate on and build community with a full-scale drama production. Finally, to cap off the academic year, they take on new leadership roles as they honor the graduating eighth graders.
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Eighth Grade at Burgundy
Throughout the Middle School journey, students develop important critical thinking and collaboration skills. Then in 8th grade, they really begin to understand themselves as learners and their roles as leaders of the community. Expectations around the quality of their academic work rise to a new level, and students take responsibility to be out in front, leading all-school meetings. Late in the academic year, all eighth graders collaborate on a musical to complete the final dramatic performance of their Burgundy careers.
In late spring of 8th grade, students have three days of outdoor adventure and camping at Calleva Farm in Poolesville, MD where they get ready to say farewell to their longtime friends. Finally, 8th grade students are the directors of their own graduation, planning speeches and performances, and creating a one-of-a-kind ceremony to celebrate their time at Burgundy.
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Burgundy is a one-of-a-kind independent school for Junior Kindergarten through 8th Grade. We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child.
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
703.960.3431
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