Lower School

“Faith Formation” is our Christian Education program for the pre-K– 4th grades. The instructor utilizes the Episcopal Children’s curriculum. The classes focus mainly on the biblical stories and the virtues they teach. We work on living and working together and honoring the differences that make us all special. This is a Christian Formation program that each student participates in each week with his or her class.

Intermediate School

We have Christian Education for the 5th and 6th grades as well. It is a weekly class that focuses on how, as people of God we live and work together in community. At this age level we work on many aspects of social and emotional learning in the context of Christian education. Much of what we use comes from Creating Classrooms and Homes of Virtue from the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education. The classes are led by the Chaplain along with the staff of Christ Episcopal Church.

Middle School

7th Grade
A new curriculum, “Covenant Living: 7th Grade Survey of the Old Covenant,” developed by our Chaplain, The Rev. Brandon Peete, will be introduced this year. This curriculum utilizes the overarching theme of Covenant as portrayed through the Hebrew Bible. Each week, as detailed below, a new theme will be explored in light of living into this covenant:

1. Narrative
2. Identity
3. Leadership
4. Water
5. Prophecy
6. Wisdom
7. Exile
8. Good/Evil
9. Temple
10. Sacrifice

Each theme will be approached from various perspectives: artistic interpretation, small-group Scripture nuggets, class Scripture, and theological implications. Naturally, these perspectives will be seen with an “Episcopal” lens. At the end of this 12-week cycle, we hope our 7th grade students will catch a glimpse of “Covenant Living.”

8th Grade
A new curriculum, “Kingdom Living: 8th Grade Survey of the New Covenant,” developed by our Chaplain, The Rev. Brandon Peete, will be introduced this year. This curriculum utilizes the overarching theme of Kingdom as portrayed through the New Covenant. Each week, as detailed below, a new theme will be explored in light of living into this covenant:

1. Narrative
2. Identity
3. Leadership
4. Water
5. Prophecy
6. Wisdom
7. Exile
8. Good/Evil
9. Temple
10. Sacrifice

Each theme will be approached from various perspectives: artistic interpretation, small-group Scripture nuggets, class Scripture, and theological implications. Naturally, these perspectives will be seen with an “Episcopal” lens. At the end of this 12-week cycle, we hope our 8th grade students will catch a glimpse of “Kingdom Living.”

Upper School

The Senior Theology class is a yearlong class currently team team-taught by the Chaplain and the Head of Upper School. Senior Theology, literally, is the study of God by 12thgraders. We will approach this study with an exploration of self in order to understand how we are likely to encounter the divine. This study will not only focus on various Christian understandings of God, but will place these understandings within the context of an historical, global, and cultural worldview of the divine. Students will be formed to investigate, responsibly ask questions, and engage Holy Scripture alongside a conversant community. These discussions will inevitably explore the God that continues to create and re-create, even today.