Curriculum Highlights
Halton Hills Christian School offers a challenging and innovative curriculum. Every subject, from art and music, to math and science, is taught with a biblical basis.
We offer an academic curriculum that recognizes each student's uniqueness, and challenges students to fully develop the spiritual, intellectual, artistic and physical gifts God has given them.
The curriculum consists of:
Art
Art enables children to recognize beauty as well as to explore, and develop God-given creative talents. Students learn to use different media skillfully, and apply concepts of line, colour, shape, form, space and value. In all grades, art is often interrelated with other areas of the curriculum.
Bible
The purpose of teaching Bible is to (a) impart knowledge of the Bible, (b) open up ways for children to know and love their Lord, (c) move children to deeper faith leading them to live lives of joyful service and obedience. The Bible is integrated into all subjects taught at Halton Hills Christian School.
French
French is taught formally to students in grades one through eight. Our purpose is to learn to speak and understand the French language and to appreciate French culture. French is taught primarily through a conversational method. Vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammatical structures are developed mainly through situation dialogues. We do not offer French Immersion program at this time.
Language Arts
Since God's gift of language is intended for communication, enjoyment, and praise, we affirm that students need skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and thus develop their gifts to God's honour.
A natural language environment will involve a great deal of student interaction. Children should read together, discuss, solve problems, talk about experiences, listen to others, question, and see and read their own words in print.
Spelling
As grade one students learn their phonics, they also use those skills for spelling. Grades two to eight have lessons, using spellers or class appropriate lists reflecting frequently misspelled words.
Mathematics
In a Christian school, students are encouraged to see, in the ever-increasing mass of mathematical knowledge, evidence of the greatness, majesty and faithfulness of their Maker. In His wisdom, God has laid down unchanging mathematical principles or laws which govern His creation.
Socials and Sciences
A Christian curriculum in social studies should begin with the basic understanding that all of history is people's obedient or disobedient response to God's mandate: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” Genesis 1: 28
A key concept in the teaching of science in a Christian school is the concept of creation. In the beginning, God created all things and he still upholds his universe. God not only created the world, but he also established the laws according to which it functions.
Every created thing must be taught in unity so that students see the diversity of creation and the interrelationships of its various parts. A science curriculum should help students understand how science, technology and society influence one another. When seen in the light of the Word, the study of science reveals the majesty, wisdom and power of God.
Music
Since we have been created with one of the finest musical instruments, our voices, singing and music are important parts of our curriculum. Halton Hills Christian School also encourages the development of music through the use of musical instruments from recorder, to hand chimes, and various band instruments. Students from grade 1-3 is part of Primary Choir and students from grade 4-6 is part of Junior Choir. Recorders and chimes are introduced in Gr. 4 - 6 while Gr. 7 and 8 will learn band instruments.
Physical Education
The emphasis in physical education is on the use of physical activity as a development medium in which the primary goal is not the activity itself, but rather the achievement of personal potentials through the activity. Physical education is education of and through the physical. In the primary and junior grades the emphasis lies on the development of motor co-ordination, development of muscle tone, and creative movement, as well as some sports skills. The intermediate grades continue to develop these skills and focus on team sports skills such as are needed for softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball and others.
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