We ensure a bright future for each and every child, as every child seeks opportunities to prove himself as unique. We help them to groom their talents along with motivate everyone to practice the skills.
We ensure a bright future for each and every child, as every child seeks opportunities to prove himself as unique. We help them to groom their talents along with motivate everyone to practice the skills.
Academic excellence: To provide engaging and challenging academic programming for each student; to provide the highest quality teaching to inspire the intellectual and creative growth of each student; to set learning goals that reflect appropriate challenges for each student; to ensure that students are successful and confident.
Performance view of understanding: To engage students in strategies that define “understanding” as the ability to apply knowledge in a novel situation or to teach knowledge to someone else; to stimulate students to be responsive and responsible for their own learning and to establish a love of learning; to encourage initiative and independence as well as metacognition and reflection about their own process of learning.
Learning principles: To embed research-based practices for an optimum learning environment in the program. These practices are: to connect new knowledge to the core ideas of a discipline; to construct new understanding by activating prior knowledge and experiences; to reflect and apply metacognitive skills; to collaborate, discuss and share their learning; to be motivated; to make a connection with their teacher and feel supported in the learning environment; to have ownership of their learning; to have meaningful opportunities to practice their learning; to receive timely and goal-directed feedback; and to have opportunities to move, play and explore to connect mind and body.
Well-rounded curriculum: To offer a wide range of subjects through the entire 14-year sequence of the program; to ensure both vertical and horizontal alignment of the curriculum as well as breadth and depth in each discipline to emphasize holistic programming; to offer opportunity, when possible, for student “voice and choice” to extend learning beyond the stated objectives of a subject by encouraging individual interests, including independent study; to encourage creativity through a panoply of offerings; to use current events to expand student understanding of established learning outcomes.
Global and intercultural competency: To celebrate and engage with the cultural diversity in and beyond the school community; to learn to value the diversity of race, gender, nationality, religion, ability, socioeconomic status (among other similarities and differences) at the School and encourage intercultural dialogue; understand protected characteristics and their importance; 10 to deepen empathy and kindness in each student; to understand the importance of equity and inclusion to enlarge a student’s concern for, and responsibility to, the wider community; to prepare students for their futures and to make the world a better place.
Effective assessment: To respond in a timely fashion to student work; to use a variety of assessment strategies to reflect different learning styles; to consider which assessment strategies best reflect the learning outcomes desired; to guide students to deeper understanding of disciplinary knowledge and skills; to encourage reflection and depth of understanding.
Experiential learning: From the school’s inception, the use of Umaria and surroundings as a “laboratory” to enhance the curriculum through field trips beginning as early as PreK and extending through Grade 10; to plan overnight trips designed to dovetail with curricular emphasis, also to build resilience and self-confidence for all students, starting in Grade 4; for middle and high school students, trips to a variety of regional field study sites, including AI, to broaden and deepen curricular topics; Daylong school trips, Alternatives and adventure Tour; experiential trips for robotics, newspaper conferences, honors trips for out reach programs, Model conferences, peer advisers seminars, debate competitions, among other experiences for middle and high school students.
FEE STRUCTURE FOR SESSION 2025-26