私立中学
欢迎来到 宾夕法尼亚州詹金镇的阿宾顿朋友中学! Our 学习ing environment is filled with joy, exploration, and intention. We view 中学 not only as the transition from Lower to 上学校 but as a unique and important destination. 中学时期, 培养学生从具体到抽象的思考者, experience social growth through their relationships with peers and adults in the community, and 学习 how to use success and failure alike to become stronger and to better understand themselves.
“我第一次去的时候, I noticed how students were able to stand and speak about their work and ideas in a totally confident way. 我很惊讶.”
As students move through 中学 at Abington Friends they assume 更多的 responsibility, 学会冒险, 应对学术挑战, engage with the world and are guided toward 更多的 independence in 学习ing. Immersed in a variety of 学习ing environments from classroom to stage to athletic fields to recess play, our students seize the rich opportunities every day presents during this exciting time of growing intellects and identities.
我们专注于贵格会社区的核心信仰, 完整性, 管理, 平等, 服务与和平，无论是在课堂上还是在课堂外. 庆祝每个学生身上的“光”, 我们努力支持他们发现自己真正的才能, 相互合作，寻求新的挑战.
Our goal is for students to grow into mindful 学习ers and peers who use reflection to deepen their understanding of their ideas about the world and their place in it. Our students leave 中学 equipped with the academic skills they will need for their 上学校 journey, but also with the ability to bring about change within and outside of the APP凤凰彩票平台 community.
The best way to 学习 about our 中学 program is to come for a visit and tour. 我们期待着欢迎你来到校园.
热烈,
马克•史密斯
中学主任
五年级
We consider the whole 5th grade year as a steady transition to 中学 and increased independence. 这包括日常自由，比如学生有自己的储物柜, as well as access to broader programs such as our performing arts and athletics programs.
Our focus for our younger 中学 students is to help them 学习 to organize themselves physically, 发展和深化他们的批判性思维和写作技巧, and to set developmentally appropriate expectations of social and academic growth as they begin their shift from being 更多的 concrete thinkers as beginning 5th graders to thinking 更多的 abstractly as the year continues, 同时创造一个关心和支持的环境.
As we get to know students, we push them according to their strengths and vulnerabilities. Individual teachers use a variety of techniques as well as programmatic structures provided through curricula like Math In Focus to challenge and support each student as needed. 因为有很多新的期望, 我们全年定期对五年级学生进行评估, but we do not report their growth through cumulative grades on trimester reports until 6th grade.
六年级
我们中学课程的一个独特之处 APP凤凰彩票平台 is the significant overlap between the 5th and 6th-grade teaching teams. We do this intentionally to support the confidence and growth of returning students and to give students who are new in sixth-grade access to the team of teachers focused on helping younger students transition to 中学.
六年级时, students continue their growth as independent 学习ers and build their analytical reading, 写作, 沟通技巧. As is developmentally appropriate, this is also the first year that we offer separate math courses. For some students another year to fully strengthen the arithmetic skills needed for all other math courses is beneficial. Other students who have shown deep mastery of those skills move into a course designed to prepare them to study Algebra I in 7th grade. 整个中学的其他数学课程也是如此, 所有课程均达到或超过年级水平.
7年级
Seventh grade is an entry point for many students in the 中学. For this reason, we spend the beginning of the year reviewing and strengthening skills. 除了写作和分析，他们还会在其他课上做, some students will take opportunities to explore Spanish at one of two levels–one aimed at students who are beginning or just starting to master basics, and another meant for students with 更多的 experience and comfort with the basics. 类似的, 提供多种数学课程, each aimed at best strengthening students’ skills and confidence based on the progress they demonstrated in their previous math courses, 以及其他的评估点.
七年级的时候, students become 更多的 independent in their own understanding of their strengths and the areas where they need support, and they 学习 to advocate for themselves and seek out resources in the community. 随着七年级学生变得更愿意冒险, our job in 中学 is to encourage their burgeoning interests and enthusiasms while guiding them to make good choices and decisions and to 学习 from their mistakes.
8年级
作为中学最年长的学生, 八年级学生承担起领导的角色, modeling expectations of student and community culture for their younger peers. Though they enter 8th grade at different levels of independent 学习ing, 我们的预期是到今年年底, 所有八年级学生都将在阅读中表现出独立性, 写作, 分析, 解决问题和自我辩护, 为他们在高中的成功做好准备.
Eighth graders also show their leadership through the 5th-8th grade partnership, in which they build relationships with our youngest 中学 students and help them navigate the transition to 中学 and become part of the community.
通过八年级自主学习, students identify a new interest and spend several months 学习ing about and mastering a skill related to that interest with the help of a mentor. 学生 present their individual projects in a student-led presentation to their families and the 中学 community in the spring.
