Grade Level | 9:00-10:30 | 10:30-12:00 | 12:00-1:15 | 1:15-2:30 | 2:30-4:00 | 4:00-5:00 |
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Primary | Early Reading / Literature (Murray) Gr. K-2 | Art (Schulte) Gr. K-2 | Mass + Lunch | Little Hildegard's (Francisco) Gr. K-2 | Music (Thompson) Gr. K-2 | Athletics (Almeida) Gr. 2-6 |
CGS L1/L2 | CGS L1/L2 | |||||
Elementary | Drama (Sentmanat) Gr. 3-5 | US History (Kaercher) Gr. 3-6 | Mass + Lunch | Earth Science & Astronomy (Kaercher) Gr. 3-6 | Little Hildegard's (Francisco) Gr. 3-6 | Athletics (Almeida) Gr. 2-6 |
CGS L2/L3 | CGS L2/L3 | Music (Thompson) Gr. 3-4 | Art (Schulte) Gr. 3-4 | |||
Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | |||
Middle | Drama (Sentmanat) Gr. 3-5 | US History (Kaercher) Gr. 3-6 | Mass + Lunch | Earth Science & Astronomy (Kaercher) Gr. 3-6 | Little Hildegard's (Francisco) Gr. 3-6 | Athletics (Almeida) Gr. 2-6 |
Math Tutorial (Lambert) Gr. 6-12 | Theater (Hale) Gr. 6-8 | Latin (Lambert) Gr. 5-8 | Sacred Music (Cunningham) Gr. 5-6 | |||
Ancient Greece History (Diaz) Gr. 6-8 | Art Gr. 5-6 | |||||
CGS L3 | CGS L3 | |||||
Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | |||
Jr. High | Math Tutorial (Lambert) Gr. 6-12 | Ancient Greek HIstory (Diaz) Gr. 6-8 | Mass + Lunch | Sacred Music (Cunningham) Gr. 7-8 | Catholic Culture I (Fr.) | Athletics (Jones) Gr. 7-12 |
Art (Schulte) Gr. 7-12 | Theater (Hale) Gr. 6-8 | Latin (Lambert) Gr. 5-8 | ||||
Hildegard Homesteaders (Francisco) Gr. 7-12 | ||||||
Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | |||
High School | Chemistry (Lambert) Gr. 9-12 | Wood Shop (Leonard) Gr. 9-12 | Mass + Lunch | Theater II (Sentmanat) | Catholic Culture II (Fr.) | Athletics (Jones) Gr. 7-12 |
Art (Schulte) Gr. 7-12 | Intro to Philosophy (Mr. Jones) Gr. 9-12 | Logic (Diaz) Gr. 9-12 | ||||
Music & Culture (Sentmantat) Gr. 9-12 | Hildegard Homesteaders (Francisco) Gr. 7-12 | |||||
Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 | Study Hall Gr. 3-12 |
Early Reading and Morning Work (Ages 5-7, Murray & Stoddard)
Early reading will be focused on helping children ages 5-7 grow in their emerging reading and writing skills. Through group work and individual station work, students will gain experience with upper and lowercase letter recognition, phonetic letter mastery, and blends while memorizing sight words. Students will spend time writing developmentally appropriate letters, numbers, or words including their first and last name. Additional activities that will support students' mastery of early reading and writing will be included in the class. Some of these activities will be cutting work, counting patterns, poetry and prayer memorization, pattern recognition, nature study, playdough or clay activities, developmentally appropriate games, songs, and picture books. The class will model a gentle kindergarten, compressed into a shorter weekly course, focusing on early literacy skills. This class would be appropriate for early readers; however, it is not appropriate for students reading above an early reader book.
Course Material Fee: $5-$10
Primary Art (K-2, Julie Schulte)
Students of the primary art course will gain exploratory exposure to the tenets of art education through a traditional Catholic perspective using the liturgical calendar and Catholic art history as a backbone as Primary students begin to understand that art is a way to communicate. Students consciously create symbols and their pictures feature bold, direct, and flat images. There is little detail shown to realistic, spatial concepts. This age is eager to share their art with others. Students will work 3-4 weeks on the following units:
Course Materials Fee: $94, or 2 payments of $47 at start of each semester
Little Hildegard's A (K-2, Francisco)
This class will focus on gardening and the history of gardening intertwined with the Catholic perspective. With that in mind, students will also further their study through homesteading principles for self-sufficiency. Students will be immersed in what it is like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Students will learn about food preservation, crop rotation, animal husbandry, and other things of the homesteading nature based on the classic homesteading book by John Seymour. Some of this will be conceptual, and some of it will be hands-on, as animal husbandry will not take place on campus. But students can still learn about it. Students will participate in creating their own homesteading project for the end of the year.
Course Material Fee: $50 or 2 payments of $25 at the start of each semester
Music (K-2, Thompson)
The Kodály approach to teaching music asserts that musical concepts, creativity, and collaboration are best learned by experience. This class relies strongly on the use of voice - the universal instrument. Students will learn to sing in tune and encounter the basics of rhythm and timing with a variety of physical movements. Each concept will be expressed in a way that encourages the child to learn through different modes - kinesthetic, auditory, and visual. According to the method, music teachers should emphasize musical material that is connected to their students' culture and heritage before moving on to composed music of all genres. The class will use familiar nursery rhymes and songs from the English tradition, as well as traditional American folk songs. Students will also begin music literacy with relative Solfa, rhythm names, and hand signs. For these young children, this is just initial exposure and will always be part of a group experience.
Athletics (2nd-5th grade, Almeida)
Elementary athletics is a PE-style class for kids grades 2-5. Classes will feature an active warm-up, a fitness-focused workout, and large group games. It is a high-energy hour in which kids will learn coordination, cooperation, listening, and how to challenge themselves and each other in a healthy and fun environment.
Shakespeare Elementary Drama (3rd-5th grade)
Students will learn and practice rhythm and poetic form using Shakespeare lines, along with some of T.S. Elliot’s Cat Poems and/or the like. Students will memorize some famous lines from Shakespeare plays and sonnets, as well as prepare a production for the Shakespeare Festival. As students prepare for an age appropriate Shakespeare production; they will build enthusiasm, confidence, and vigor for expression, as they take a part of a whole with others to achieve the same goal; a good performance for the entertainment and edification of an audience. All students, by virtue of enrolling in this or any other class at Campion Hall, give their agreement to live by and uphold the student code of conduct. Please consult the code of conduct as needed. Academic Integrity: Parents are responsible in encouraging their children to be polite and attentive. Some children need to be reminded to wait their turn, while others need to be prompted to speak out Course Schedule Obligatory: 2024 -2025 school year Rehearsal week will take place the following dates: Saturday May 24th Tuesday May 27th, Wednesday May 28th Shakespeare Festival : May 31st
United States History (3rd-6th grade, Kaercher)
Students will explore the history of our nation from the time of the Founding Fathers to the 20th century. Students will develop skills such as reading and examining primary source documents, understanding causes and effects of major historical events, and more. The study of history presents a unique opportunity to not only learn and observe the past, but to better understand our present. In an age when the historical narrative is often at the mercy of agenda, a truthful examination of the past takes on even more importance. We will use The Story of Civilization: Volume IV as our main framework but will also utilize other resources.
Course Materials Fee: Student workbook: Estimated $20
Earth and Space Science (3rd -6th grade, Kaercher)
This class will focus on the scientific studies of earth and space. It will include studies of the earth’s physical surface and features, its atmosphere, weather and ecosystems, and studies of the planets and space. We will strive to not only observe the world around us, but to better understand the hows and whys of our world. Students will develop critical thinking skills as they connect concepts, draw conclusions from experiments, and practice using the scientific method. We will follow Elemental Science’s Earth Science & Astronomy for the Grammar Stage, as one year of a 3-year grammar stage cycle.
Course Material Fee: Student workbook: Estimated $20-$25
Music (3rd-4th grade, Thompson)
The Kodály approach to teaching music asserts that musical concepts, creativity, and collaboration are best learned by experience. This class relies strongly on the use of voice - the universal instrument. Students will learn to sing in tune and encounter the basics of rhythm and timing with a variety of physical movements. Each concept will be expressed in a way that encourages the child to learn through different modes; kinesthetic, auditory and visual. According to the method, music teachers should emphasize musical material that is connected to their students' culture and heritage before moving on to composed music of all genres. We will be using familiar nursery rhymes and songs from the English tradition, as well as traditional American folk songs.
Students will also begin music literacy with relative Solfa, rhythm names and hand signs. We will be using a textbook called Musicianship Magic by Judith Clingan to begin understanding how to read music and more theory. Each class will be broken into sections - and although we will always begin with a Musical flow, we may not go through each listed section every class.
Little Hildegard's B (3rd-6th grade, Francisco)
This class will focus on gardening and the history of gardening intertwined with the Catholic perspective. With that in mind, students will also further their study through homesteading principles for self sufficiency. Students will be immersed in what it is like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Students will learn about food preservation, crop rotation, animal husbandry, and other things of the homesteading nature based on the classic homesteading book by John Seymour. Some of this will be conceptual, and some of it will be hands-on, as animal husbandry will not take place on campus. But students can still learn about it. Students will participate in creating their own homesteading project for the end of the year.
Course Material Fee: $50 or 2 payments of $25 at the start of each semester
Art (3rd - 4th grade, Schulte)
Students will gain an enhanced exposure to the tenets of art education through a Traditional Catholic perspective using the liturgical calendar and Catholic Art History as a backbone.
Students will work 3-4 weeks on the following units:
Course Materials Fee: $94, or 2 payments of $47 at start of each semester
Shakespeare Elementary Drama (3rd-5th grade)
Students will learn and practice rhythm and poetic form using Shakespeare lines, along with some of T.S. Elliot’s Cat Poems and/or the like. Students will memorize some famous lines from Shakespeare plays and sonnets, as well as prepare a production for the Shakespeare Festival. As students prepare for an age appropriate Shakespeare production; they will build enthusiasm, confidence and vigor for expression, as they take a part of a whole with others to achieve the same goal; a good performance for the entertainment and edification of an audience.
All students, by virtue of enrolling in this or any other class at Campion Hall, give their agreement to live by and uphold the student code of conduct. Please consult the code of conduct as needed.
Academic Integrity:
Parents are responsible in encouraging their children to be polite and attentive. Some children need to be reminded to wait their turn, while others need to be prompted to speak out
Course Schedule Obligatory:
2024 -2025 school year Rehearsal week will take place the following dates:
Shakespeare Festival: May 31st
Math Tutorial (Grades: 6th-12th grade, Lambert)
The math tutorial is a class for students to come with their questions and get one-on-one help. Mrs. Lambert majored in Chemical Engineering and was a high school math teacher, and can comfortably tutor all levels of math. In class, students will come prepared with questions from their work at home and the instructor will work with each child individually, at their level, and with an eye to their particular learning styles. Mrs. Lambert would be happy to tutor other disciplines as long as all those seeking tutoring in Math have been accepted to the class first.
Materials Needed: own math curriculum and paper+pencil
Middle School Theater (6th-8th grade, Hale)
In this course students will be introduced to classical playwrights, including Shakespeare. Students will learn enhanced memorization skills using Shakespeare’s soliloquies, sonnets and plays. Students will be taught an understanding of stage direction, the types of drama, (Comedy, Tragedy, Melodrama, Tragicomedy), Creative drama (Role playing, scripted/unscripted performance skills, Improvisation skills), Voice projection (Breathing and speaking from your diaphragm) Diction, Pitch, and Rhythmic speaking utilizing iambic pentameter. In the class, students will implement creative writing, utilizing a drama journal, which helps enable the students to write and speak expressively in order to communicate a range of emotion.
End of year performance May 24, 2025
Shakespeare festival performance, May 31, 2025
Tech week rehearsal beginning May 17 through May 23, 2025
Ancient Greece (6th-8th grade, Diaz)
In this course, students will begin the study of the roots of Christendom and Western Civilization in ancient Greece. Students will learn about Ancient Greek culture, government, philosophy, and religion. From these foundations, students will begin to recognize how the Christian revelation was a “light to lighten gentiles.” We will learn the geography of the time period and compose a timeline to better grasp the narrative of the age.
Course Materials:
First Form Latin (5th-8th grade, Lambert)
Latin 1 is an introductory Latin course for Middle School students. The class will use the First Form Latin series from Memoria Press to cover the basics of Latin grammar and begin to develop a Latin vocabulary. All instruction will be given in class on Thursdays and students will be expected to do workbook assignments at home Monday through Wednesday. There will be quizzes to assess mastery each Thursday as well.
Why learn Latin? Studying Latin provides many benefits. As a well organized language, the declensions, conjugations, and sentence translations will help refine the logical portion of the students’ minds. In addition, the dissection of Latin grammar will help the students better understand English grammar and how words are used, improving their writing and editing skills. Latin vocabulary will also help students understand the meaning of many complicated English words, especially in the sciences. Lastly, and most importantly, Latin is the mother language of the Church. A familiarity with and love of Latin will help them grow closer to the universal Church and the Mass, as well as deepen their appreciation of our history.
Required text(s):
Recommended text(s):
First Form Latin Flashcards
Art (5th - 6th grade, Schulte)
Students will gain an enhanced exposure to the tenets of art education through a Traditional Catholic perspective using the liturgical calendar and Catholic Art History as a backbone.
Students will work 3-4 weeks on the following units:
Course Materials Fee: $94, or 2 payments of $47 at start of each semester
Sacred Choral Music Middle School (5th-6th grade, Cunningham)
This course uses the rich treasury of sacred choral music to teach musical concepts and skills. Fundamentals of singing are covered including vocal technique, breathing, posture, and sight singing. We will focus on repertoire and performance standards, while continuing to practice musical literacy. Gregorian chant is introduced.
This class will often accompany the noon Mass on Thursdays throughout the year. We will also sing with the Presentation Choir for the 9 Lessons and Carols Service on Thursday evening December 19th, and join other area Catholic School choirs for Frassati Catholic High School’s Lessons and Carols program on Saturday afternoon December 7th. The text will be High Praise: A Book of Anthems for Upper-Voice Choirs
Learning Outcomes:
Required Text: High Praise: A Book of Anthems for Upper-Voice Choirs - purchase from Ginny Cunningham for $20.
Important Dates/Times outside of Class:
These performances are not required, but are very strongly encouraged.
Sacred Choral Music Jr. High (7th-8th grade, Cunningham)
This course uses the rich treasury of sacred choral music to teach musical concepts and skills. Fundamentals of singing are covered including vocal technique, breathing, posture, and sight singing. We will focus on repertoire and performance standards, while continuing to practice musical literacy. Gregorian chant is further explored. This class will often accompany the noon Mass on Thursdays throughout the year. We will also sing with the Presentation Choir for the 9 Lessons and Carols Service on Thursday evening December 19th, and join other area Catholic School choirs for Frassati Catholic High School’s Lessons and Carols program on Saturday afternoon December 7th.
Learning Outcomes:
Required Text: High Praise: A Book of Anthems for Upper-Voice Choirs - purchase from Ginny Cunningham for $20.
Important Dates/Times outside of Class:
These performances are not required, but are very strongly encouraged.
Athletics (7th-12th grade, Mrs. Jones)
“Under pressure we don’t rise to the occasion, but rather sink to the level of our training.” -Navy Seals
In this course, the athlete will learn foundational movements through constantly varied, high intensity, interval training (relative to the individual). The focus will be on proper form, functional movements, strength training, cardiovascular endurance, and coordination. Whatever the individual or family goal, this will offer the athlete a head start on building a healthy lifestyle encouraging a love for fitness and understanding the impact of nutrition. This is complementary to any other sport or activity your child is already involved in. It also is great for beginners or any level of experience. The actual WOD or workout of the day, will always have an aspect of unpredictability; they are constantly varied. There is a consistent structure to the class, but what happens within each of the components of the class are what changes. Classes are built on a foundation of age-appropriate segments that allow goals to be accomplished within them.
Hildegard Homesteaders C: 7rd-12th grade, Francisco
This class will focus on gardening and the history of gardening intertwined with the Catholic perspective. With that in mind, students will also further their study through homesteading principles for self sufficiency. Students will be immersed in what it is like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Students will learn about food preservation, crop rotation, animal husbandry, and other things of the homesteading nature based on the classic homesteading book by John Seymour. Some of this will be conceptual, and some of it will be hands-on, as animal husbandry will not take place on campus. But students can still learn about it. Students will participate in creating their own homesteading project for the end of the year.
Course Material Fee: $50 or 2 payments of $25 at the start of each semester
Middle School Theater: 6th-8th, Hale
In this course students will be introduced to classical playwrights, including Shakespeare. Students will learn enhanced memorization skills using Shakespeare’s soliloquies, sonnets and plays. Students will be taught an understanding of stage direction, the types of drama, (Comedy, Tragedy, Melodrama, Tragicomedy), Creative drama (Role playing, scripted/unscripted performance skills, Improvisation skills), Voice projection (Breathing and speaking from your diaphragm) Diction, Pitch, and Rhythmic speaking utilizing iambic pentameter. In the class, students will implement creative writing, utilizing a drama journal, which helps enable the students to write and speak expressively in order to communicate a range of emotion.
End of year performance May 24, 2025
Shakespeare festival performance, May 31, 2025
Tech week rehearsal beginning May 17 through May 23, 2025
Secondary Art: 7th-12th grade, Shulte
Students of the Secondary Art Course will gain an increasingly technical and expressive exposure to the tenets of art education through a Traditional Catholic perspective using the liturgical calendar and Catholic Art History as a backbone. They will be encouraged to work on projects occasionally outside of class time to gain a richer experience.
Students will spend 3-4 weeks on the following units:
Learning Outcomes:
While it’s no question everyone loves music, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a compelling answer as to what it all means, or even what it really is. Nevertheless, its impact is easily felt, and its significance is generally accepted. So, is there any reason to consider it further?
Not too surprisingly, a deeply fascinating answer lies in the very effect music has on the spirit: an undeniable hold which transcends your surroundings and suspends you in time. This effect can be described and explored, revealing great mysteries to the nature of our being. Put another way: the very nature and discovery of harmony as we know it is a direct result of a profound contemplation of what it means to be human, brought to fruition by the Christian ethos, over centuries of development in culture.
This class, titled "Music and Culture", presented at Campion Hall for the Highschool level, is meant to bring the student to a deeper understanding of what we hear, why it works, and how it moves us. It’s an in-depth look at the most beautiful human expressions ever created and its impact on the world. At an accelerated and intensive pace over the course of one school year, students will come away with a new sense of awe and an appetite for the contemplation of beauty.
Watch this short video, serving as a taste of the approach for this class. Hope to see you there.
Secondary Art: 7th-12th grade, Shulte
Students of the Secondary Art Course will gain an increasingly technical and expressive exposure to the tenets of art education through a Traditional Catholic perspective using the liturgical calendar and Catholic Art History as a backbone. They will be encouraged to work on projects occasionally outside of class time to gain a richer experience.
Students will spend 3-4 weeks on the following units:
Learning Outcomes:
Woodshop: 9th-12th grade, Leonard
Course description coming soon
Introduction to Philosophy: 9th-12th grade, Mr. Jones
In his Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason”), St. Pope John Paul II argued that all human beings are, in some real sense, philosophers. The reasons for this are many. All human beings have a comprehensive view of themselves and the world. And they are not merely seeking to collect information, but are fundamentally seeking to know and love the truth. To live in accord with what is true presumes that human beings are not only truth seekers, but that the truth is something that we can discover and grasp.
The first step to embarking on the formation of the person is to have some sense of the nature and purpose of the human person, because a liberal education ultimately aims at the formation of the whole person. Similarly, in order to embrace the life of the mind, students need to be made aware that a life of the mind is possible, and that they have a soul for which they have the right and duty to care. And finally, no authentic education could be possible apart from an awareness of what Gaudium et Spes calls simply, “the transcendence of the person” (§13). This transcendence of the person connects immediately with our desire to know and study the world and the order of things.
It is in this light that we should see the very structure and purpose of the current course. This course is a compressed track format, but will hopefully provide students with a first step into the very practice of philosophy.
In order to assist us in this first stage, students will need to be introduced to a particular account of what it means to live in the modern age. By articulating certain features of living in the modern world, we will be better equipped to see philosophy as a real practice. Following this, we will begin to consider what our thinking and acting in the world is ultimately ordered towards. Students will engage with philosophic essays on work and contemporary political life that lead us deeper into questions concerning the nature of the human person, and the meaning of a good life.
Through reading and comprehending the material in this course, we hope to (1) demonstrate that philosophical thought is an ongoing dialogue among thinkers from various times and historical circumstances, and (2) suggest that some of the concerns that confronted philosophers centuries ago are still relevant to the problems of today. Finally (3) students will come to understand themselves as persons endowed with innate dignity, freedom of choice, and the capacity for rational reflection. Self-knowledge thus serves as the foundation of the philosophical habit of mind and heart that animates their journey through their liberal education.
Shakespeare Secondary Theater (9th-12th grade, Sentmanat)
One of the missions of the Ordinariate is to preserve the Catholic roots of the Anglican tradition. Part of this endeavor can be found in participation in Shakespeare performances. Campion Hall's Theater program seeks to preserve this tradition by performing Shakespeare in the way it was intended to be performed. The pinnacle of Campion Hall Theater culminates with the Shakespeare Festival held at the end of May. The students become actors and are given responsibility as such. Thus, Campion Hall Theater classes begin and end with Shakespeare. Commitment during May Rehearsal Week (sometimes called Tech Week) involves the Friday before to the Friday beginning the Shakespeare Festival and performances. These will involve intensive practices and dress rehearsals. In order to reach the goal of having satisfying and successful performances, this practice and preparation week is required at the outset. Please, contact the teacher for the prospective class schedule concerning this week. Rehearsal Week Dates for the upcoming school year begin May 23 to Friday May30 (Shakespeare Festival Weekend) Homework: No required outside homework other than practicing lines accordingly, the way they are being learned in class. There should not be too much unnecessary memory work being done at home outside of how students are learning them in class.
Class components and objectives: Studying Shakespeare involves quite an expansion of subject matter, not only in grappling with the verse and prose effectively and engaging in Literary study and analysis; but, dappling into English Catholic History and Western Tradition as such. However, ultimately , the study of Shakespeare is done not as students, but as actors, looking to a real audience for their enjoyment. The goal of a play is to have the audience walk away saying to themselves "I want to see that again". After all, the play's the thing as Hamlet does declare; and all the world’s a stage, Jaques (As You Like It) expounds.
NOTE: 2024 -2025 school year Teachweek will take place the following dates—Friday May 23th - Friday May 30th. Shakespeare Festival: May 31st and June 1st
Logic: 9th-12th grade, Diaz
This is an introductory course to formal logic focusing on the classical syllogism. The course will give a basic understanding of recognizing logical statements, translating everyday language into proper logical form, and evaluating the validity of a logical statement. Through this understanding, students will be capable of deriving truths from higher truths.
Course Materials: TBD