El Roble Intermediate School Competitors

SkyView Academy offers a research-based, content-rich liberal arts program with a commitment to foreign language studies and community service. Staff, parents, and students are actively involved in a culture of expectation and support where individuals are respected, valued, and known by the content of their character.

The Greenwood School community of families, faculty, and staff share a deep commitment to creating a healthy foundation for every student’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and spiritual growth. The Greenwood experience empowers students by cultivating their imagination, love of nature, and spirit of inquiry. Our graduates distinguish themselves in and beyond high school as independent, creative thinkers, who act with integrity, perform with distinction and make a positive contribution to our world. Greenwood School prepares students for educational accomplishment and lifelong fulfillment by: Providing a broad-based, integrated curriculum including math, sciences, humanities, foreign language, and the arts Offering experiential learning opportunities that support and enhance the academic program, engage children with nature, and build social skills Cultivating students’ initiative, collaboration, self-confidence, and ethical behavior Assuring a safe, nurturing environment Fostering a community of parents, teachers, staff, students and alumni who enrich one another’s lives

We are often asked, Why do you teach Latin? - its a dead language! Here is why: Latin is an inflective language. This means the root of the word stays the same but the endings change as to state who is carrying out the action. The different endings specify the different grammatical uses. Thus, using Latin trains the mind to logically think through and then deduce answers. The alphabet that we learn and teach to our students is the Latin alphabet. Half of our English words are derived from Latin. We choose to teach our Riverbend Academy students Latin because it helps them master the spelling and meaning of most of our English words. In addition, Gregg Strawbridge, Classical and Christian Education, writes, it has been estimated that for every year one studies Latin, 500 to 1000 new English words are gained. And it goes without saying that choice words and colorful speech give students an advantage in the workplace, as well as the classroom. It has been proven to increase a students standardized testing scores. To quote Strawbridge, as a matter of educational statistics, students who have taken Latin score higher than students of other foreign languages on standardized tests. According to Richard A. LaFleur, Franklin Professor and Head of Classics, University of Georgia, The mean Verbal SAT score for students in 1999 was 505; the mean SAT verbal score for students who took the SAT II Latin test was 662, 157 points higher (College-Bound Seniors booklet published by the College Board). The modern romance languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish will be much easier to learn because they are directly derived from Latin. Lastly, knowledge of Latin enables students to connect directly to much of the theology, history and literary heritage of our western civilization broadly and of our Christian roots narrowly.