Grammar School

“The word ‘education’ comes from the Latin ‘educere’ = e- (out of) + -ducere (to draw). Education is not just about putting information in. We have forgotten that it, in fact, begins in the child’s heart.”

- Vince Gowmon

Grammar School

The Seven Oaks Grammar School includes Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. The education is designed to give students a firm foundation for all subsequent learning, to help students begin building successful habits, and to feed a sense of wonder and joy. It feeds the mind and imagination through a time-tested, content-rich, cutting-edge curriculum.

  • Foundations: Students benefit from traditional techniques. They learn phonics and their math facts. They learn penmanship and cursive. They learn how to diagram a sentence and how to solve a math problem in their head.  

  • Balance: The day alternates between academics, free play out-of-doors, and the arts.

  • Variety: Students receive steady instruction not only in reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also science, history, geography, literature, poetry, physical education, art, and music.

  • Character: Students are not only challenged to learn facts, but are encouraged to think about good habits and decent character—qualities such as integrity, perseverance, respect, courage, self-government, and citizenship.  

  • Nurture: Students are cared for by a homeroom teacher who teaches them all of the core subjects and communicates regularly with parents to help shepherd the students through these formative years.

  • Personalization: Care is taken to know each student as an individual and to support and stretch students, whatever their background or ability.

By the time you leave the grammar school:

  • You have started learning French and Latin.

  • You’ve read your first work of Shakespeare.

  • You are skilled in diagramming sentences and you’re becoming increasingly comfortable with all the basics of composition.

  • You’ve studied every major world civilization up through the early modern period (including what we know of each civilization’s art and music), and U.S. History through the closing of the frontier.

  • You will have read and discussed Peter Pan, Charlotte’s Web, Farmer Boy, Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur, Treasure Island, Secret Garden, Sherlock Holmes, and Little Women, just to name a few.

Maybe you’ve won a Declamation Contest or a Spelling Bee; or perhaps you’ve performed with the Musical Theatre; or perhaps you’re eager to join the Cross Country or Track teams after participating in Running Club; or maybe you’ve made friends outside of your immediate grade through Chess Club.