Our Curriculum

Catholic Classical Liberal Arts Education is based on the education model of medieval Christendom. It brings together three subjects of the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the four subjects that make up quadrivium (astronomy, mathematics, geometry and music.)

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Trivium

Grammar

This is the beginning subject that prioritizes memorization and understanding how to speak well and form proper sentences. There is a focus on learning Latin as the foundation for all romantic languages. More than 60% of all English words have Greek or Latin roots.

Logic

Once students are positioned to confidently speak and listen, they can learn how to reason and think. Logic allows young minds to intelligently pursue and discover truth, think about ideas and think about God and His created world. Logic also allows young minds to discover who they are, in an ordered and well reasoned way.

Rhetoric

Finally, students enter the stage where they take their ability to speak, write, reason and intellect and use those tools to persuade, enter into discourse and argue in the true sense of the word. There is no appeal to emotion or feelings. Rhetoric allows those who have this skill to bring others to truth through rational discussion.

Quadrivium

Arithmetic

Allows our students to use their skills to understand and study numbers in general.

Geometry

Allows our students to use their skills to understand and study how numbers relate in space.

Astronomy

Allows our students to use their skills to understand and study how numbers relate in space and time and explain the motions of the universe.

Music and Art

Allows our students to use their skills to understand and grow in relation to God through the beauty of music and art.