Froebel’s Gifts: Taking Play Seriously in Early Childhood Education
At Clapham, our Explorers I and II classes have an intentional approach towards play. It all starts with the Charlotte Mason maxim, “Children are born persons.” A Christian herself, Mason’s maxim was ultimately rooted in Genesis 1:27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he […]
Upper School Masquerade Ball
In which they trip the light fantastic
Upper School Missions Trip 2026
Among the many aspects of Clapham’s Portrait of a Graduate are these two: Believe and cherish the Gospel, enjoying a growing faith in Jesus Christ and Love and serve Christ the King, proclaiming the gospel and serving one’s neighbor wherever God calls The contours of the gospel story shape the student experience at Clapham, from the rhythm of […]
A Battle of the Wills: Nietzsche vs. Mason
“I want to believe that resisting my desires makes me strong, not just because I was taught that, but because it was how God designed me.”
What’s so Great About Great Books?
We must have the humility to acknowledge that our instincts are insufficient to recognize what great art looks like, much less to be capable of producing great art. We have to be trained.
What Does Shakespeare Require of You?
At Clapham School, every single middle school student is guaranteed to have a significant experience with Shakespeare through spending each spring semester studying and performing a Shakespeare play. As a classical school, Shakespeare is naturally part of our curriculum, but why? How does the Great Books canon serve our students, and in what way do they support and engage with a biblical worldview (stay tuned for even more on this in a future episode)? How can parents serve their students as they approach the formidable task of memorizing and performing lines in front of a live audience? Leah Becker and Hannah Bramsen discuss all this and more in this episode of the Clapham School Podcast.
Fostering a Faculty of Friends
At Clapham, teaching is a vocation and a craft. Since our teachers are the key to what makes Clapham so unique, our administrative team is highly selective in the people they hire to fill the crucial faculty roles in our school. So, what goes into that process? This episode of the Clapham Podcast features Head of School Mr. Atchison and Academic Dean Dr. Egan discussing the characteristics, content, and competencies that comprise the unique role of a Clapham faculty member, as well as the culture and atmosphere that exists among and for these individuals.
Life’s Work vs. Homework: What’s the Difference?
“What we’re doing is actually cultivating a love for words, we’re cultivating a curiosity, we’re cultivating a desire to not just get through the reading as fast as possible but to see the small things.”
A Sustained Engagement With a Big Question
Megan Hinchee presented on the Christian imperative to preserve native species in spring 2025. In this episode of the Clapham podcast, rhetoric faculty Kelsey Peterson continues to discuss the senior thesis component of rhetoric training at Clapham. Kelsey Peterson | Rhetoric at Clapham (Senior Thesis) Pt 2 One of the distinguishing factors of classical education […]