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
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
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
“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.”
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.
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.
On October 30, Clapham celebrated our Twentieth Anniversary Gala with an evening dedicated to alumni and families who have been part of our community over
https://youtu.be/BR1qN7YE14E?si=vfXSoUkLCVcUBu7C This year, we’re celebrating twenty years of God’s faithfulness to our school. As we look to the next twenty, we are steadfastly committed to
Walk into a Clapham classroom and you won’t see Smartboards or Chromebooks. Instead of clicks you’ll hear pencils scratching and pages turning; instead of tablets