ENGAGED, ENRICHED, INSPIRED

AWS’s middle school classes strengthen students’ individuality and character by fully engaging them intellectually, emotionally, artistically, and physically.

• Our interdisciplinary curriculum explores the essential questions in each subject. This helps students develop the intellectual and moral foundation for a productive and meaningful life.
• Challenging assignments and projects require students to develop critical thinking skills, integrate what they have learned, and express themselves skillfully and creatively.
• Classes in music, drama, arts, and crafts teach students to express themselves with competence and confidence and to become practical, self-reliant individuals.

*Our grade classes meet from 8:30-3:30 with early dismissal on Thursdays at 2:30*

A new capacity for exact observation is cultivated through the physics lessons, in which students move from the mystery of phenomena to its exact measurement. 

The physical changes of this age lead naturally to a study of human physiology, which is taught from the hygienic perspective of responsibility for the integrity and health of our bodies. Earth science supports the ever-expanding geographic studies of Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the planet as a whole.

Business arithmetic, algebra and geometry become formal disciplines and are studied over the course of all middle school grades. The language arts curriculum expands into the interweaving branches of literature, grammar and composition and along with mathematics, occupies both main lesson and ongoing skills classes.

In addition to the broad arts-infused academic curriculum, Asheville Waldorf School offers a variety of specialty classes taught by teachers whose focus in on a particular subject.  Read more about our Subject curriculum here. 

CURRICULUM OVERVIEW