Academics
The goal of the curriculum at Gill St. Bernard's School, beginning with the Early Childhood program and culminating in the Twelfth Grade, is to prepare young people for a lifetime of deep, enriching learning experiences while in college and during their later lives as citizens in an ever changing world.
GSB’s curriculum combines traditional and innovative elements. Students experience learning opportunities in the arts and humanities, mathematics, science, and technology. However, the key elements of a Gill St. Bernard's School education enable students to draw connections across the disciplines — by seeing that a great work of literature may provide access to understanding the history of the period in which it was written; or by understanding the connections between human cultures across different time periods and in different places during the same period of time. In this way, students begin to see themselves as meaningful participants in their world.
Finally, by linking a study of the physical and natural sciences with the social sciences, Gill St. Bernard’s students explore ideas that arouse the excitement of experiencing the new and unknown, developing a sense of wonder about the world.
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part
Of the day,
Or for many years, stretching cycles of years.
--Walt Whitman
