Caedmon School provides a wide variety of learning opportunities


Caedmon provides a wide variety of learning opportunities to challenge our children in developmentally appropriate ways. Deliberately small class sizes allow for individualized instruction, in keeping with Montessori’s primary maxim to teach the child, not the material. In a supportive and nurturing environment, our children experience success, assume responsibility, and feel comfortable taking risks. We build self-esteem by teaching independence and by facilitating individual learning styles.
Mixed Age Classrooms Mixed age groups are an intrinsic feature of the Caedmon philosophy. Interspersed with a few single-age, transitional grades (as outlined below), they provide children with a unique learning opportunity, as well as a positive social experience. In mixed age classrooms, older children act as the more competent mentors, while younger children are guided and challenged by these positive role models. By alternately experiencing themselves in both roles, the children are encouraged to learn from each other, take responsibility for each other, and respect each other’s gifts. During those crucial years when the children are passing from home to school, from pre-school to elementary, and from elementary to middle school, they are indulged with a more focused, single-age classroom. An On-going Program The curriculum is designed to be a series of progressions, each level being a preparation for the next. Our Elementary Program is dedicated to high academic standards and to continuing the focus on social development begun in the earlier years. As you investigate Caedmon, it should be considered as an on-going program, one that provides the continuity so important to a child’s academic success. We strongly recommend that you tour other on-going schools as a basis of comparison. Acceptance of an opening at Caedmon implies an intention to make a commitment to the entire academic program.