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With sixth grade comes some big changes. Our students
get lockers (which they love), they change classes each
period, they run for student council, and they join clubs like
yearbook, eco-committee and music. By seventh grade the
focus is on becoming a Bar and Bat Mitzvah and even greater
leadership at school. And in eighth grade, our graduating
class is running the student body and creating their legacy
project as a gift to RHA.
During their final years at RHA, our students prepare to enter high school as deep
thinkers, confident leaders, and broad-minded citizens. That's because our Middle
School educational experience is student-driven, teacher-facilitated and peer-
supported. It includes an arts block that inspires creativity and problem solving. It
offers a choice of Bible studies in either English or Hebrew and a program of more
intensive conversational Hebrew. Its advanced math program has been designed by
a chair in math studies. A revamped Judaic studies program makes Jewish heritage
relevant to students living in a modern and diverse world. And it is intensly focused
on STEM learning.
The Middle School years bring to fruition the skills and qualities we instilled in
our students from Nursery
onwards: critical thinking,
collaboration, creativity, global
citizenship, communication
and character. As we watch
our students take the reins and
lead our school, we can't help
but be amazed by the young
adults they've become.
We never stop being proud.
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