| Middle School Schedule |
School Begins (Classrooms) |
School Ends (Grades 6-8) |
Afternoon Extended Care |
Student Profiles:
Middle School Student Life
Developmentally, middle school students are beginning to think in abstract terms. As they enter sixth grade, many students are challenged to manage their daily and long-term assignments. Developing time management strategies is one of the primary goals of the sixth grade year.
Classes include history, English, science, math, art, music, physical education, health education, drama, and Spanish. Middle school students hone skills that prepare them for the college preparatory high schools they will attend. Students complete complex projects that require the integration of writing, mathematics, research, analysis, technology, and project management skills. The faculty works with each child to help them balance academic rigor and emotional well-being.
During regularly scheduled study halls, students meet with faculty advisors. Advisors give regular attention to checking student planners, monitoring academic priorities, and supporting student organization, time management and academic projects.
Outdoor education focuses on environmental studies, team building, and community service. In the eighth grade, students also travel to Washington, D.C. to visit monuments, museums, and memorials. This trip is integrated with a yearlong study of American History.
Redwood Day School staff supports students in these exciting adolescent years of incredible growth and change. Middle School students are assigned to advisory groups of 9-12 students from the same grade level, with one faculty member. These groups meet twice a week to explore personal, school, community and world issues. This forum allows students, in an emotionally safe environment, to work through issues of concern.
RDS students are well prepared for and accepted into excellent independent high schools throughout the Bay Area. Our graduates have mastered core academics, developed interdisciplinary learning and project development skills, have good study habits, and understand how they learn most effectively so they can thrive confidently in high school.
