The grammar school years are a time of wonder, memory, joyful practice, and foundational formation. Students are introduced to the riches of the classical Christian tradition and Scripture through habits of attention, obedience, delight, and careful work. Grammar school students learn through repetition, story, song, beauty, hands-on practice, and well-ordered classroom life. They build the foundational knowledge needed for later study but are not rushed toward premature specialization; rather, students are given a generous foundation for future wisdom, skill, and understanding.

The grammar school classroom is shaped by both warmth and discipline. Teachers nurture an atmosphere that promotes joyful discovery and building of good habits. The grammar school experience is also active and embodied. We want to help students grow in strength, coordination, dexterity, and practical service through play and the arts.

We celebrate and treasure children and are thrilled to welcome your students!

But more than that, we would desire to bring children into the garden of created being, and thought, and expression. Caldecott reminds us that for the medieval schoolmen, as for Plato, education was essentially musical, an education in the cosmos or lovely order that surrounds us and bears us up. Thus when we teach our youngest children by means of rhymes and songs, we do so not merely because rhymes and songs are actually effective mnemonic devices. We do so because we wish to form their souls by memory: we wish to bring them up as rememberers, as persons, born, as Caldecott points out, in certain localities, among certain people, who bear a certain history, and who claim our love and loyalty.
— Anthony Esolen