Integration between subjects, presented within a Christian worldview, ties the student’s world together. Math, Science, Literature, Bible and History are interwoven in a way that relates all subjects to a whole. As students integrate subjects, scriptural truth is integrated as well.
For centuries, the greatest leaders and thinkers have been classically educated. As Susan Wise Bauer writes in The Well Trained Mind, “Classical education equips students to think clearly, to write and argue persuasively, and to understand where philosophies and ideas come from. I am convinced that men and women who are able to do this will always lead those who can’t.”
Based on a child’s development, the classical model recognizes three levels of growth and development in a child’s thinking and learning: Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric. The three stages comprise what is known as the Trivium and can be compared to the Biblical terms knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.
At Horizon Prep we are confident that the Classical education model develops students that are well-rounded, well-spoken, and well-equipped to become lifelong learners. In the School of Grammar students are taught the building blocks, facts, and vocabulary from across a wide range of subjects. In the School of Logic that information is built upon and students are taught how those pieces are woven together and logically used to form an argument and point of view. And in the School of Rhetoric students are both taught how and then given the opportunities to present and defend what they have learned.
Horizon Prep is committed to Christ in the classroom at every grade and in every subject. Students are taught to look at Math, English, Science, History, and even Physical Education with a Christ-centered worldview. A perspective that both honors and recognizes God at work is not only found in the Bible classes offered, or the weekly chapels, but as a backbone for all of the building blocks of education.
The Faculty & Staff at Horizon Prep work every day to point students to God both through their lesson plans and through their relationships with students and families. Teachers diligently integrate the classical based model of grammar, logic, and rhetoric with the biblical principles of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Students are taught biblical truth (knowledge), what its importance and significance is in today’s world (understanding), and how to apply God’s Word to their individual lives and the situations they face (wisdom).
