Welcome to the Middle School
 

Alicia Brown Middle School Principal

The ECA Middle School is a learning community designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. The Middle School years are ones that are absolutely critical in a child’s moral, social and intellectual development. It is an intensely dynamic period in a child’s life, characterized by tremendous physical and emotional changes, and by the formation lasting attitudes about learning, self, and one’s role in society. In the Middle School, we have carefully designed the educational program around several key beliefs:

 Middle school students are academically very capable and therefore
    should experience intellectual challenge consistently.

 Learning for middle school students is largely a social activity. Natural tendencies
    to want to be together, to ‘belong’, and to be perceived positively by their
    peers should act as catalysts for maximizing learning.

 The goal of middle school is general education. Students should be exposed
    to a broad and deep range of approaches to knowledge and learning

Our middle school design ensures that we:

 Provide a caring and stable environment.

 Apply learning strategies which are both effective and appropriate to
    young adolescents undergoing rapid physical, social, and emotional development.

 Create a variety of opportunities for students to explore their individuality
     within the context of a community.

 Promote international understanding in the specific context of early adolescence.

 Ensure that, by the time students move on to the high school, they have the
    learning attitudes, study skills and essential knowledge required to succeed
    in the high school program.