At Bedford Academy, we recognize every child is unique and possesses potential for success across multiple dimensions such as academic, athletic, interpersonal, musical, and artistic. Our programs have been designed to educate the whole child and are based on the most current research. Through an innovative, multi-disciplinary, student-centered STEAM-inspired curriculum, children engage in rich, learning experiences that promote Bedford Academy’s core values of innovation, inquiry, academic excellence, compassion, fitness and well-being, and leadership.
Our facility is structured to support this curriculum and as such, we have created spaces for children to collaborate and create in an open concept innovation lab that houses a multitude of technology and resources. We invite your child to spend the day with us and experience our unique and innovative curriculum. Some of our program highlights that your family will observe include the following:
At Bedford Academy, we recognize every child is unique and possesses potential for success across multiple dimensions such as academic, athletic, interpersonal, musical, and artistic. Our programs have been designed to educate the whole child and are based on the most current research. Through an innovative, multi-disciplinary, student-centered STEAM-inspired curriculum, children engage in rich, learning experiences that promote Bedford Academy’s core values of innovation, inquiry, academic excellence, compassion, fitness and well-being, and leadership.
Our facility is structured to support this curriculum and as such, we have created spaces for children to collaborate and create in an open concept innovation lab that houses a multitude of technology and resources. We invite your child to spend the day with us and experience our unique and innovative curriculum. Some of our program highlights that your family will observe include the following:
A Place Where Children Thrive
As part of Bedford Academy’s early education programs, children engage in inquiry-based learning activities designed to foster their natural curiosity while providing the foundational skills needed to develop creative solutions to complex problems. Threaded throughout all curriculums are experiences that provide children the opportunity to explore, question, investigate, and reflect. In the Innovation Lab, children engage in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) activities designed to connect academic concepts and practical applications so that learning is meaningful to children’s everyday lives.
An abundance of research and evidence highlights that most critical brain development in children occurs before they enter kindergarten. Consequently, Bedford Academy has developed programs that lay the foundation for your child’s academic success. Through our innovative, STEAM-inspired curriculum, children engage in rich, developmentally appropriate learning activities across all subjects that promote their interests, critical thinking, and academic excellence.
At Bedford Academy, we recognize the crucial importance of developing children’s socio-emotional capacities. Our curriculum emphasizes emotional literacy facilitating the development of keyskills: establish and maintain positive relationships, become independent thinkers, and empathize with others. All program experiences focus on helping children develop into compassionate citizens empowered to lead and solve the problems of the future.
Through our innovative academic programs and STEAM-inspired curriculum, Bedford Academy fosters a safe and nurturing environment in which children, Pre-school through Grade 5, engage in experiences that promote the school’s core values of inquiry, innovation, compassion, leadership, and academic excellence.
Experience the Difference
Every child is unique and possesses potential for success across multiple dimensions such as academic, athletic, interpersonal, musical, and artistic. In alignment with Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory, Bedford Academy’s innovative program will engage children in experiences that will help develop their own personal abilities and talents. This begins with getting to know each child individually and developing a personalized pathway through Bedford Academy’s innovative offerings that fosters these capacities. Prior to beginning the school year, teachers will meet with individual families with the aim of collaboratively developing a growth plan that will be the foundation for a child’s experience in the program. Then, through mid and end of term feedback and conferences, families will reflect on this growth path and as needed make adjustments to ensure children receive the support and guidance they need to realize their potential.
At Bedford Academy we believe in Pedagogical instruction in which children are active learners and engaged in exploration, investigation, and problem solving makes learning meaningful. Thus, across all grade levels, instruction will actively engage children in their learning via strategies such as project-based learning. Further, given the technological landscape of the 21st century, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge has emerged as essential for the future success of today’s children. Beginning in the Primary School and continuing to the Lower School, Bedford Academy will utilize a STEAM-inspired curriculum. Based on the grade level, children will engage daily in STEAM activities that tie together learning to the relevant standards-based, core topics, themes, or units. This integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and learning will include opportunities to engage with the engineering design cycle, collaborate and communicate with their peers, and make connections across subject areas.
A key component of achieving the mission and vision of Bedford Academy is providing teachers and students the resources required to successfully enact a STEAM-inspired curriculum. As such, Bedford Academy will provide a dedicated space for teachers to utilize innovative technology and for children to engage with age-appropriate technology. The space will be designed to include collaborative workspaces and project areas so that children work together as they create and develop new ideas and solutions to engineering challenges. In addition, the Innovation Center will serve as a library or multi-media area and provide students access to printed resources and texts necessary for the research phase of the engineering design cycle and literacy development in the curriculum.
An important part of all children’s development is physical and mental well-being. Benefits associated with physical activity for elementary age children include improved focus and problem-solving ability, increased retention of information, and reduced stress and anxiety. In addition, the overall health benefits are numerous. Thus, as part of Bedford Academy’s program, children in the Primary School will begin their day with music and movement time and then, engage in daily recess time in an age-appropriate, fully equipped, fenced playground area. Kindergarten and Lower School children will also engage on a daily basis in structured physical education time that include manipulative activities such as jump rope, low organization games, gymnastics movements, and development of sportsmanship and fair game play. In addition, children will have the option of engaging in morning yoga prior to the beginning of school in Bedford Academy’s indoor fitness room. During this time, children will also learn mindfulness strategies as means for how to recognize and react positively to their thoughts, emotions, and actions.
As part of ensuring students are provided the support needed to navigate their personalized pathway and meet the goals of their growth plan, Bedford Academy will establish a space for specialized academic services. More specifically, in this space, Bedford Academy will offer individual sessions in literacy, mathematics, and development of academic skills. In addition, The Learning Center will also be a space for all students to engage on a weekly basis in small group reading and writing workshops as part of literacy development
Threaded across the curriculum and reflected in all decisions and activities will be development of a culture of compassion and respect for others. Curriculum for all grade levels will integrate activities to address character development. In addition, integrated across the academic year are activities and events that will provide the opportunity for community building and character modeling.
Experience the Difference
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