Our Curriculum is STEAM Inspired
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.
Our Educational Programs
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.
Our Curriculum
Art
For younger children, the addition of the “A” or art in STEAM offers an opportunity to tie together STEM concepts in ways that are interesting and meaningful through projects and activities: creative problem solving, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and digital photography.
Literacy
STEAM curriculum will also focus on literacy development, an essential component of early education, by tying STEM to activities to key areas such as reading, vocabulary development, and oral language.
Science
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.
Physical Education
Our grade school’s PE program provides students with a positive learning environment where each student is given the opportunity to feel empowered through fitness and sport. Activities are centered on skill development, lifetime fitness concepts, team building and cooperative learning.
Mathematics
Bedford Academy provides a highly individualized learning program for every student. You’ll witness all your students improve with self‑paced lessons that fill in gaps, move them forward and provide challenges so that they experience success at every stage.
Social Science
Essential to a child’s education is the development of the knowledge needed to make informed and thoughtful decisions for the public good as democratic citizens in a culturally diverse world. At Bedford Academy, children begin developing this knowledge in Preschool and then, more formally in social studies class in Kindergarten and across the Lower School.
Our Faculty & Staff
Through our innovative academic programs and STEAM-inspired curriculum, Bedford Academy fosters a safe and nurturing environment in which children, Pre-K through Grade 5, engage in experiences that promote the school’s core values of inquiry, innovation, compassion, leadership, and academic excellence.
- Safe & Nurturing Environment – Establish a safe and nurturing space for all students to develop and realize their academic, athletic and physical, artistic, musical, and socio-emotional capacities.
- Quality Faculty & Staff – Attract, retain, and support highly qualified early educators dedicated to student success.
- STEAM Curriculum – Engage students in a standards-based, integrated, multidisciplinary STEAM-inspired curriculum that promotes Bedford Academy’s core values of inquiry, innovation, compassion, leadership, and academic excellence.
- Positive School Culture – Foster a positive, school culture in which all students display respect and compassion for each other.
- Collaborative Partnership – Establish a meaningful, collaborative partnership between teachers, administration, and parents that promotes student achievement.