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. Further, children will showcase their creations in monthly STEAM nights where families, teachers, administration, and staff will come together as community.
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. Key elements in PE for students in grades Pre-K to Grade 2 include learning important movement foundations such as locomotor moves, throwing, catching, kicking and striking, as well as building important teamwork skills. Key elements for students in grades 3-5 include learning various types of dance, the basics of team sports, positive conflict resolution methods and various elements of physical fitness.
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.