Our Program
“Saint Benedict Hall partners with families in a hybrid classical homeschool program to raise-up Christians who delight in God’s truth, goodness, and beauty.”
SBH is a three-day-a-week classical Christian collaborative education committed to in-person classes. We are a robust resource program for homeschool families giving structure, support, and learning community for our parents and students.
A Classical Education
We hold to the classical belief that education is ultimately the cultivation of wisdom and virtue. Our goal is that of the ancient educators: walking with children and their parents as they grow into men and women of character— men and women who love what is Good, True, and Beautiful.
We believe that the source of all that is good, true, and beautiful in the world is God himself, and therefore, developing a healthy and robust relationship with God is the ultimate end of our academic endeavors at Saint Benedict’s.
This doesn’t mean, however, abandoning the regular subjects of study in favor of some abstract spirituality. For God is not merely the God of all of Creation, He is also the Lord of every created thing and not a sparrow falls to the ground without His knowing. All our studies, therefore, from the sciences to humanities, can be just as academic as they are imbued with the light of the Gospel.
As Charlotte Mason explains, education is a science of relations— the point of the educational endeavor is not primarily to learn facts and skills, but develop relationships with aspects of the world we live in. We learn facts and skills as a means to develop deeper loves for God’s Creation, His story for humanity, and living in right relationship with Him.
For more information on Classical Education we suggest reading the essay Traditional vs. Progressive Education by Martin Cothran or the book The Liberal Arts Tradition by Clark & Jain.
A Christian Education
Our desire is for our students to learn to love what God loves and enjoy Him through the Good, Beautiful, and Truth found in our world. We want to see our students flourish and thrive in a gospel-centered learning community where our tutors model to our students the love of Jesus.
Our aim is to be caught up in doing life together through daily corporate prayer and the reading of Scripture, conforming our minds and lives after what God loves, and glorifying and enjoying God together. As an Anglican community, we find great joy in participating in liturgical expressions of our faith. We welcome and invite families excited about joining us in our gospel-centered community.
Even for those SBH families who don’t come from the Anglican tradition, we believe that this connection of school life with local church life gives them a unified vision for being human. So much of modern life places Sunday over and against Monday-through-Friday, or church over and against school, or rest over and against work. Anchoring ourselves in this way to the church provides an enriching model of Christian living.
We are a ministry of the Hawaii Anglican Network (HAN), a group of sister churches in the islands. We are governed by a board of trustees who are members of HAN parishes. Our learning community is an extension of Sunday worship and a continued participation in the life-giving worship of Almighty God throughout the entire week.
A Collaborative Education
We believe there is a beautiful balance that can be made between three days at “school” and two days at home. Students can have both the invigorating community of teachers and fellow classmates as well as the sweetness of home education which provides flexibility, restful quiet study, and time with family.
We believe in a strong partnership with parents in the education of their children. While Christ the Foundation provides the school with leadership, vision, and accountability, we understand that a child’s education is primarily the responsibility and role of parents as articulated in Holy Scripture (Deuteronomy 6 & Ephesians 6), and that a hybrid education partners with parents in their duty to teach and raise their children in the fear and instruction of the Lord.
We then have an optional Math Study class from 1:50-2:30pm for all students. Our program’s curriculum is intended to be supplemented at home with additional curriculum such as math, spelling, and science, and isn’t designed to be an exhaustive academic curriculum. All our families are homeschool families.
Learn more about collaborative (also known as “hybrid”) education movement here.
Academics
Currently, we have mapped-out a course of formation for 4 age-groups, which we refer to as Forms that each has a curricular focus.
Form I (grades 1-3): Hawaiian focus
Form II (grades 4-6): American & World focus
Form III (grades 7-8): Ancient & Medieval focus
Form IV (grades 9-12): European & American focus
We follow a semester schedule, and at the end of each term we have an exam week followed by a tutor-parent conference where tutors give written & verbal feedback to the parents on how their children are doing in each class.
Program Classes
Bible (Alfred Rex Curriculum and Theology in Forms 3 & 4: Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Jewel, Packer, Jordan, Leithart, etc.)
Latin (Picta Dicta & Lingua Latina per se Illustrata Curriculum)
Nature Studies (Charlotte Mason Nature Journals in Forms 1 & 2. Apologia, Novare, and Canon Press for Forms 3 & 4)
Humanities (various primary source literature and history books: i.e. Hawaiian Myths, Johnny Tremain, Story of the World, Illiad, Dante, Austen, Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, etc.)
Language Arts (All About Reading; Writing and Rhetoric; Shurley Grammar; Well Ordered Language; Poetry)
Music- School Choir
Gymnasium
Form 3-4 Elective: Drama
Form 3-4 Elective: Yearbook
We do not offer classes ‘a la carte’. SBH enrolled students take all classes offered in their form (except 11th & 12th graders).
2024-2025 Scheduling and Dues
We will meet Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 8am-2:30pm at Daybreak Church in Kailua. Our program follows an academic calendar which begins the week of August 5th, 2024 and May 28th, 2025. We take a have Fall, Christmas, Easter, and Spring Breaks. We have 38 weeks of academics and instruction including three term exam weeks.
Beginning in August 2024:
Early Years Care- ages 2-4:
$3970 (available for tutors’ children only)
Kindergarten- (must be 5 by July 31, 2024): $3970
Form 1- 1st-3rd Grades:
$3970
Form 2- 4th-6th Grades:
$3970
Form 3- 7th-8th Grades:
$3970
Form 4- 9th-12th Grades:
$4580
Program Dues can be paid in 10 monthly installments or in larger payments to the director.
Saint Benedict Hall is legally a sub-entity of Christ the Foundation.
A word from the CTF Rector
From the beginning, Christ the Foundation Anglican Church (CTF) has been committed to being a church for the next generation. Out of this commitment SBH was conceived. Being a legal entity of CTF, the church provides accountability and support to the school, while the school functions as an extension of the worshiping life of the church. As a church school, SBH helps to pass on the culture of the church, training children in a life centered on Christ through the rhythms of Anglican liturgical practice. Worship is, therefore, foundational to the educational pedagogy of the school; since worship aims our hearts at things of ultimate worth, it trains us to love all that the church calls good, true, and beautiful. In this way, the school assists parents and the whole CTF community in fulfilling their obligation to support the baptized in their life in Christ, training them in Christ’s way of love for God and for neighbor.