
Give your children a Classical Christian Hybrid Education
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 was 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 Liberal Arts Tradition by Clark & Jain.
A Christian Education
We are a ministry of Christ the Foundation Anglican Church in Kailua, Hawaii governed by a board of trustees. 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. 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 aren’t members of Christ the Foundation 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.
A Hybrid 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.
Our classes for the younger students end after lunch to give additional time for children to spend their afternoons doing other activities with their families, while Form II & III have an afternoon class. Our program’s curriculum is intended to be supplemented at home with additional curriculum such as math, spelling, and geography, and isn’t designed to be an exhaustive academic curriculum. All our families are homeschool families.
Academics
Currently, we have mapped-out a course of formation for 3 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 & European focus
Form III (grades 7-8): Ancient & Medieval focus
We follow a trimester 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)
Latin (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata)
Nature Studies (nature walks and projects)
Humanities (various primary source literature and history books)
Classics and Composition (WISE Guide for Spelling by Wanda Sanseri; Well Ordered Language; Plutarch; Shakespeare; Classic Myths & Literature)
Gymnasium
We do not offer classes ‘a la carte’. SBH enrolled students take all classes offered in their form.
Scheduling and Program Dues
Our program follows an academic calendar which begins the second week of August 10th, 2020 and ends the last week of May 28th, 2021. We take a have Fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Spring Breaks. We have 36 weeks of academics and instruction including three term exam weeks.
Beginning in August 2020:
Early Years Care- ages 2-5: 8am-12pm. $2625 (available for tutors’ children only)
Form I- 1st-3rd Grades: 8am-12pm. $2625
Form II- 4th-6th Grades: 8am-12pm. $3150
Form III- 7th-8th Grades: 8am-2pm. $3150
Program Dues are paid in 10 monthly installments or in larger payments to the director.