Explore Curriculum, Beyond the Books and Episcopal Values at the Middle School at HIES
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Beyond the Books in the Middle School
- Think Tanks
- Global Games
- Focus Days
- Global Travel
- PRIME Time
- Community Service
- Seventh Grade Overnight Retreat
- Clubs
Think Tanks
Open to all Middle School students, the Middle School Think Tanks occur on two Saturdays of the year. Students show up on campus with no idea of what challenging task will enfold. Ranging from "designing and marketing a 'brain juice' smoothie" to "how to protect the school from an alien invasion," students are asked to devise creative and innovative solutions for these intellectually stimulating adventures.
Global Games
These three Global games—Globalliance, Hunt for the Trust and The Colonial Games, ask students to implement critical thinking skills, their passions and interests, creativity, leadership capabilities and teamwork muscles in this alternate world where they lead nations, solve problems and evaluate those solutions. Each Game is unique in design. Globalliance: Think "The Amazing Race" meets Model United Nations. Hunt for the Trust is modeled on a National Treasure styled adventure and The Colonial Games is a mashup of Hunger Games and The Settlers of Catan—may the odds be ever in your favor!
Focus Days
Global Travel
The mission of the Global Education program at HIES is to cultivate students who have the knowledge, dispositions and skills to act ethically and creatively in the world. It is an education of compassion and conscience, centered on the human dignity inherent in our relationships with family and community, both locally and abroad.
PRIME Time
The PRIME Time program is an opportunity for us to provide character education to our Middle School students with a focus on social/emotional wellness, academic skill building, digital citizenship and service learning. PRIME Time will also give us an opportunity to introduce the RoundSquare framework with a focus on the twelve discoveries.
PRIME stands for Promoting Responsibility In Multiple Endeavors. Middle school is the time when students really start to take responsibility for their education and become intentional citizens of their school, local and global communities. Their world gets bigger in Middle School, so they need to learn how to manage their time, their studies, their emotions, their friendships and family relationships, their responsibilities and their fun.
Community Service
Community Service is more than a graduation requirement at HIES. At HIES we believe you are never too young to make a difference in your community and the world. Service Learning in the Middle School starts with a class in the sixth grade. Beginning in eighth grader, and expanding in Upper School, students are required to complete and document five hours of community service during the year.
Seventh Grade Overnight Retreat
Clubs
Clubs and organizations are an integral part of student life in Middle School at HIES. The Middle School offers 23 different clubs and each student will participate in multiple clubs through the school year, rotating on a trimester basis.
The great variety of clubs and organizations exist to provide students with opportunities to continue their education outside of the classroom and to build community around common interest. Involvement in organizations is a great way to enhance social skills, problem-solving, leadership qualities and other important life skills. Leaders of clubs and organizations play an important role in helping students build relationships and strengthen their connection to the entire HIES Community.
Reading Bowl Club
Chess/Cards Club
STEAM Club
Lego Mindstorm Club
eSports. Club
Juggling Club
Zen/Yoga/Meditation Club
Ping Pong Club
Mindful Living Club
Paracord Club
Animal Welfare/Critter Club
PR/Communications Club
Art Club
History Club
Service Club
Discovery Club
Trivia Club
Magazine/Journalism Club
Book Club
Fitness/Zumba Club
Origami Club
Board Game Club
Spirit Club
Episcopal School Values in the Middle School
Chapel
At a Holy Innocents’ chapel service, each student is called to celebrate and share the radical loving presence of God, as we gather together in prayer. In essence, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School is a praying school! We are a school community of faith that encounters the Living God through the proclamation and sharing of His Word in all divisions. We pray for ourselves; we pray for one another; we pray for the world, and we pray especially that the good gifts we have received will empower us to be a blessing to others.
The entire Middle School gathers each week as a community to reflect on what it means to be children of God, to be good citizens, to act in service to others and to live out our individual faith traditions. Chapel services affirm both our Christian traditions and religious diversity. The Middle School chaplain leads chapel services, often with the help of the students themselves and parents are welcomed to attend.
Community Service
PRIME Time
The PRIME Time program is an opportunity for us to provide character education to our Middle School students with a focus on social/emotional wellness, academic skill building, digital citizenship and service learning. PRIME Time will also give us an opportunity to introduce the RoundSquare framework with a focus on the twelve discoveries.
PRIME stands for Promoting Responsibility In Multiple Endeavors. Middle school is the time when students really start to take responsibility for their education and become intentional citizens of their school, local and global communities. Their world gets bigger in Middle School, so they need to learn how to manage their time, their studies, their emotions, their friendships and family relationships, their responsibilities and their fun.