Core Academic Program
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St. Joan of Arc's academic curriculum is based on well-founded and thoroughly tested educational methods. Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory is a strong point of our faculty. Numerous in-service and yearlong projects have been implemented in our quest to teach to each child's strength. A wide variety of activities in each grade level afford every child the chance to thrive in a learning environment that emphasizes their intelligences. The curriculum offers instruction in the following core areas:
- Religion: Understanding the Mass, Sacraments: understanding, preparing and receiving, Old Testament, New Testament, Theology, Lives of Saints & The teachings of Jesus Christ
- Language Arts: phonics, reading, grammar, literature, spelling, handwriting and composition
- Mathematics: arithmetic, pre-algebra, algebra
- Social Studies: U.S. History, Pennsylvania History, World Cultures
- Science: all students participate in the science curriculum. Students in the fifth through the eighth grades submit a science project yearly and the 7th and 8th grade students take part in the PJAS (Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science).