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The Village School of Naples
DISCOVERING, SHARING, PRAYING, PLAYING |
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Life Skills The Life Skills course in an integrated exploratory program to provide students with hands-on activities, guest speakers, and opportunities to model skill areas related to self-knowledge, family life, occupations, and career planning. These skill areas include: people skills (relationships), time management, thinking skills, space organizational skills, life navigation skills, home management, money management, healthy habits, and parenting. The course introduces students to career exploration and appropriate paths to the students’ fields of interest. The overall goal is an emphasis on independence and character qualities related to these life skills.
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Spanish The Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages at The Village School consists of faculty who study and teach the language, culture, and literature of the Spanish speaking countries of Europe and the Americas. As scholars, the school is dedicated to engaging in significant research on Spanish and Spanish-American literature, linguistics and culture.
The mission of the class is to furnish the students with the intellectual and communicative tools necessary to live and interact effectively in a bilingual world. This is to be achieved in a safe environment with a strong Christian perspective. In keeping with the intellectual aspect of this mission, the students are engaged in the processes of critical reading and writing, taking as the objectives of study the literary and linguistic heritage of Spain and Latin America. To develop students’ communicative skills, they are provided programs that assist them in acquiring and refining the ability to speak/converse, read and write the Spanish language.
Middle school students have the opportunity to take beginning, intermediate, and high school Spanish prior to graduation.
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Music Orchestra and band are offered to the middle school students. Students learn about various types of string and band instruments. Learning notes, reading music, and discovering the history of music makes this class come alive.
Music for Me For fifth and sixth grade students not enrolled in orchestra or band, Music for Me is offered.
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Physical Education In the upper grades, students recognize that physical activity provides enjoyment and allows for the development of leadership abilities and responsibilities while learning the skills necessary for team sport participation.
World Religion Sixth grade students have the opportunity to enroll in World Religions being taught by a NNUMC pastor.
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Technology Fifth and sixth grade technology classes focus on Office Suite 2007. Fifth graders focus on Word and PowerPoint while sixth graders focus on Publisher and Excel.
Seventh graders participate in the Vilage School Productions, which is the preparation and production of a quarterly school wide Chapel time.
Eight graders can enroll in the journalism class and are responsible for the design and creation of the school's yearbook, The Legacy.
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