2025-2026 Curriculum

This course provides students a foundational understanding of early American history.

This course is designed to foster a basic understanding of ceramics materials with a hands-on approach.

In this course, students learn the fundamentals of the four language modalities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in the Chinese language using the Pinyin Romanization system and simplified characters.

In this course, students continue the study of listening, speaking, reading and writing begun in Chinese 1A.

If you can create technology, you can change the world.

This semester course offers eighth-grade students the opportunity to explore the elementary level of modern and jazz techniques.

This course explores how patterns, colors, and shapes are used mindfully to communicate in the media and different forms of visual art. 

This course explores how students can use the tools of digital art to both artistically document and express themselves.

This course is designed to lay the foundation of intellectual habits and academic skills that students need in order to read a variety of texts with confidence, appreciation, comprehension and critical insight, and to write and speak in a variety of modes.

This course focuses on developing the fundamental skills of critical reading, creative and expository writing, vocabulary and grammar.

In anticipation of English I, students build reading independence and write longer compositions, deepening their creative and analytical thinking through a variety of written responses to texts.

This beginning course in computer science introduces students to the basic computer programming constructs while giving them the fundamental concepts of computer science.

In this course, students learn the fundamentals of the four language modalities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in the French language.

In this course, students continue to build proficiency and confidence in the four language modalities (speaking, listening, reading and writing).

The sixth-grade history curriculum is designed to foster curiosity for the ancient world through inquiry-based learning.

This course is designed to introduce students to the engaging and enriching musical experience centered around the exciting world of jazz.

This course covers material equivalent to the first semester of the Latin I upper school course.

This course is a continuation of Latin IA and covers material equivalent to the second semester of the Latin I upper school course.

This course is designed to consolidate student understanding of arithmetic while developing the organization, communication and problem-solving skills necessary for further study of mathematics.

This course emphasizes problem solving and is designed to prepare students for success in the enriched track in subsequent years.

This course prepares students for the study of algebra and is designed to nurture the growth of an individual as a problem solver, as well as to help them become comfortable and confident with the tools and techniques that are needed to master algebra.

Like Math 2, this course prepares students for the study of algebra, but it is more demanding, considering a greater number of problem types, and providing less instruction and support before homework is assigned.

Math 3 is the first course in the integrated Algebra I/Geometry/Algebra II sequence.

Math 3E is problem-centered, but is more demanding than Math 3, considering a greater number of problem types.

In addition to PE class, students may choose to do one of the following during their X period: sport, study hall or arts class.

The focus of this semester course, which is team-taught by Performing Arts faculty, is the production of a musical revue.

In this course, students learn the skills necessary to build stage sets and props, sew basic costumes, and create stage lighting and sound.

The department presents a varied and flexible program in which students develop physical fitness, physical skills and socially desirable habits of good sportsmanship and teamwork, as well as an interest in recreational activities.

This course offers students the opportunity to learn and apply mathematical, scientific, engineering and computer programming skills through robot design and construction.

The sixth-grade science curriculum is designed to lay the foundation of intellectual character and academic skills that students need to productively engage with questions, problems, uncertainties and enigmas through science and engineering.

The seventh-grade science curriculum focuses on life science as it relates to humans and the environment.

This course explores the question, “How are we connected to the natural world?”

The Seventh Grade Art Rotation emphasizes joyful skill building and creative expression in all of our art disciplines.

Sixth Grade Art Rotation introduces students to varied means of artistic expression in a safe and exploratory environment.

Social Studies 7 is designed to help students learn to think like social scientists and geographers as they develop 21st-century skills that help them investigate our world.

In this course, students learn the fundamentals of the four language modalities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in the Spanish language.

In this course, students continue to build proficiency and confidence in the four language modalities (speaking, listening, reading and writing).

This course is designed to expose students to a variety of materials and techniques in art-making, allowing them to develop their drawing, painting and art-making skills.

In this course, students learn the skills necessary to construct stage sets and props, create simple costumes, develop stage lighting, and participate in the design of sets, props and costumes for the spring middle school production. 

Sixth-grade students rotate through five introductory modules devoted to each of the four languages taught at Bishop’s (Chinese, French, Latin and Spanish) and one Adventure module. 

This course introduces students to the origins of five of the world’s major religious and philosophical traditions and the cultures that produced them.