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English
The English Department of Trinity School believes that reading and writing are the core enterprises that make possible all intellectual growth and exploration. With that belief in mind, we employ a relatively simple pedagogical model: we ask our students to read important literature of gradually increasing complexity and depth; we discuss these texts together in a way that teaches our charges how to dig for understanding and interpretive meaning; and we ask our students to practice various modes of writing in order to learn to express themselves clearly and thoughtfully. In this way we provide our students the tools they need to explore the creative and intellectual possibilities of their world and to know themselves in it.
So we read, we discuss, we write, we read some more...and so we go. Every grade level makes its way through the year in the same manner. Every child in every class is challenged by what she is asked to read, nurtured by the collective conversation about it, and pushed to expand her particular writing capacities. Every year introduces and then reintroduces and then expands the same fundamental skills of reading and writing, reaching backward to years past and forward toward lessons to come. We teach in these dynamic loops of new idea anchored in familiar lesson because our students grow not linearly but exponentially. They grow like trees, deepening their solid foundational roots even as they grow sturdy trunks and learn to send out wild shoots that will blossom.
So we read, we discuss, we write, we read some more...and so we go. Every grade level makes its way through the year in the same manner. Every child in every class is challenged by what she is asked to read, nurtured by the collective conversation about it, and pushed to expand her particular writing capacities. Every year introduces and then reintroduces and then expands the same fundamental skills of reading and writing, reaching backward to years past and forward toward lessons to come. We teach in these dynamic loops of new idea anchored in familiar lesson because our students grow not linearly but exponentially. They grow like trees, deepening their solid foundational roots even as they grow sturdy trunks and learn to send out wild shoots that will blossom.
Located on the Upper West Side of New York City, Trinity School is a college preparatory, coeducational independent school for grades K-12. Since 1709, Trinity has provided a world-class education to its students with rigorous academics and outstanding programs in athletics, the arts, peer leadership, and global travel.